Self help resources
Beating the Blues | Mood Gym | Moodjuice | Living Life to the Full | Recommendations for self-help literature and Internet resources
Emotional coping skills self-help manual
This manual covers a wide range of self-help guidance and is a good starting point for dealing with any emotional difficulty.
Click here to download our self help manual
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Beating the Blues
Beating the Blues is a computerised cognitive behavioural therapy for depression and anxiety.
If you are stressed, feeling down or unable to cope, Beating the Blues may help you to feel better. Depression and anxiety are extremely common and cognitive behavioural therapy has been used successfully to treat them for many years. Beating the Blues is an easy to use self help computer programme using cognitive behavioural therapy, running over eight consecutive 50 minute sessions.
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Mood Gym
Moodgym is an online course that aims to help you to identify and overcome problem emotions. The course, which you can complete at your own pace, helps you to develop good coping skills.
http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/
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Moodjuice
This website offers self-help literature on a variety of issues including anger, anxiety, assertiveness, bereavement, depression, insomnia, obsessions and compulsions, panic, post-traumatic stress, shyness and social phobia.
www.moodjuice.scot.nhs.uk
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Living Life to the Full
Living Life To The Full is also an online course that aims to help you to identify and overcome problem emotions. The course, which you can complete at your own pace, helps you to develop good coping skills.
www.livinglifetothefull.com
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Recommendations for self-help literature and Internet resources
We have a recommended book list. Local bookshops keep many of the books in stock or are happy to order them. We also run a books on prescription service from the local libraries (please talk to your GP or practitioner about this)
Overcoming Panic - Silove, Derek
Overcoming Anxiety - Kennerley, Helen
Panic Attacks - Ingham, Christine
How to stop Worrying - Tallis, Frank
The Relaxation & Stress Workbook - Davis, Robbins, Eshelman & McKay
Stop Obsessing: How to Overcome your Obsessions and Compulsions - Foa & Reid
Overcoming Traumatic Stress - Herbert, Claudia
Coping with Anxiety & Depression - Trickett, Shirley
Overcoming Social Anxiety & Shyness - Butler, Gillian
Letting go of anxiety & depression - Dryden, Windy
Mind Over Mood - Greenberger, Padesky
The Feeling Good Handbook - Burns, David
Overcoming Depression - Dryden, Windy & Opie, Sarah
Getting better bit(e) by bit(e) - Treasure, Janet, & Schmidt, Ulrike
Through Grief- The Bereavement Journey - Collick, Elizabeth
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