Overcoming Anxiety, 2nd Edition: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques Paperback - 2022

From the rear cover

Learn to master your anxiety using tried-and-tested techniques

We all know what anxiety feels like: it is an inevitable part of life. For some of us, however, panic attacks, phobias, obsessions or constant worries can have a devastating impact on our self-confidence, our relationships and our general well-being.

This self-help guide shows you how to uses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to manage your anxieties. CBT has been shown to be highly effective in the treatment of anxiety and it will help you to understand what has caused it, what is keeping it going and, crucially, how take back control.

This fully updated edition:
- Reflects recent developments in our understanding of anxiety
- Contains many useful examples of anxiety management in action

HELEN KENNERLEY works as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre. She is also the Director of the University of Oxford MSc in CBT. In 2002 she was shortlisted by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies for the award for the most influential female cognitive therapist in Britain.

Overcoming self-help guides use clinically proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical.

Series Editor: Professor Peter Cooper

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