An Introduction to Coping with Anxiety, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Hogan, Brenda; Brosan, Leonora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472140249 ISBN 13: 9781472140241

Publisher: Robinson, 2018

Synopsis

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Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions worldwide, affecting millions of people each year. But it can be treated effectively with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Written by experienced practitioners, this introductory book can help you if anxiety has become a problem. It explains what anxiety is and how it makes you feel when it becomes unmanageable or lasts for long periods of time. It will help you to understand your symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy. You will learn:
· What anxiety is and how it develops
· Physical symptoms to look out for
· How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious
· Ways to change how you behave in order to reduce your feelings of anxiety

About this title

About the Authors

Dr Brenda Hogan is a clinical psychologist who previously worked at the Primary Care Psychological Treatment Service in Cambridge. She has since moved to Vancouver, Canada, where she continues her work in psychological assessment and the provision of brief psychological treatment for anxiety and depression. Brenda and her colleagues have created a pioneering service in primary care based on self-help approaches to help alleviate a range of common psychological problems.

Dr Lee Brosan was a consultant clinical psychologist in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust, and Trust Lead for the development of psychological therapies. She was also clinical associate at the M.R.C. Cognition and Brain Science Unit in Cambridge and honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia. She died in 2017.

From the Back Cover

Practical support for how to overcome anxiety

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions worldwide, affecting millions of people each year. But it can be treated effectively with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Written by experienced practitioners, this introductory book can help you if anxiety has become a problem. It explains what anxiety is and how it makes you feel when it becomes unmanageable or lasts for long periods of time. It will help you to understand your symptoms and is ideal as an immediate coping strategy and as a preliminary to fuller therapy. You will learn:
· What anxiety is and how it develops
· Physical symptoms to look out for
· How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious
· Ways to change how you behave in order to reduce your feelings of anxiety

Dr Lee Brosan is a consultant psychologist with the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. Over her career she has been responsible for the development of psychological treatment services within the Trust and has taught many other people about how best to understand and use CBT. Dr Brenda Hogan is a clinical psychologist in Vancouver, Canada, working on psychological assessment and the provision of brief psychological treatment for anxiety and depression. She previously worked to create a pioneering service in primary care in Cambridge based on self-help approaches to help alleviate a range of common psychological problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Robinson
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472140249
• ISBN 13: 9781472140241
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 112