CBT Anxiety Management Worksheets

General

• Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) psychiatry.ufl.edu archive.org
• Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety outcometracker.org archive.org
• Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale scaswebsite.com Link to Dr Spence’s website for information about administration and scoring

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Penn State Worry Questionnaire outcometracker.org archive.org

Social Anxiety Disorder

• Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) goodmedicine.org.uk archive.org
• Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) goodmedicine.org.uk
• Social Phobia Scale goodmedicine.org.uk
• Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (Social Anxiety) duke.edu archive.org

Treatment guides

• NICE guidelines for GAD and panic (January 2011)  nice.org.uk
• NICE guidelines for social anxiety disorder (May 2013)  nice.org.uk
• Treatment manual for general anxiety disorder crufad.org
• Treatment manual for panic disorder  crufad.org
• Treatment manual for social phobia  crufad.org
• Comprehensive cognitive behavior therapy for social phobia: a treatment manual – developed by Ledley, Foa, Huppert (2005)  div12.org
• Treatment manual for social anxiety disorder  epsy.tamu.edu  archive.org

Information handouts

Health anxiety

• Health anxiety – a self-help guide ntw.nhs.uk archive.org

Panic disorder

• Biology and Psychology of Panic handout cci.health.wa.gov
• What is panic? (Client handout) cci.health.wa.gov
• Panic self-help booklet by Dr Charles Young cpft.nhs.uk archive.org
• Panic self-help booklet from Glasgow STEPS including information about panic and self-help interventions glasgowsteps.com archive.org
• ‘Panic Stations – Coping with panic attacks’ is a 12-module self-help programme designed by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (Australia) Link to website
• Definition of interoceptive exposure commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org archive.org

Phobia

• Phobia self-help booklet from Glasgow STEPS including information about phobia and self-help interventions GlasgowSTEPS.com archive.org
• Treatment manual and patient workbook crufad.org

Social anxiety disorder

• ‘Shy No Longer – Coping with social anxiety’ is a 12-module self-help programme developed by the Centre for Clinical interventions (Australia) Link to website
• ‘Shyness and social anxiety – a self help guide’ is an excellent resource ntw.nhs.uk archive.org
• Assertive defense of the self (Padesky) padesky.com archive.org
• Task concentration training description commonlanguagepsychotherapy.org
• Task concentration training and fear of blushing eetonderzoek.nl archive.org

Exercises, Worksheets & Workbooks

Phobia

• Treatment manual and patient workbook  crufad.org

• GAD – a cognitive model and treatment hee.nhs.uk  archive.org

General

• Clark, D. M. (1999). Anxiety disorders: why they persist and how to treat them. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, S5-S27 psu.edu archive.org

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• Behar, E., DiMarco, I. D., Hekler, E. B., Mohlman, J., Staples, A. M. (2009). Current theoretical models of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): Conceptual review and treatment implications. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 23, 1011-1023 designinghealth.org archive.org
• Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Carraro, E., Barclay, N., Payne, R., & Freeston, M. H. (2016). Revising the Intolerance of Uncertainty Model of Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Evidence from UK and Italian Undergraduate Samples. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1723 nih.gov  archive.org

A number of treatment packages have demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of GAD:

Laval model

• Dugas, M. J., Gagnon, F., Ladouceur, R., & Freeston, M. H. (1998). Generalized anxiety disorder: A preliminary test of a conceptual model. Behaviour research and therapy, 36(2), 215-226.

Avoidance model of worry and GAD

• Borkovec, T. D., Alcaine, O., & Behar, E. (2004). Avoidance theory of worry and generalized anxiety disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder: Advances in research and practice, 2004.
• Hjemdal, O., Hagen, R., Nordahl, H. M., & Wells, A. (2013). Metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: Nature, evidence and an individual case illustration. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20(3), 301-313 amazonaws.com  archive.org

Metacognitive model

• Hjemdal, O., Hagen, R., Nordahl, H. M., & Wells, A. (2013). Metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: Nature, evidence and an individual case illustration. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20(3), 301-313.
• Wells, A. (1995). Meta-cognition and worry: A cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder. Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy, 23(3), 301-320 academia.edu  archive.org

Emotional dysregulation model

• Fresco, D. M., Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., & Ritter, M. (2013). Emotion regulation therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20(3), 282-300 nih.gov
• Mennin, D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Turk, C. L., & Fresco, D. M. (2002). Applying an emotion regulation framework to integrative approaches to generalized anxiety disorder. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 9(1), 85-90 kent.edu  archive.org

Acceptance-based model of GAD

• Roemer, L., & Orsillo, S. M. (2002). Expanding our conceptualization of and treatment for generalized anxiety disorder: Integrating mindfulness/acceptance‐based approaches with existing cognitive‐behavioral models. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 9(1), 54-68 semnaticscholar.org  archive.org
• Roemer, L., Salters, K., Raffa, S. D., & Orsillo, S. M. (2005). Fear and avoidance of internal experiences in GAD: Preliminary tests of a conceptual model. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29(1), 71-88.

Health Anxiety

• Asmundson, G. J. G., Abramowitz, J. S., Richter, A. A., Whedon, M. (2010). Health anxiety: current perspectives and future directions. Current Psychiatry Reports, 12, 306-312 researchgate.net
• Furer, P., Walker, J. R. (2008). Death anxiety: A cognitive behavioural approach. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 22(2), 167-182 researchgate.net
• Salkovskis, P. M., Warwick, H. M. C., Deale, A. C. (2003). Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Severe and Persistent Health Anxiety (Hypochondriasis). Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 3, 353-367 btci.edina.clockss.org archive.org
• Walker, J. R., Furer, P. (2008). Interoceptive exposure in the treatment of health anxiety and hypochondirasis. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 22(4), 366-378 researchgate.net

Panic disorder

• Clark D. M. (1986). A cognitive approach to panic. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 24:461–470. comhem.se archive.org
• Clark, D. A. (1999). Anxiety disorders: Why they persist and how to treat them. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 37, S5-S27 kcl.ac.uk archive.org
• Schmidt, N. B., Woolaway-Bickel, K., Trakowski, J. et al. (2000). Dismantling cognitive-behavioural treatment for panic disorder: Questioning the utility of breathing retraining. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68(3), 417-424 psy.utexas.edu archive.org
• Wells, A. (1997). Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders. Chichester: Wiley.

Social Anxiety Disorder

• Clark, D. M. (2001). A cognitive perspective on social phobia psy.utexas.edu archive.org
• Moscovitch, D. A. (2009). What is the core fear in social phobia? A new model to facilitate individualized case conceptualization and treatment. Cognitive and Behavioural Practice, 16. 123-134 uwaterloo.ca archive.org
• Wild, Hackmann, Clark (2008). Rescripting early memories linked to negative images in social phobia: a pilot study. Behaviour Therapy, 39(1), 47-56. sciencedirect
• Veale, D. (2003). Treatment of social phobia. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 9, 258-264 rcpsych.org archive.org

The Mental Health Research Group at the University of Huddersfield developed a self-help pack for anxiety.

The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is an Australian mental health organisation that conducts research, provides training and supervision, and offers a clinical service. They have made a really useful selection of materials for treating generalised anxiety disorder