Thoughts and Feelings, 4ed: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life

You may struggle with anxiety and depression, or feel that procrastination or perfectionism is holding you back. Regardless of the issue, you’ve come to this book with a desire to change your thoughts and feelings for the better. This classic self-help workbook offers powerful cognitive therapy tools for making that happen.

Now in its fourth edition, Thoughts and Feelings provides you with twenty evidence-based techniques that can be combined to create a personal treatment plan for overcoming a range of mental health concerns, including worry, panic attacks, depression, low self-esteem, anger, and emotional and behavioural challenges of any kind. Customise your plan to address multiple concerns at once, or troubleshoot the thoughts and feelings that bother you most. Used and recommended by the most renowned and respected therapists, this comprehensive mental health workbook offers all of best psychological tools for quickly regaining mastery over your moods and emotions. This endlessly useful guide has helped thousands of readers:

• Challenge self-sabotaging patterns of thinking
• Practice relaxation techniques to maintain self-control in stressful situations
• Change the core beliefs that drive painful emotions
• Identify and prioritise their values for a more focused, fulfilling life

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Acknowledgments

How to Use This Book

1: Making Your Own Treatment Plan

2: Uncovering Automatic Thoughts

3: Changing Patterns of Limited Thinking

4: Changing Hot Thoughts

5: Relaxation

6: Worry Control

7: Coping with Panic

8: Coping Imagery

9: Mindfulness

10: Defusion

11: Getting Mobilized

12: Putting Values into Action

13: Brief Exposure

14: Prolonged Exposure

15: Testing Core Beliefs

16: Changing Core Beliefs with Visualization

17: Stress Inoculation for Anger Control

18: Covert Modeling

19: Covert Sensitization

20: Problem Solving

21: When It Doesn’t Come Easy

References and Resources