The Negative Thoughts Workbook: CBT Skills to Overcome the Repetitive Worry, Shame, and Rumination That Drive Anxiety and Depression Spiral-Bound |

David A. Clark, Robert L. Leahy (Foreword by)

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Emotional distress takes many forms—such as excessive worry, rumination, regret, shame, humiliation, or resentment. Managing these negative thoughts is essential for emotional healing and wholeness. In this workbook, renowned psychologist David A. Clark offers a transdiagnostic, cognitive behavioral approach to effectively target these unwanted thoughts. Using practical, step-by-step instructions and activities, readers will learn to free themselves from the addictive thought patterns that trap them in an endless cycle of negativity.

A proven-effective CBT approach to help you break the cycle of repetitive negative thinking

If you suffer from anxiety or depression, chances are you also experience unwanted, distressing, and repetitive thoughts. These negative thoughts are often grounded in anger, guilt, shame, worry, humiliation, resentment, or regret. And the more you try to gain control over these thoughts, the more they seem to spiral out of your control. So, how can you break free from this self-defeating ‘mind trap,’ and experience lasting peace and relief?

The Negative Thoughts Workbook offers a step-by-step program to help you target and effectively cope with negative thinking patterns. Based on effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies, this practical guide outlines a transdiagnostic approach to managing the thoughts that drive your emotional distress and threaten your mental health and well-being. You are not condemned to a life of constant, chaotic, or disturbing thoughts. If you’re ready to take shelter from the storm inside your head, the easy-to-follow activities in this evidence-based workbook will help you gain control over your cycles of negative thinking.

Discover powerful ways to:

  • Identify your own thinking traps
  • Deal with worry and anxiety
  • Stop rumination before it takes over
  • Confront shame and move beyond regret
  • Find release from resentment
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 200 pages
ISBN-10: 1684035058
Item Weight: 0.64 lbs
Dimensions: 8.0 x 0.4 x 10.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars Up to 30 ratings
The Negative Thoughts Workbook offers a plethora of excellent, evidence-based, and well-presented strategies to address repetitive negative thinking related to anxiety and depression. If you engage in this type of thinking—and we all do from time to time—this book will help you to recognize your thought patterns and implement effective ways to change them. Written in an engaging and practical style by one of the world’s experts in the psychology of negative thinking, you will benefit from reading this book and using the skills it offers.”
—Keith S. Dobson, PhD, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Calgary, and president of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
-Keith S. Dobson, PhD
David A. Clark, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of New Brunswick. He is author or coauthor of several books on depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including The Anxiety and Worry Workbook with Aaron T. Beck (founder of cognitive therapy), The Anxious Thoughts Workbook, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD and Its Subtypes. Clark is a founding fellow and trainer consultant with the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, and fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is author of the blog, The Runaway Mind, on www.psychologytoday.com.

Foreword writer Robert L. Leahy, PhD, is author or editor of twenty-seven books, including The Worry Cure, The Jealousy Cure, and Beat the Blues. He is director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York, NY, and clinical professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College. Leahy has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and more.