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Overcoming worry and generalised anxiety disorder, a self-help guide using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques, Mark Freeston and Kevin Meares

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Overcoming worry and generalised anxiety disorder

Mark Freeston and Kevin Meares

a self-help guide using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

Up to 44 in every 1000 adults suffer from a condition known as Generalised Anxiety Disorder. This is much more than the normal worrying we all do - it can be a debilitating disorder leading to significant personal and social problems and sometimes financial loss. Using established and proven CBT techniques, expert clinicians Kevin Meares and Mark Freeston help readers to understand that it is their propensity to worry, not the multitude of problems they worry about, that is the root of the problem. The user-friendly, step-by-step approach explains why they worry, how to recognise what feeds it and develop effective methods of dealing with it. With each step the authors introduce new ideas that add to the picture of worry, and use questionnaires, exercises and tasks to help the reader understand and then challenge unhelpful habits and beliefs

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