The CBT Anxiety Solution Workbook: A Breakthrough Treatment for Overcoming Fear, Worry, and Panic

by Matthew McKay, Michelle Skeen, Patrick Fanning

You are stronger than your anxiety! In this important workbook, best-selling authors Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning, and Michelle Skeen offer a breakthrough anxiety solution based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you understand and overcome your fears and worries, rather than try to avoid them. If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, you may try to avoid situations that cause you to feel worry, fear, or panic. You may even believe that terrible things will happen to you if you face the things that make you anxious. But avoidance isn’t a long-term solution, and in the end it may result in more anxiety. This book shows you how the simple belief that you can endure your worries and fears—both mentally and physically—can be an extremely powerful treatment. Using a breakthrough approach combining proven-effective CBT and exposure therapy, this workbook helps you understand how worry and rumination drive anxiety, and offers practical exercises to help you adopt new habits of observing your thoughts, rather than accepting them as the “ultimate truth.” You’ll also develop mindfulness and self-soothing coping skills to help you manage anxiety in the moment, rather than avoid it. Over time these practices will show you that you are more powerful than your anxiety. If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of anxiety and avoidance, this workbook will help you make the changes you need to get your life back.

This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation —an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Health

208 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2017

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

[Karri Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book free through Goodreads Giveaways. It seems to me that a thoughtful approach was taken with this book. It's easy to read and reference. It provides thoughtful insights into the different types of anxiety and provides tools to help identify and manage your own anxieties. I enjoyed the book and felt that it provided good insights.

[Harperr · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've interested in CBT psychology for a while so i picked this up. Some is new. Other seem to be normal strategy but still useful by the way. At least i've got new trick to cope with my worries and emotion much more better.

Want to find psychology book more :)

[Jack Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read! Contextualized anxiety in a pragmatic way and gave concrete steps to release yourself from its grip. Very happy to have read it, and will be probably coming back to read it throughout life.

[Michelle Olms · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[ابراهيم المرزوقي · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book, nicely Practical techniques, I certainly benefited from it in my practical field

[Julie Simons · Rating 3 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Well organized, solid guidance, good exercises. I incorporated some into my practice.