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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jun 18, 2013 16:01:36 GMT -5
Free workbooks for working through your emotions, etc. via CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy). All online, downloadable and FREE. From the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) -- a specialist state-wide program that is administered through North Metropolitan Health Services in Western Australia. Each workbook has several modules. Each module is a pdf. - ⭐ Disclaimer from the site:
We strongly encourage you to talk to your local doctor or a mental health professional about your difficulties; as the information provided in the resources are NOT a substitute for proper diagnosis or treatment by an appropriate health professional.
Read the full disclaimer here:
www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/disclaimer/index.cfm
IMPORTANT:
Each "workbook" is several separate modules (chapters),
downloaded one at a time.
It is suggested that you do ALL the modules (chapters) sequentially
within whatever workbook you choose.The download menu is at the following link:
www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/consumers.cfmThere is a separate "workbook" on each of the following topics:- Improve your Assertiveness
- Coping with Depression
- Building Body Acceptance: Overcoming Body Dysmorphia
- Overcoming Distress Intolerance
(Learning to more effectively manage uncomfortable feelings ) - Overcoming Anxiety about your Health
- Overcoming Low Self-Esteem
- Keeping Your Balance: Coping with Bipolar Disorder
- Overcoming Disordered Eating (two separate workbook courses
-- Do them in order -- part A and part B) - Coping with Panic Attacks
- Overcoming Perfectionism
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Shy No Longer: Coping with Social Anxiety
- Mastering Your Worries:
(Overcoming chronic worrying and/or Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
These were published online for free ... in 2008. They are free to download for PERSONAL use only. - It is suggested that you work on these at home -- but discuss them with a mental health professional or a valid support group that works with the specific issue.
- Please use this resource RESPONSIBLY.
- Don't try to open all the deeply buried stuff -- if you are at home by yourself -- unless you have some support that you meet with on a regular basis, who truly understands the treatment for the specific issue.
I'm posting this resource here on the General Forum at SOS because I think it would be of benefit to both the registered members and the shy unregistered readers. Of special interest to hoarders and squalorers:
the workbooks on the topics of Distress, Perfectionism, and Procrastination.Please note: Many of the topics apply more to our "Byways" section of the SOS forums. I'm just posting the whole list here for informational purposes. |
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Post by Blackswan on Jun 18, 2013 17:30:42 GMT -5
This sounds awesome! Thanks for posting Lioness.
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Post by impedimenta on Jun 18, 2013 20:32:45 GMT -5
Wow, thank you!
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Post by angela on Jun 19, 2013 0:15:35 GMT -5
Thank you for this Lioness. What a generous resource. I'll take a good look at these modules.
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Post by angela on Jun 19, 2013 16:39:50 GMT -5
I'm going through the module on overcoming distress and while this isn't entirely new in theory, it is helpful and well-written. I would definitely recommend these!
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Post by dtesposito on Jun 19, 2013 19:07:00 GMT -5
Oh, I love CBT--I'm going to look at these later--thanks Lion!
Diane
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Post by Celeste on Jun 21, 2013 5:48:55 GMT -5
I had to laugh at myself. I decided to read through one of these packs yesterday. I've been procrastinating certain tasks lately. Doing them rakes up painful emotions. I've been avoiding the both by sleeping. I went through the whole pack on avoiding negative emotions, recognizing that sleeping was my method of avoidance and filling out the personal responses on the worksheets. I worked out a plan to tackle my tasks and emotional issue head on. Then I read the summary and went over each point carefully, reinforcing each decision. I could do this! I felt like I could do my tasks! I had the tools to handle the emotional baggage! I got offline... ...and promptly fell asleep in the chair!  My sleep schedule is madly off kilter right now, so I went ahead and enjoyed my nap. I really HAD done the work and once I was awake, I spent the night working on the tasks I'd been avoiding and facing my negative emotions. It is done and I feel much better, but I thought you might get a chuckle out of my detour! Thanks for posting this. It is very helpful.  |
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Post by PerrinJade on Jun 21, 2013 7:39:07 GMT -5
Irony: Downloading the procrastination one as a means to procrastinate. Yup. That's me for you.
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Post by anewleaf on Jun 21, 2013 18:04:00 GMT -5
Thank you for posting! I'm currently working my way through the assertiveness modules and I've already done a few of the exercises. This is perhaps the most helpful online CBT that I've encountered.
Thanks again!
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Post by Lochmess on Jun 23, 2013 9:37:30 GMT -5
I'm so grateful! Thank you!
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Jun 27, 2013 12:36:10 GMT -5
It's seems that I did a Step Six (from 12step programs) becoming "entirely ready" for a problem to be removed. (Sick and tired of being paralyzed by emotional chaos! Enough!) And a Step Seven -- asking higherpower to remove the problem. [One of my forms of "communication with higherpower" is ...
to reach out with my recovery buddies and say what's bothering me,
and that I want some help with the block.
Every time I articulate to someone that I need help with a specific issue,
it becomes clearer in my mind what I need/want to resolve,
and I'm "putting it out there" to the Universe ...
and ... this eventually becomes a sort of prayer.] ... and then I came across these workbooks. The workbooks are completely secular with no mention of spirit, higherpower, god, etc. Yet, to me, they feel heaven-sent. I've spent several weeks working through each of the modules of the workbook on the topic of Mastering Your Worries: (overcoming chronic worrying and/or Generalized Anxiety Disorder) I haven't finished yet. But I've gone through most of them. There was one module that rubbed me the wrong way. But the rest of the anxiety/worry modules are just amazing. I cannot tell you how AMAZING this has been for me. Life-changing.The worrying is just ... gone. |
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Post by Celeste on Jun 27, 2013 13:55:12 GMT -5
The worrying is just ... gone.  |
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Post by cellybird on Jun 27, 2013 17:36:42 GMT -5
Thanks so much!!
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Post by creativechaos on Apr 29, 2014 3:24:00 GMT -5
bumping this thread so that it might help others. thank you Lioness; what a great gift. i plan to start with the ones specific to hoarding. luv, cc
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Post by catcat on Apr 29, 2014 14:32:50 GMT -5
lioness, Thank you for these ! I am going to try a couple. catcat  |
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