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Appearance Anxiety: A Guide to Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder for Young People, Families and Professionals
by National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorders Service, Maudsley Hospital The first book for teens that explains the causes and impact of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The book is interspersed with accounts and artwork from young people with BDD, along with perspectives of their families. BDD is a debilitating mental health disorder,...
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Banish your Body Image Thief
Banish your Body Image Thief A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Building positive body image for young people by Kate Collins-Donnelly Watch out - the Body Image Thief is about! He's the sneaky character who keeps stealing your positive body image from your Body Image Vault, leaving only negative thoughts and feelings about your body...
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Banish your Self-Esteem Thief
Build confidence and self-esteem with this fun and effective workbook for young people. Look out – the Self-Esteem Thief is on the prowl! He’s the crafty character who keeps stealing your positive self-esteem from your Self-Esteem Vault, leaving only negative thoughts and feelings about you behind.
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Breaking Free from OCD
Breaking free from OCD A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy guide for young people and their families Written by leading experts on OCD, this step-by-step guide is written for adolescents with OCD and their families, to be used in home treatment or as a self-help book. Using the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), which is the...
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Pick Me Up Book Series
Dr Chris William’s popular Pick Me Up series uses CBT techniques to provide quick advice on how to manage your anxiety and mood. Identify and change negative thoughts and behaviours with these handy little guides. From Why Do I Feel So Bad? From The Things You Do That Mess you Up
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Pick Me Up Dental Series
Do you or your child live in fear of visiting the dentist? Do you need more motivation booking that dreaded checkup appointment? Dr Chris Williams' Pick Me Up series is an inspiring, relatable set of booklets, aimed at acknowledging your worries and managing your anxiety. Your Teeth You Are In Control How To Help Your Child...
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Stand Up to OCD! A CBT Self-Help Guide and Workbook for Teens by Kelly Wood and Douglas Fisher
'At last - a fun and easy-to-read book on OCD. Likely to engage a young person with OCD and to motivate them in therapy.' - Professor David Veale, The Maudsley and Priory Hospital, North London Imagine each person's brain has a captain and crew. For a person struggling with OCD, it's as if OCD...
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Starving the Anxiety Gremlin
Starving the Anxiety Gremlin A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management for Young People by Kate Collins-Donnelly.
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Starving the Exam Stress Gremlin
Stressed out by exams? Then the exam stress gremlin is in town! Exam fears and worries are his favourite foods, and the more of these you feed him, the bigger he gets and the more stressed you become.
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The CBT Art Workbook for Coping with Anxiety by Jennifer Guest
Using the principles of CBT, these 150 information pages and worksheets help adults to understand and manage symptoms of anxiety. The activities follow the framework of a typical CBT course: how it works, looking at the nature of the anxiety, linking thoughts, feelings, behaviour and physiology cycles, exploring different levels of thinking and beliefs, and...
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The Compassionate Mind workbook
The Compassionate Mind Workbook is for anyone who is interested in how compassion – in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches – may help us to engage with, understand and ultimately, try to alleviate suffering.
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Understanding Hoarding by Jo Cooke
Hoarding can make life a misery for individuals and their families, affecting health and lifestyle, and posing a significant risk of fire and other dangers. Research suggests that 25% of accidental domestic fire deaths involve hoarding.
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Overcoming Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder (2nd Ed) by Mark Freeston and Kevin Meares
Excessive worrying (otherwise known as Generalised Anxiety Disorder) affects more than 4% of the population and can cause a huge amount of distress. Written by two of the UK's leading experts on generalised anxiety, Overcoming Worry uses cognitive behavioural therapy methods to help change the self-defeating ways we think, in order to feel better. This...
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Coping with an anxious or depressed child by Dr Sam Cartwright-Hatton
This book has been written by Anxiety UK Patron and leading researcher on child anxiety, Dr Sam Cartwright-Hatton. It offers practical advice about managing your child's anxiety and includes worksheets, tips on the use of praise or consequences and how you can engage the school in helping your child. It is a great first read...
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Worry Box
THE WORRY BOX Helps you understand your anxiety - your worry - and introduces you to a great way to fix it: the 3 Fs (Face it, Fix it, Forget it). It will also help you beat panic attacks. Chapter 2 is about the first F - FACE IT. If you're scared of going to...
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Overcoming Body Image Problems by Alex Clarke, David Veale and Rob Willson
Many people occasionally suffer from a negative body self-image but, for an increasing number of people, this can turn into a more serious preoccupation. One per cent of the population will develop Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), a condition characterised by severe preoccupation with a perceived physical defect. Body image problems can cause significant distress and...
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Overcoming Low Self Esteem (2nd Ed) by Melanie Fennell
This book does away with the technical jargon that makes some self help books inaccessible. Instead it's easy to read, well thought out progression takes the reader on a journey through various cognitive behavioral techniques that aims to get them past their low self esteem and get them thinking more positively about themselves. "I bought...
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Helping your Child with Fears and Worries by Cathy Creswell and Lucy Willetts
Fears and worries are very common among children with around 15% thought to suffer from anxiety disorders; the most commonly identified emotional or behavioural problems among children. However, if left unchecked, they can cause more serious problems such as school avoidance, difficulties in making friends and long-term problems with anxiety and depression. Written by two...
