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How to…Do Imagery Rescripting
An online guide for your reading by Rachel Manser.
Unlock the full potential of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with our expertly crafted How to Guides. Designed to help CBT therapists refine specific procedural microskills, these guides are essential for enhancing treatment outcomes within the framework of a well-developed formulation, clear therapy goals, and a strong therapeutic alliance grounded in collaborative empiricism. How to... Do Imagery Rescripting by Rachel Manser offers comprehensive details to help you master and improve you... READ MORE
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Bipolar Disorder: Managing Mood Swings
Rachel Manser & Helen Close
Discover practical CBT strategies to understand and stabilise mood changes. Managing Mood Swings is ideal for self-help or therapy support.
Although we all experience changes in our moods, sometimes these can be severe and cause difficulties in our lives. This booklet uses cognitive behavioural principles to help understand what causes and maintains these mood changes. Although the title of the booklet mentions bipolar disorder, the booklet is designed to be useful to anyone who would like to better understand their significant changes in mood and learn strategies to manage. The strategies provided give tried and trusted cognitiv... READ MORE
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CBT Supervision
Helen Kennerley
Supervision is increasingly regarded as crucial in developing and maintaining adequate standards of CBT and there is an increased expectation that clinicians are offered sound support and guidance. This OCTC guide for clinicians will help you to develop as a CBT supervisor by introducing you to contemporary principles, frameworks and research along with a review of well-established principles of good practice and competencies in supervision. Helen Kennerley is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist ... READ MORE
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Making sense of military trauma
Martina Mueller and Paul Andrews
Whilst traumatic events can happen to anyone at any time, military deployments to conflict zones make this much more likely. Afterwards it can be hard to make sense of the experience particularly for a group of people who are used to self-reliance, minimizing and boxing things off. These strategies do work in the short term, but they don’t tend to be good long-term solutions. This booklet is co-written by a clinician and a former soldier and offers serving military personnel, veterans and... READ MORE
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An Introduction to Managing Psychosis
Rachel Manser and Louise Isham
Psychosis is a broad term that includes fears that others are going to harm us, hearing voices which distress us, and low mood, amongst many other experiences. This booklet provides information and ideas from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help understand the distress we can feel and what can be done to help. It includes sections on understanding difficulties, immediate coping strategies, managing worry and sleep, improving our mood and planning for the future and provides tried and test... READ MORE
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Keep safe and carry on: coping with suicidal feelings
Khadija Rouf
Suicidal feelings are not uncommon and in the extreme, people may feel that they have no alternative but to act on these. This booklet shows that there is hope for recovery by managing suicidal feelings in a range of ways. Based on the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy, it contains strategies from current research and best clinical practice. It is written to avoid jargon and can be useful to patients, family members, carers and clinicians alike. With practice, time and support, ... READ MORE
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Changing perfectionism
Sarah Egan, Roz Shafran & Tracey Wade
Perfectionism can be helpful but it can also be unhelpful. It is associated with a range of mental health problems and can interfere with many aspects of life. This booklet describes ‘clinical perfectionism’ and its link with how people evaluate themselves. It uses cognitive behavioural methods to help understand the nature of clinical perfectionism and what can be done to change it. Sarah Egan is the Director of Clinical Psychology at Curtin University, Australia and does research i... READ MORE
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MANAGING ANXIETY: A USER’S MANUAL (BOOKLET + AUDIO RELAXATION EXERCISES)
Anxiety is a common mental health problem but one which can be helped using a CBT approach. This short and easy to read booklet offers a step-by-step guide to dealing with problem worries, fears and anxieties. It first helps the user develop a better understanding of anxiety and then introduces some basic cognitive and behavioural coping skills. It is based on CBT programme which was developed over ten years and which used patient feedback to adjust and improve it. N.B. The streamable... READ MORE
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Managing Psychosis: a guide for relatives, carers & friends
Khadija Rouf, Helen Close & Kate Rosen.
Psychosis is a condition that can be very stressful for the person who has it, and for their relatives, family and friends. This guide has been written to help relatives, carers and friends to take care of their own needs, as well as supporting their relative or friend. In this booklet you will find clearly described ways of dealing with stress that has been shown to help people. There are also techniques to manage psychosis which are proven to be effective. You can use the methods expl... READ MORE
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Socratic Method
Helen Kennerley
Socratic Method is considered one of the cornerstones of CBT. It is a versatile means of helping clients develop their own understandings of, and solutions to, their problems and is a key technique in the armoury of the CBT practitioner. This brief guide for clinicians describes how to get the most out of Socratic Methods. Helen Kennerley is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with OCTC and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, and Director of the Advanced Cognitive Therapy Studies course... READ MORE
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Recovering from PTSD
Martina Mueller
Traumatic experiences (such as assaults, serious accidents, acts of terrorism and natural disasters) can happen to anyone. Recovery from such terrible events can be difficult and sometimes survivors develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a result. This is a debilitating disorder which causes people to feel frightened or overwhelmed, stuck in the past and disconnected from the present. This booklet offers trauma survivors tried and tested tools to help them recover from PTSD. Th... READ MORE
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Overcoming Phobias
Diana Sanders
Most people have some kind of phobia, such as snakes, heights or spiders. For some, the fear can cause great distress and have a significant impact on life. This booklet gives a clear step-by-step approach to treating phobias. Using well-established cognitive behaviour therapy, it shows how phobias develop, the kinds of behaviours and thoughts which keep phobias going, and how to gradually and effectively tackle the phobia. Diana Sanders is a Counselling Psychologist and Accredited Co... READ MORE
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Managing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
David Westbrook, Paul Salkovskis, Norma Morrison and Victoria Bream
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be a very troublesome condition, and according to UK guidelines cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a treatment of choice for it. In this short and easy to read guide, the authors tell you about the CBT approach to OCD and how to use CBT methods to help yourself overcome it. The booklet is aimed at giving basic information about OCD and its treatment, to help you cope alone or as a supplement to treatment with a therapist. David Westbrook was a Consult... READ MORE
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Building Self-Esteem
Helen Jenkins & Melanie Fennell
Low self-esteem is a very common problem. It can cause great unhappiness and restrict people’s lives. This practical booklet draws on an established treatment, cognitive behaviour therapy. It offers a framework for understanding how low self-esteem develops and the unhelpful thinking patterns that keep it going, and offers ideas on how to tackle the problem and how to learn to accept yourself and treat yourself with kindness. Melanie Fennell is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with... READ MORE
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Overcoming Social Anxiety
Gillian Butler
Social anxiety is a common and painful problem that makes it hard to interact comfortably with others. It can interfere with many aspects of people’s lives. This booklet explains how to overcome the problem using cognitivebehavioural methods. The ideas in it are designed to help people become less self-conscious and more confident. They are clearly described, so that they can be applied in many different situations. Many people have found that using them helps to make their social live... READ MORE
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Understanding Health Anxiety
Christine Kuchemann & Diana Sanders
Health anxiety and worry about physical symptoms is very common and distressing. Cognitive behaviour therapy can be very helpful and in this guide, Christine Kuchemann and Diana Sanders describe how to treat the problem. They describe a model of health anxiety to enable you to understand your concerns. The booklet goes through a number of methods, based on CBT, which you can use yourself or with the help of a therapist. Christine Küchemann was a clinical psychologist with Oxford Heal... READ MORE
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