Book Title:
30 Days 30 Ways to Overcome Anxiety.
Author(s): Bev Aisbett.
Year: 2019.
Edition: First (1st).
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers.
Type(s): Paperback and Audio CD.
Synopsis:
Outlines a thirty day programme to overcoming anxiety, with daily exercises and mantras to help readers manage the emotion.
Book Title:
The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques.
Author(s): Margaret Wehrenberg.
Year: 2018.
Edition: Second (2nd).
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
The newly updated workbook companion for putting the top anxiety management techniques into practice, first edition released in 2008.
Brimming with exercises, worksheets, tips, and tools, this complete how-to workbook companion expands on the top 10 anxiety-busting techniques Margaret Wehrenberg presents in the earlier edition of this book, showing readers exactly how to put them into action.
From panic disorders, generalised anxiety, and social anxiety, to overall worry and stress, manifestations of anxiety are among the most common – and often debilitating – mental health complaints. But thanks to a flood of supporting brain research, effective, practical strategies have emerged that allow us to manage day-to-day anxiety on our own.
Here Dr. Wehrenberg offers us a trove of them, showing just how physical, emotional, and behavioral symptoms can be alleviated with targeted methods. Step-by-step exercises for practicing counter-cognition, mindfulness meditation, thought-stopping, and thought-replacement, “breathing minutes,” demand delays, cued relaxation, affirmations, and much, much more are presented – all guaranteed to overcome your anxious thoughts.
The accompanying audio downloads feature an array of calming, author-guided exercises including targeted breath work, muscle relaxation, mindfulness, and much more.
Book Title:
7 Principles of Stress: Extend Life, Stay Fit, and Ward off Fat. What You Didn’t Know About How Stress Can Reboot Your Mind, Energy, and Sex Life.
Author(s): Ori Hofmekler.
Year: 2017.
Edition: First (1st).
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, US.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
Ori Hofmekler, acclaimed author of The Warrior Diet and one of the first proponents of intermittent fasting, challenges conventional wisdom about diet, fitness, and anti-aging with a new approach to health that uses stress to live longer, stay fit, and ward off fat.
Supported by cutting-edge research, this book redefines the term “nutrition” as it reveals the stress-mimicking nutrients that yield the same benefits as fasting and exercising.
At the core of the book is the biology of stress and the way it affects key aspects of life from feeding and sexual behavior to mental and physical performance. Hofmekler demonstrates that that there is a thin line between beneficial stress and harmful stress, and shows how to put knowledge of the difference into powerful practice.
His book is a call to action – a manifesto of living life to its utmost evolutionary potential, under stress, as nature intended.
Book Title:
Your Anxiety Beast and You – A Compassionate Guide to Living in an Increasingly Anxious World.
Author(s): Eric Goodman, PhD.
Year: 2020.
Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.
Publisher: Exisle Publishing.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
Just like The Beast in the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, anxiety is an emotion that society initially misjudges as the villain. Your Anxiety Beast and You is a kinder, more compassionate approach for people suffering from anxiety. Rather than living with an enemy inside your mind, you are encouraged to see anxiety for what it really is – an inner hero. It is always trying to protect you from threats, however, it is completely confused about what are true threats in the modern world.
Learn how to cope with your anxiety and train it to be a better inner-companion through integrating therapeutic methods from compassion-focused therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Gain an understanding of why society stigmatises anxiety and gain a better understanding of your own anxiety beast with humour and compassion. Your Anxiety Beast and You takes you through step-by-step strategies to cope with the howling of the beast in your mind, the physical effects of anxiety on your body, and then focuses on ways to come up with ‘teachable moments’ for your anxiety to learn that what you fear is not actually a threat.
With over 25 years of experience helping people with anxiety disorders and OCD, Dr Goodman aims to help you make peace with the reality of your anxiety. And then to help you re-focus on making your anxiety a better companion.
Book Title:
Why Can’t I Stop?: Reclaiming Your Life from a Behavioral Addiction (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book).
Author(s): Jon E. Grant, Brian L. Odlaug, and Samuel R. Chamberlain.
Year: 2016.
Edition: First (1st).
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press.
Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.
Synopsis:
At some point in our lives, we all engage in behaviours that are risky, irrational, or unwise. We might find it exciting and temporarily rewarding to gamble on the lottery or impulsively buy an expensive gadget. But just as substances like alcohol and narcotics have the potential to become addictive, so do certain behaviours. A person addicted to gambling, shopping, the internet, food, or picking at their skin may suffer shame in the shadows while their behaviour consumes time and energy and disrupts their life. Some people with behavioural addictions lose their family, job, savings, and home. With a physical basis in the brain, behavioural addictions are serious illnesses – but simply willing yourself to stop is usually not enough.
Why Can’t I Stop? is for anyone who has a behavioural addiction, as well as their supportive families and friends. Examining seven of the most common and serious addictions – gambling, sex, stealing, internet use, shopping and buying, hair pulling and skin picking, and food – the authors bring together cutting-edge research to describe behavioural addiction, its causes, and how it can be diagnosed and treated.
Featuring patient stories of behavioural addiction and recovery, as well as information about treatment centres, this compassionate guide will help readers better understand the complicated issues surrounding these addictions and teach family members how to help the addicted person while helping themselves.
