Self-help resources
Here are some evidence-based resources covering various topics for you to use.
Anxiety
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
1. Overview of Generalised Anxiety [pdf] 246KB
2. Overview of worrying [pdf] 305KB
3. Negative beliefs about worrying - Uncontrollability [pdf] 300KB
4. Attention training [pdf] 264KB
5. Negative beliefs about worrying - Danger [pdf] 278KB
6. Positive beliefs about worrying [pdf] 290KB
7. Problem solving [pdf] 271KB
8. Helpful thinking [pdf] 248KB
9. Accepting uncertainty [pdf] 235KB
10. Self management [pdf] 304KB
Appearance concerns
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
Module 1 The Impact of Appearance Overconcern [pdf] 243KB
Module 2 What Keeps Appearance Concerns Going [pdf] 567KB
Module 3 Appearance Focused Attention [pdf] 258KB
Module 4 Body Checking & Reassurance Seeking [pdf] 283KB
Module 5 Appearance Altering Behaviours [pdf] 335KB
Module 6 Avoidance & Safety Behaviours [pdf] 220KB
Module 7 Overvaluing Appearance & Self-Management Planning [pdf] 781KB
Assertiveness
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
Assert Yourself - 01 - What is Assertiveness [pdf] 187KB
Assert Yourself - 01 - What is Assertiveness [pdf] 187KB
Assert Yourself - 02 - How to Recognise Assertive Behaviour [pdf] 136KB
Assert Yourself - 03 - How to Think More Assertively [pdf] 178KB
Assert Yourself - 04 - How to Behave More Assertively [pdf] 143KB
Assert Yourself - 05 - Reducing Physical Tension [pdf] 166KB
Assert Yourself - 06 - How to Say No Assertively [pdf] 129KB
Assert Yourself - 07 - Dealing With Criticism Assertively [pdf] 191KB
Assert Yourself - 08 - How to Deal with Disappointment Assertively [pdf] 123KB
Assert Yourself - 09 - Giving and Receiving Compliments Assertively [pdf] 144KB
Assert Yourself - 10 - Putting it All Together [pdf] 168KB
Bipolar
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI)
Keeping Your Balance - 01 - Overview of Bipolar Disorder [pdf] 304KB
Keeping Your Balance - 02 - Treatment Options for Bipolar Disorder [pdf] 306KB
Keeping Your Balance - 03 - Self Monitoring for Relapse Prevention [pdf] 327KB
Keeping Your Balance - 04 - Behavioural Strategies for Depression [pdf] 459KB
Keeping Your Balance - 05 - Cognitive Strategies for Depression [pdf] 254KB
Keeping Your Balance - 06 - Cognitive Strategies for Mania [pdf] 267KB
Keeping Your Balance - 07 - Behavioural Strategies for Preventing Mania [pdf] 325KB
Keeping Your Balance - 08 - Coping with Psychosocial Stressors and Self-Management [pdf] 277KB
Depression
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) .
What is depression - information sheet [pdf] 86KB
1. Overview of depression workbook [pdf] 329KB
2a. Behavioural strategies for managing depression workbook [pdf] 383KB
2b. Behavioural Activation for depression worksheet [pdf] 206KB
3. The Thinking-Feeling connection workbook [pdf] 245KB
4. The ABC analysis workbook [pdf] 289KB
5. Unhelpful thinking styles workbook [pdf] 722KB
6. Detective work and disputation workbook [pdf] 374KB
7. The end result workbook [pdf] 387KB
Disordered Eating
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
Break Free From ED - 01 - What Are Eating Disorders_Fillable [pdf] 477KB
Break Free From ED - 02 - What Keeps Eating Disorders Going_Fillable [pdf] 385KB
Break Free From ED - 03 - Understanding the Number On the Scale_Fillable [pdf] 533KB
Break Free From ED - 04 - Self Monitoring_Fillable [pdf] 1MB
Break Free From ED - 05 - Food and Energy_Fillable [pdf] 655KB
Break Free From ED - 06 - Eating For Recovery - Part 1_Fillable [pdf] 437KB
Break Free From ED - 07 - Eating for Recovery - Part 2_Fillable [pdf] 458KB
Break Free From ED - 08 - Binge Eating_Fillable [pdf] 422KB
Break Free From ED - 09 - Purging_Fillable [pdf] 431KB
Break Free From ED - 10 - Driven Exercise_Fillable [pdf] 593KB
Break Free From ED - 11 - Body Image I - Body Checking_Fillable [pdf] 466KB
Break Free From ED - 12 - Body Image II - Body Avoidance_Fillable [pdf] 443KB
Break Free From ED - 13 - Core Beliefs_Fillable [pdf] 452KB
Break Free From ED - 14 - Maintaining Your Gains and Dealing with Setbacks_Fillable [pdf] 461KB
Break Free From ED - 15 - Getting Educated About Eating Disorders Education Pack [pdf] 2MB
Health anxiety
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
1. Understanding Health Anxiety [pdf] 348KB
2. How Health Anxiety develops [pdf] 362KB
3. What keeps Health Anxiety going [pdf] 383KB
4. Reducing your focus on health symptoms and worries [pdf] 342KB
5. Re-evaluating unhelpful thinking [pdf] 364KB
6. Reducing checking and reassurance seeking [pdf] 403KB
7. Challenging avoidance and safety behaviours [pdf] 350KB
8. Adjusting health rules and assumptions [pdf] 251KB
9. Healthy living and safety management planning [pdf] 312KB
Hearing Voices
A collection of information sheets by Understanding Voices , Durham University and the Wellcome Trust.
