This informational handout provides a client-friendly overview of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and ways to address it.
Offers theory, guidance, and prompts for mental health professionals. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Includes client-friendly guidance. Downloads are in Fillable PDF format where appropriate.
Our ‘What Is … ?’ series is a collection of one-page information handouts for common mental health conditions. Friendly and explanatory, handouts in the series describe how it can feel to struggle with a difficulty and are reliable sources of information for your clients. Drawing upon established cognitive behavioral models, each handout has a particular focus on maintaining factors that might prevent the problem from getting better.
What Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)? is designed to help clients with GAD to understand more about their condition.
This resource is expertly designed to support clients by:
Designed to help clients affected by generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Discuss the common symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Help the client understand how their symptoms fit together and make sense.
Explore what might be maintaining the client's difficulties.
Point out treatments that can be effective for addressing these issues.
It is common to worry sometimes, but people who worry too much often find it exhausting, and it may affect their health. Psychologists call this generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and they think that between 2 and 6 people out of every 100 experience GAD every year. The good news is that there are effective psychological treatments for GAD.
The What Is Generalized Anxiety? information handout is designed to help clients with GAD understand more about their condition. It includes a summary of the most common symptoms of GAD and a description of why GAD might not get better by itself, derived from Dugas’ and Wells’ cognitive models of GAD.
