Overcoming Health Anxiety: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques PDF
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Rob Willson is a cognitive behavior therapist in private practice. He is a tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and studying for a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He holds an Honours degree in Psychology, an MSc in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social and Behavioral Health Studies. He has been involved in treating individuals with health anxiety for the past thirteen years. David Veale and Rob Willson are authors of Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Overcoming Body Image Problems (including Body Dysmorphic Disorder) and Manage Your Mood, also published by Constable & Robinson, and Rob is author of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies published by Wiley. Dr David Veale is a consultant psychiatrist in cognitive behavior therapy at the South London and Maudsley Trust and the Priory Hospital North London. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. He is an accredited cognitive behavior therapist and was President of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies from 2006 to 2008. He sat on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) working group that provided guidelines for treating obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in the UK. He has about seventy publications to his name, and his own website, www.veale.co.uk. The aim of the Overcoming series is to enable people with a range of common problems and disorders to take control of their own recovery program. Each title, with its specially tailored program, is devised by a practising clinician using the latest techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy – techniques which have been shown to be highly effective in helping people overcome their problems by changing the way they think about themselves and their difficulties. The series was initiated in 1993 by Peter Cooper, Professor of Psychology at Reading University in the UK whose book on overcoming bulimia nervosa and binge-eating continues to help many people in the UK, the USA, Australasia and Europe. Titles in the series include: OVERCOMING ANGER AND IRRITABILITY OVERCOMING ANOREXIA NERVOSA OVERCOMING ANXIETY OVERCOMING BODY IMAGE PROBLEMS OVERCOMING BULIMIA NERVOSA AND BINGE-EATING OVERCOMING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA OVERCOMING CHRONIC FATIGUE OVERCOMING CHRONIC PAIN OVERCOMING COMPULSIVE GAMBLING OVERCOMING DEPERSONALIZATION AND FEELINGS OF UNREALITY OVERCOMING DEPRESSION OVERCOMING GRIEF OVERCOMING HEALTH ANXIETY OVERCOMING INSOMNIA AND SLEEP PROBLEMS OVERCOMING LOW SELF-ESTEEM OVERCOMING MOOD SWINGS OVERCOMING OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER OVERCOMING PANIC OVERCOMING PARANOID AND SUSPICIOUS THOUGHTS OVERCOMING RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS OVERCOMING SEXUAL PROBLEMS OVERCOMING SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SHYNESS OVERCOMING STRESS OVERCOMING TRAUMATIC STRESS OVERCOMING WEIGHT PROBLEMS OVERCOMING WORRY OVERCOMING YOUR CHILD’S FEARS AND WORRIES OVERCOMING YOUR CHILD’S SHYNESS AND SOCIAL ANXIETY OVERCOMING YOUR SMOKING HABIT All titles in the series are available by mail order. Please see the order form at the back of this book. www.overcoming.co.uk OVERCOMING HEALTH ANXIETY A self-help guide using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques ROB WILLSON AND DAVID VEALE ROBINSON London Constable & Robinson Ltd 3 The Lanchesters 162 Fulham Palace Road London W6 9ER www.constablerobinson.com First published in the UK by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2009 Copyright © Rob Willson and David Veale, 2009 The rights of Rob Willson and David Veale to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library. Important Note This book is not intended as a substitute for medical advice or treatment. Any person with a condition requiring medical attention should consult a qualified medical practitioner or suitable therapist. ISBN 978-1-84529-824-1 Printed and bound in the EU 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Table of contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Professor Peter Cooper 1 What is health anxiety? 2 How health anxiety develops and is maintained 3 Defining your problem, setting goals and finding direction 4 Dealing with anxiety-provoking thoughts and images 5 Understanding the process of worrying about your health 6 Learning to re-train your attention 7 Reducing anxiety by facing your fears 8 Getting the most from your doctor 9 Overcoming health anxiety in action 10 Overcoming a fear of death 11 Overcoming a fear of vomiting 12 Overcoming depression 13 Keeping health anxiety at bay 14 Helping someone overcome health anxiety 15 A guide to medication for health anxiety Appendix 1: Finding professional help Appendix 2: International support groups and charities Appendix 3: Exercises Further reading Index Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge all of the individuals who have health anxiety with whom we have worked. You have taught us much about this challenging problem, and are the inspiration for writing this book. We would like to acknowledge all of the clinicians and researchers who have contributed to the psychological understanding of health anxiety. A far from exhaustive list of these includes Paul Salkouskis, Adrian Wells, Ann Hackmann, Steven Taylor, Gordon Asmundonson and David M. Clark.
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