Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anxiety: Everything You Need To Know in the Least Amount of Time

30-Minute Therapy

by Matthew McKay, Troy Dufrene

If your anxiety is getting in the way of living a normal life, you need help now, rather than later. What if you could dramatically improve your anxiety symptoms in just thirty minutes? In 30-Minute Therapy for Anxiety , you’ll discover proven anxiety-busting strategies and put them into practice right away so that you can feel calm and in control, even in the most stressful situations. This set of skills will help you manage worries, panic attacks, fears, and phobias whenever they show up so you can enjoy a fuller and freer life. Read just one or all three parts of this book • Get the basics. Learn what you need to know to quickly get anxiety under control in the first section of each chapter.
• Gain a deeper understanding. Take it further and read the second section of each chapter for skills that will help you make lasting changes.
• Then, go online to practice your skills. Log on to find more exercises available online exclusively for 30-Minute Therapy for Anxiety readers.
This quick and easy-to-read to anxiety treatment offers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help you get back to living your life―without anxiety taking over.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology

136 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

About the author

Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, and author of more than 30 professional psychology and self-help books which have sold a combined total of more than 3 million copies. He is co-founder of independent self-help publisher, New Harbinger Publications. He was the clinical director of Haight Ashbury Psychological Services in San Francisco for twenty five years. He is current director of the Berkeley CBT Clinic. An accomplished novelist and poet, his poetry has appeared in two volumes from Plum Branch Press and in more than sixty literary magazines. His most recent novel, Wawona Hotel, was
published by Boaz Press in 2008.

Reviews

[Práxedes Rivera · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was without a book on hand (crisis!) so I just picked this up. It's a decent enough introduction on dealing with anxiety and I was familiar with several of the techniques discussed to minimize this feeling, namely breathing exercises, visualization, and meditation.

I don't suffer from anxiety but I am around it all the time --I am a teacher/librarian-- so it was nice to re-read the most reliable ways to deal with this affliction.

If you know nothing about anxiety this is the book for you. However if you have done prior research on this topic there is no new information here.

[Tea · Rating 5 out of 5]

This helped me to realize a lot about my own anxiety because I haven't been able to see a doctor about it yet. Useful techniques to help with all types of worries, fears, phobias, thought patterns etc ! Love it!

[Maryam]

هدفم از خرید این کتاب، داشتن یک جور جعبه کمک‌های اولیه برای اضطراب بود. یه چیزی که وقت‌ نیاز بتونی سریع از توش یک تاکتیک دربیاری و اجرا کنی. تا حد خوبی انتظارم رو برآورده کرد.

چرا فقط تا حد خوبی؟ چون این انتظار که دو دیقه‌ای مشکلات دیرینه خودمونو درمان کنیم، انتظار اشتباهی هست و فرجامی جز ناامیدی نداره. و نویسنده هم بهتر بود با عنوان click-baitش چنین قولی به خواننده نمی‌داد. ولی اگه دنبال چیزی هستی که تکنیک‌هایی که مشاورت بهت میگه رو یک جا جمع کرده باشه واگه یادت رفت بتونی مرورشون کنی، این کتاب گزینه خوبیه.

بخش اول شامل راهکارهای تنفسی و آرام‌سازی هست. بخش دوم میره سمت رفتاردرمانی شناختی و همچنین کمی پذیرش و توجه. یه بخش مختصری در مورد زندگی سالم و ورزش و خواب داره. و بخش آخر که به نظر من از همه بهتره، برگه‌های تمرین هست برای راهکارهای گفته شده.

من مال نشر ارجمند رو گرفتم با ترجمه عاطفه محمدصادق و ویراستاری دکتر پورشریفی. ترجمه و ویرایش روانی داشت.

[Georgia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a relatively useful book for sessions that involve homework for patients. I'm going to try the exercises.

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short book with many ideas in how to decrease anxiety.

[Claudia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only a few chapters really spoke to me but it's a good start to regulating my anxiety.

[Heydi Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel like I need to buy ten of these books right off the bat just so that I can start distributing them to my loved ones who could so benefit; if only they would read the and apply the practical wisdom in this book.

I love how simply everything is laid out. I love that there's continued exercises accessible for free online to further assist your efforts.

Next book, I'm thinking...patience would be a great 30 minute topic to cover. Or empathy.

[Carrie Ahmed · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this author's "chin up," approach to anxiety. He gave me more perspective as to how anxiety is reallya basic emotion and not the monster its often illustrated to being, which is half the battle. I'm definitely enjoying it and finding it beneficial 3 chapters in.

[Lizzie]

insightful

[June]

Here are some good tips for relaxation and stress reduction.

[Trey Nowell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good overview of anxiety and how to displace it, recommended for psych counselors with clients or people willing to change their levels anxiety with an open mind.

[Richard Mactough · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for Anxiety

[CH · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is a really good quick and dirty resource in understanding your anxiety and using tools to manage/lessen it.

[Martha]

did not like desensitization exercises

[Jenaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

its full of info, however sometimes it felt like the author thinks everyone else is stupid.