An Introduction to Coping with Health Anxiety, 2nd edition (An Introduction to Coping series) - Softcover

Learn how to control your health anxiety

Health anxiety affects many people across the world - a preoccupation with physical illness that is equally bad for your mental health. This self-help guide explains how it develops and what keeps it going.

This updated edition gives you clinically proven cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you challenge the way you think and behave, such as:
- What health anxiety is and how it develops
- Physical symptom
- How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious.
- Reducing your focus on illness
- How to spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious
- Reducing your focus on your body and on illness

Learn how to control your health anxiety

Health anxiety affects many people across the world - a preoccupation with physical illness that is equally bad for your mental health. This self-help guide explains how it develops and what keeps it going. This updated edition gives you clinically proven cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you challenge the way you think and behave:

· Spot and challenge thoughts that make you anxious
· Reduce your focus on your body and on illness

Dr Brenda Hogan is a clinical psychologist in Vancouver, Canada, working on psychological assessment and the provision of brief psychological treatment for anxiety and depression. Dr Charles Young is based in the Department of Psychology at Rhodes University, South Africa, where he has co-ordinated professional training programmes in clinical and counselling psychology. Much of his work involves the provision of brief psychological approaches to alleviate anxiety and depression. Both Brenda and Charles previously worked at the Primary Care Psychological Treatment Service in Cambridge where they helped to develop a pioneering service in primary care based on self-help approaches to help alleviate a range of common psychological problems.