Ashley L. Peterson
On these sites you'll find free workbooks and worksheets based on cognitive behavioural therapy for a variety of different mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. CBT is an evidence-based treatment that looks at the connections between situations, thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and helps to replace cognitive distortions with more balanced thoughts. While CBT has the most potential for success when done with a therapist, it's also quite conducive to self-help work.
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The workbooks that were previously published by MoodJuice of NHS Firth Valley have migrated over to become part of NHS Inform.
Self-help guides cover a variety of mental health topics, including:
In conjunction with those with lived experience of mental health concerns, and clinicians, we have developed a suite of guided self-help workbooks that support the delivery of high dose narrow bandwidth support provisions for step 2, low intensity psychological interventions.
The workbooks are intended to be used in conjunction with the Flinders low intensity practitioner and supervisor training and are most effective when accompanied by accredited training from Flinders cognitive behaviour therapy courses. The workbooks have been evaluated in national programs throughout Australia and are used by services who are supporting low intensity service provisions. The workbooks support flexible and tailored strategies that attend to different people’s situations and needs, ensuring individual care and support.
Topics include behavioural activation for depression, behavioural experiments for overcoming obstacles, and one step at a time graded exposure.
This CBT workbook from the UK's National Health Service targets depression anxiety with five different tool approaches:
It concludes with creating a wellbeing blueprint.
Resources for common mental health problems, including workbooks made up of modules, brief information sheets, and worksheets that you may wish to use, or that your therapist may help you with.
Self-help guides are available for a number of topics including:
This workbook from a Canadian research group provides information about depression and covers CBT skills that can help, including behavioural activation, more realistic thinking, and problem-solving skills. It also touches on relapse prevention.
This Australian has cognitive behavioural therapy manuals/workbooks for a range of different conditions, including:
This integrated CBT workbook is focused on the connection between trauma, substance abuse, and other mental health conditions. It includes education around symptoms, work on mindful relaxation, and developing more flexible thinking.
These CBT-based self-help workbooks from Queens University are aimed at promoting wellness and self-acceptance, and managing anxiety and depression.
This CBT workbook from Community Partners in Care is focused on the connection between activities and mood, and helps you to move forward with behavioural activation.
Get the Think CBT workbook here. Download a free copy of our 90 page Cognitive Behavioural Therapy skills primer.
The Think CBT workbook is a 90 page Cognitive Behavioural Therapy skills primer and self-help guide. The workbook includes information about key Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approaches, together with 42 popular CBT exercises and practice examples. We have made a static copy of the Think CBT Workbook freely available to individuals undertaking Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or as a self-help manual. This reflects our continuing commitment to promoting good psychological health. The exercises in the static version can be printed and completed by hand on an entirely free of charge basis.
This resource from the University of Exeter uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help with generalized anxiety disorder.
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