Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131784 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 436 pages

Synopsis
This classic, best-selling workbook on anxiety and phobia explains cognitive-behavioural techniques in a step-by-step format. Widely recommended by therapists and other mental health professionals, this new edition has been substantially revised and updated to reflect new developments in the field of anxiety treatment that have appeared in the past five years. It includes an updated list of resources and web sites offering help for coping with anxiety disorders.

From the Author
Practical and comprehensive help for anxiety disorders
The ANXIETY & PHOBIA WORKBOOK is a practical and comprehensive guide offering help to anyone who is struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or other anxiety disorders. Step-by-step guidelines, questionnaires, and exercises will help you learn skills and make lifestyle changes necessary to achieve a lasting recovery. The workbook can be used to develop you own self-help program or as an adjunct to therapy. A partial list of topics includes: causes of anxiety disorders, relaxation, exercise, coping with panic, real-life desensitization, overcoming negative self-talk, changing mistaken beliefs, visualization, expressing feelings, assertiveness, self-esteem, nutrition, and medication.

For a range of new appraoches to overcoming anxiety which supplement the WORKBOOK, see the author's recent book, HEALING FEAR.

Customer Reviews

Something for Everyone
A lot of self-help books are hit or miss because they give you one or two strategies for solving a problem. Not so with this book- that's because its a workbook. This means the book takes a problem, and gives you MANY different strategies and ways of solving it. I'm a big fan of workbooks, simply because there's something for everyone. If you don't like strategy "A", well, then just move on and try strategy "B" or "C". Here's a few more specifics about the book...

-you take a self diagnosis questionnaire to help you identify which anxiety disorder you may be dealing with

-you will learn about the causes of anxiety disorders, including triggers and maintaining causes

-the book proposes a multi-level comperehensive approach that addresses different levels of contributing causes (physical, emotional, behavioral, mental, interpersonal, whole-self, and spiritual

-you can use the weekly practice records to monitor your own program

-the bulk of the book is esentially a bunch of strategies that you can choose from, such as breathing exercises, desensitization, physical exercise (also recommend Exercise Beats Depression for more on that), self-talk, and visualization

As you can see, the book takes a very comprehensive approach to getting the reader better and most are bound to find at least find one or two techniques that will really hit the nail on the head. Five stars easy.

concise,practical and worth every penny.
Having gradually deteriorated over a period of time and following a major trauma I found that I was in a permanent state of anxiety and suffering from frequent panic attacks.This book was recommended to me by a therapist from the Priory Hospital Group which have an excellent reputation in dealing with patients with psychiatric problems.I found that the book was concise,well thought out and provided the reader with,not only advice but a practical framework, based on logic, for identifying and addressing the problems caused by various anxiety disorders.Working through it has made me challenge my negative thinking based on distorted "core beliefs" and helped me replace them with more realistic and positive ones which are based on real evidence which stand up to close scrutiny.

Excellent, Easy to Follow and Really Helpful
I would highly recommend this book to anyone suffering from any form of anxiety, panic, phobia or OCD disorders. The information given is clear and precise and thought provoking. A must for anyone who feels they need help but are unable to seek help professionally. The workbook questionnaires if answered truthfully help you to understand that you have an illness and are not losing control or going crazy.