Anxiety & Depression Workbook For Dummies, 2Nd Edition

Anxiety & Depression Workbook For Dummies helps readers by experientially put into practice what they've read in Depression For Dummies and Anxiety For Dummies. The workbook is packed with exercises to help people work on issues which they've either identified themselves or are managing with the support and care of a qualified mental health professional. This workbook also helps readers understand and overcome their anxiety and depression by providing tools that help to remove roadblocks to change, which ultimately leads to the positive management of life's problems.

UPDATES:

• Modern empirically based approaches will be expanded and explained in Chapter 1.
• Treatment chapters will focus on teaching empirically supported strategies that can cut across diagnostic categories: CBT, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT, including mindfulness), and interpersonal therapy (IP).
• Updates, especially in the case examples, will be made to reflect changes in technology, social media, loneliness, pandemic issues, and cultural challenges.
• In Chapter 2, the section on making a lifeline will become more inclusive and reflect diverse family circumstances (caregivers rather than mothers and fathers), as well as modern stressors.
• Will add motivational interviewing strategies to Chapter 3.
• Chapter 7 will be deleted because of the lack of current evidence on schema therapy. Chapter 8 will be lengthened by providing more examples of mindfulness-based practices (ACT).
• Chapter 10 on exercise will be updated with new research on the cognitive benefits of exercise.
• Chapter 13 will decrease the emphasis on relaxation and will give techniques from Cognitive Therapy for Insomnia (CBI).
• Medications and other biological interventions will be updated in Chapter 14. The possible influence of the placebo effect will be explained.