Book Title:
Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health.
Author(s): Anne Claveirole and Martin Gaughan (Editors).
Year: 2010.
Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health has been designed to help the student and newly qualified health care professional to familiarise themselves with the key theoretical frameworks underpinning the field of children and young people’s mental health.
It explores the mental health challenges that children and young people face, and how we as adults can work alongside them to help them face and overcome such challenges.
This book provides comprehensive information on the theory and practice of particular mental health difficulties which children and young people may have to face, including self-harm, depression, suicide, child abuse, eating disorders, substance misuse, and early onset psychosis.
Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health is essential reading for pre-registration students in nursing and healthcare on child and mental health branches, and for newly qualified nursing, health and social care practitioners who work with children and young people.
Book Title:
Training Trances – Multi-Level Communication in Therapy and Training.
Author(s): John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn.
Year: 1995.
Edition: Third (3rd).
Publisher: Metamorphous Press.
Type(s): Paperback.
Synopsis:
Training Trances is about how to therapeutically communicate with the unconscious mind. The authors present their own unique integration of Ericksonian techniques, traditional models of hypnotherapy, and recent research in related areas. Numerous new patterns modeled from the work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. are clearly explained and demonstrated. The use of trance in training design, to unconsciously install the skills being taught to the participants, is also covered.
The book developed from transcripts of a four day workshop, and the design of the book parallels the design chosen for the training itself. Individual exercises or those done in groups of two or three are offered so that the reader may practice the techniques and learn the skills.
There are numerous “live” demonstrations, inductions, and double inductions which create for the reader a real “feel” of how hypnosis is done and which are also a rich source for linguistic analysis for the advanced reader.
Written with insight and humor, this book’s most unique twist is its use of multi-level communication and hypnotic language to create a “training trance” for the readers as they journey through the text. Some hypnotic references are obvious and explicit – those which are not obvious will create enjoyable “ah-ha!” experiences for the reader as they are discovered.
Book Title:
Together Apart – The Psychology of COVID-19.
Author(s): Jolanda Jetten, Stephen D. Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Tegan Cruwys.
Year: 2020.
Edition: First (1st).
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
Written by leading social psychologists with expertise in leadership, health and emergency behaviour – who have also played an important role in advising governments on COVID-19 – this book provides a broad but integrated analysis of the psychology of COVID-19
It explores the response to COVID-19 through the lens of social identity theory, drawing from insights provided by four decades of research. Starting from the premise that an effective response to the pandemic depends upon people coming together and supporting each other as members of a common community, the book helps us to understand emerging processes related to social (dis)connectedness, collective behaviour and the societal effects of COVID-19. In this it shows how psychological theory can help us better understand, and respond to, the events shaping the world in 2020.
Considering key topics such as:
This book offers the foundation on which future analysis, intervention and policy can be built.
Book Title:
The ACT Workbook for OCD: Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Exposure Skills to Live Well with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Author(s): Marisa T. Mazza.
Year: 2020.
Edition: First (1st), Workbook Edition.
Publisher: New Harbinger.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
Stand up to your OCD! The ACT Workbook for OCD combines evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP) for the most up-to-date, effective treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
If you are one of the millions of people who suffer from OCD, you may experience obsessive, intrusive, or even disturbing thoughts. You may engage in compulsive or ritualistic behaviours, such as checking to make sure you have locked the front door, or endlessly washing your hands for fear of germs or contamination. And you may be tempted to give up if treatment just does not work for you.
Whether you have just received a diagnosis, or have suffered for years, this workbook can help. Using the powerful and proven-effective treatments in this guide, you will learn what type of OCD you suffer from (such as harm OCD), how to identify the underlying mechanisms of your OCD, move through triggering incidents while staying present and connected to your values, be more aware and flexible, tolerate uncertainty, and commit to behaviours that ultimately allow you to lead a full, rewarding life.
Once you realise what really matters to you, you will find the motivation needed to start on the path to psychological well-being.
If you are ready to be courageous, take a risk, and stand up to your OCD symptoms, this workbook can help guide you, every step of the way.
Book Title:
The Stress Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Worry Less, Develop Grit, and Live Your Best Life (The Instant Help Solutions Series).
Author(s): Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD.
Year: 2019.
Edition: First (1st), Illustrated Edition.
Publisher: Instant Help.
Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.
Synopsis:
Is stress getting the best of you? Do you ever feel overwhelmed, like your life is zooming by? This practical, proven-effective, and easy-to-use survival guide has your back!
School pressure, BFF drama, body changes, social media, dating – is it any wonder you are feeling stressed? You are not alone. Many teens today find themselves worried, anxious, and stressed out. But there are ways you can take control of your stress before it interferes with your life. This go-to “survival guide” will show you how to deal with stress so you can get back to the things that make you happy.
With this fun and easy guide, you will learn how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help you challenge negative thoughts and replace them with more helpful, flexible ways of seeing life’s challenges. You will also discover how important it is to slow down and notice the things that are really going well in your life! Finally, you will learn to figure out what is really important to you, and how you can use your values to build resilience against stress and future setbacks.
Life is full of stress, but that does not mean you have to be. With this book, you will learn to quiet your negative inner voice and focus on your strengths, so you can conquer any challenge you might face, achieve your goals, and live your very best life.
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