1. What is hearing voices [pdf] 398KB
2. Different experiences of hearing voices [pdf] 522KB
3. Why do people hear voices [pdf] 259KB
4. Coping with voices [pdf] 621KB
5. Talking to others about hearing voices [pdf] 255KB
6. Advice for those supporting people that hear voices [pdf] 317KB
Low self-esteem
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) .
1. What is low self esteem [pdf] 258KB
2. How low self-esteem starts [pdf] 254KB
3. How low self-esteem is maintained [pdf] 236KB
4. Biased expectations [pdf] 289KB
5. Negative self evaluations [pdf] 259KB
6. Accepting yourself [pdf] 437KB
7. Adjusting rules and assumptions [pdf] 253KB
Mindfulness
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) .
Panic
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
1. Panic information sheet [pdf] 130KB
1. Overview of panic [pdf] 295KB
2. More about panic [pdf] 277KB
3. The thinking-feeling connection [pdf] 204KB
4. The ABCs of thinking and feeling [pdf] 235KB
5. Unhelpful thinking styles [pdf] 234KB
6. Detective work and disputation [pdf] 205KB
7. Evaluation and balanced thinking [pdf] 246KB
9a. Coping with physical alarms part 1 [pdf] 288KB
9b. Coping with physical alarms part 2 [pdf] 245KB
11. Self Management [pdf] 237KB
Perfectionism
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
Perfectionism in Perspective - 01 - What is Perfectionism [pdf] 410KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 02 - Understanding Perfectionism [pdf] 300KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 03 - What keeps perfectionism going [pdf] 354KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 04 - Changing Perfectionism [pdf] 347KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 05 - Reducing my Perfectionist Behaviour [pdf] 381KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 06 - Challenging my perfectionistic thinking [pdf] 311KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 07 - Adjusting unhelpful rules and assumptions [pdf] 291KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 08 - Re-evaluating the importance of achieving [pdf] 347KB
Perfectionism in Perspective - 09 - Putting it all together [pdf] 303KB
Procrastination
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
Putting Off Procrastinating - 01 - Understanding Procrastination Part 1 [pdf] 307KB
Putting Off Procrastinating - 02 - Understanding Procrastination Part 2 [pdf] 252KB
Putting Off Procrastinating - 03 - Changing Procrastination [pdf] 319KB
Putting Off Procrastinating - 04 - Dismissing Procrastination Excuses [pdf] 216KB
Putting Off Procrastinating - 05 - Practical Techniques to stop Procrastination [pdf] 328KB
Putting Off Procrastinating - 07 - Putting It Altogether, Doing It & Keeping Going [pdf] 286KB
Self-compassion
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI).
1. Self compassion information sheet [pdf] 173KB
1. Understanding self-compassion [pdf] 364KB
2. Barriers to self-compassion [pdf] 346KB
3. Preparing for self-compassion [pdf] 292KB
4. Compassionate imagery [pdf] 301KB
5. Self-compassionate thinking [pdf] 365KB
6. Self-compassionate behaviour [pdf] 356KB
7. Self-compassionate living [pdf] 279KB
Sleep
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by Good Thinking the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) .
Social Anxiety
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) .
Module 1 - Understanding Social Anxiety [pdf] 454KB
Module 2 - Overcoming Negative Thinking [pdf] 367KB
Module 3 - Overcoming Avoidance [pdf] 392KB
Module 4 - Behavioural Experiment Stepladders [pdf] 355KB
Module 5 - Safety Behaviours [pdf] 373KB
Module 6 - The Role of Attention [pdf] 437KB
Module 7 - Negative Self Imagery [pdf] 516KB
Module 8 - Challenging Core Beliefs [pdf] 393KB
Module 9 - Strengthening New Core Beliefs [pdf] 360KB
Module 10 - Maintaining Your Gains and Dealing with Setbacks [pdf] 360KB
Tolerating Distress
A collection of information sheets and workbooks by the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) .
Facing Your Feelings - 01 - Understanding Distress Intolerance [pdf] 395KB
Facing Your Feelings - 02 - Accepting Distress [pdf] 317KB
Trauma
Caroline Harrison, a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, provides a series of techniques that are helpful if you have experienced something traumatic in your life. Workbook developed in partnership with Good Thinking.
It is recommend that you watch these Coping with Trauma films before using the ‘Coping with Trauma’ workbook as they may help you use it more effectively.