Overcoming Teenage Anxiety, Stress and Panic Overcoming Series

Overcoming Teenage Anxiety, Stress and Panic uses the trusted Five Areas model of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to help young people experiencing anxiey, stress and panic to help themselves. The Five Areas model communicates life skills and key interventions in a clear, pragmatic and accessible style by examining five important aspects of our lives:

Life situation, relationships, resources and problems
Altered thinking
Altered feelings or moods
Altered physical sensations or symptoms
Altered behaviour or activity levels

This exciting collection of practical and self help workbooks has been developed in liaison with a team of experts working with young people. The course provides access to proven CBT approaches and addresses all the common challenges faced during times of anxiety, stress and panic, helping the reader make positive changes in their life in a planned and achievable way. A final workbook is aimed at friends and relatives and describes how to offer support.

The workbooks are key reading for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and CBT practitioners. They also provide an invaluable resource for school teachers, counsellors, primary care practitioners, nursing staff, occupational therapists, social workers, youth workers and other self help organisations.

A linked and completely free online support course is located at www.livinglifetothefull.com with additional resources at www.fiveareas.com.

(about the authors should be taken from Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression)

Part 1 Understanding why you feel as you do
      Tackling your anxiety starting out
      Understanding worry and stress
      Understanding panic and phobias
Part 2 Making changes
      Making changes to do with people and events around us
           How to start fixing problems and finding solutions
           How to ask for what you really need
           Learning to be calmer, less annoyed and less irritated
      Making changes in your life
           How to get a good nights sleep
           Using exercise to overcome stress
           Things you do that worsen your anxiety
           Stress, alcohol and drugs
           Facing fears and overcoming avoidance
           Understanding and overcoming shyness and social phobia
           Noticing and changing anxious thinking
           Understanding and overcoming feelings of depersonalisation
           Overcoming anxious breathing and hyperventilation
      Making changes for the future
           Planning for the future

General and Professional

Professor Chris Williams MBChB, BSc, MMedSc, MD, FRCPsych, BABCP Accredited CBT practitioner, Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry, University of Glasgow, UK

Dr Nicky Dummett MBBChir BA (Hons) DCH MMedSc MRCPsych Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Leeds Primary Care Trust, Leeds, UK