Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning
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:
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