Overcoming Health Anxiety A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques

Informationen zum Autor DAVID VEALE is a consultant psychiatrist in cognitive behavioural therapies at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Klappentext S top worrying about your health and enjoy life. Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. This can be worse in a time of global panic about pandemics. For some, the anxiety becomes chronic, and they may spend many hours checking for symptoms, seeking reassurance from others, surfing the internet for information about different diseases, or repeatedly visiting the doctor. It is distressing for them and for everyone around them. In fact, health anxiety can be very successfully treated with cognitive behavioural therapy - the approach taken in this self-help guide. Using a structured, step-by-step approach, the authors explain how the problem develops, how to recognise what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it. - Includes questionnaires, case studies and exercises - Based on proven CBT techniques - Includes a chapter on fear of death and fear of vomiting A bestselling title that uses CBT techniques to help you overcome chronic anxieties about your health. Zusammenfassung A bestselling title that uses CBT techniques to help you overcome chronic anxieties about your health.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Veale, Rob Willson, Veale David, Willson Rob
• Editore: Robinson Publishing
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 26.11.2009
• Categoria: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Guide e manuali > Salute
• EAN: 9781845298241
• ISBN: 978-1-84529-824-1
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 11.7 x 13.3 x 2.2 cm
• Serie: Overcoming Books; Overcoming Books
• Categorie: clean, influenza, MEDICAL / Public Health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, global, Psychiatry, Family & health, Popular medicine & health, infection, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Cognitive behavioural therapy, panic, Fever, Health Anxiety, Phobia, Behavior, CBT, Coping with anxiety and phobias, Family and health, Popular medicine and health, Illness, Spread, Germs, Overcoming, cough, Hypochondria, washing