Retrain your thinking and your life with these simple, scientifically proven techniques!

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT for short, is often cited as the gold standard of psychotherapy. Its techniques allow you to identify the negative thought processes that hold you back and exchange them for new, productive ones that can change your life. CBT's popularity continues to grow, and more individuals are turning to CBT as a way to help develop a healthier, more productive outlook on life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies shows you how you can easily incorporate the techniques of CBT into your day-to-day life and produce tangible results. You'll learn how to take your negative thoughts to boot camp and retrain them, establishing new habits that tackle your toxic thoughts and retool your awareness, allowing you to be free of the weight of past negative thinking biases.

• Move on: Take a fresh look at your past and maybe even overcome it
• Mellow out: Relax yourself through techniques that reduce anger and stress
• Lighten up: Read practical advice on healthy attitudes for living and ways to nourish optimism
• Look again: Discover how to overcome low self-esteem and body image issues

Whatever the issue, don't let your negative thoughts have the last say--start developing your new outlook on life today with help from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies!

How you can stop worrying about your health and enjoy life

'This book not only helps sufferers to better understand the nature of the problem, but also provides them with the skills necessary to overcome it and to regain quality of life'
Professor Paul Salkovskis, Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. For some the anxiety becomes severe and persistent. This can involve spending 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 (CBT) - 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. This book includes:
- Questionnaires, case studies and exercises
- Chapters on fear of death and on medication

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

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Series Editor: Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper

Behavioral psychology examines how our environment and external stimuli shape our behaviour, affecting everything from our emotions to our personalities. In this book, the author draws on the latest scientific research to present this hugely important subject in a new and exciting manner and brings the subject to life for the general reader.

Topics discussed include:
- Origins of Behavioral Psychology
- Classical and Operant Conditioning
- Stimuli and Reinforcement
- Motivations and Human Behavior
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Filled with helpful diagrams and simple summaries, Knowledge in a Nutshell: Behavioural Psychology is perfect for the non-expert, taking the complexities of the science of the mind and making them easy to understand.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The critically-acclaimed Knowledge in a Nutshell series provides accessible and engaging introductions to wide-ranging topics, written by experts in their fields.

Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. 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 behavioral 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 recognize what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it.