The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook - by Leslie Sokol & Marci Fox (Paperback)

About the Book

Take control of your mental health today! Grounded within the basic principles of CBT, The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook is your go-to resource for taking healing into your own hands. Filled with over 50 practical exercise and worksheets, it will help you restructure your thinking, face your fears, curb your anger, resist unhelpful urges, and grow the most positive and accurate view of yourself. You can use it in conjunction with a chosen therapist or as a stand-alone guide to manage life's challenges with confidence and resolve. With this workbook at your side, you'll have the tools you need to act as your own therapist and face any difficulties that life throws your way, including: - Depression - Anxiety - Worry - Panic - Anger - Substance use - Problematic urges - And more! Using four easy-to-remember tools - a pause button, a focus flashlight, an OK monitor, and a compass - tweens will learn how to create a NowMap, a snapshot of their present-moment experience, so they can navigate all of life's moments with confidence and kindness. A NowMap shows tweens where they are right now so they can decide where they want to go next. Packed with over 40 games, exercises, and activities, NowMaps is every tween's sidekick for: - Identifying and discerning between thoughts and feelings - Enhancing interoceptive awareness - Learning how to respond thoughtfully rather than react automatically - Handling disappointment when things don't go as planned - Developing a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset - Navigating social conflicts and bumps in relationships - Learning coping skills when everything feels like "too much" - And more!

Book Synopsis

Take control of your mental health today!

Grounded within the basic principles of CBT, The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook is your go-to resource for taking healing into your own hands. Filled with over 50 practical exercises and worksheets, it will help you restructure your thinking, face your fears, curb your anger, resist unhelpful urges, and grow the most positive and accurate view of yourself.

You can use it in conjunction with a chosen therapist or as a stand-alone guide to manage life's challenges with confidence and resolve. With this workbook at your side, you'll have the tools you need to act as your own therapist and face any difficulties that life throws your way, including:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Worry
• Panic
• Anger
• Substance use
• Problematic urges
• And more!

Review Quotes

"When we're looking for relief from overwhelming emotions such as anxiety or anger, we need more than sound advice--we need specific tools that help us act on what we know. This workbook offers both excellent grounding in CBT and practical steps for applying these powerful principles in everyday life. If you're ready to make lasting changes for the better, I strongly recommend The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook."
--Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, author of The CBT Deck and Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

"Drs. Leslie Sokol and Marci Fox have indeed created the ultimate CBT workbook! It includes dozens of useful handouts for working through challenges with self-doubt, depression, anxiety, anger, urges, and more. The structured approach and clear language used by the authors help simplify the science of working with these complicated issues, and the written exercises provide the tools and practice necessary to manifest these principles in daily life. Highly recommended for both therapists and their clients!"
--Richard Sears, PsyD, ABPP, author of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness Toolbox and ACT with Anxiety

"Drs. Sokol and Fox's latest book, The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook, is a wonderful contribution to the field. It's both comprehensive in scope and highly practical for clinicians of all experience levels. The authors review the essential theoretical foundations underlying CBT and follow this up with highly applicable interventions for a variety of conditions, including depression, anxiety, anger, and urge control. There are a number of practical worksheets that can be readily applied with your clients. I learned a lot from reading this book, and I am confident you will too."
--David M. Pratt, PhD, MSW, author of the CBT Toolbox for Depressed, Anxious & Suicidal Children & Adolescents and the Advanced CBT Toolbox for Depressed, Anxious & Traumatized Youth

About the Author

Leslie Sokol, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized leader in the field of CBT with more than 35 years of experience in practice, teaching, and research. She was a past director of education and one of the principal instructors at the internationally acclaimed Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Philadelphia. She has lectured nationally and internationally on depression, anxiety, personality disorders, stress management, psychosis, substance abuse, and couples' problems.

Marci G. Fox, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who specializes in CBT with teens and adults. She has been in private practice for over 25 years and worked with the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy for almost the same amount of time. As an adjunct faculty member at the Beck Institute, she trains individuals in CBT both nationally and internationally, and helps mental health professionals improve their clinical skills and pinpoint specific areas of remediation.