Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Cognitive Distortions – Unhelpful Thinking Styles (Extended)
Fight Or Flight Response
Cognitive Distortions – Unhelpful Thinking Styles (Common)
Therapy Blueprint (Universal)
Embracing Uncertainty
Intolerance Of Uncertainty
Worry Flowchart
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry (Second Edition): Workbook
What Keeps Generalized Anxiety And Worry Going?
Worry Postponement
Understanding Generalized Anxiety And Worry
Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (Second Edition): Client Workbook
Habituation
Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (Second Edition): Therapist Guide
Exposure Session Record
Catastrophizing
Interoceptive Exposure
Thought-Action Fusion
What Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Worry Thought Record
Cognitive Behavioral Model Of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD: Dugas, Gagnon, Ladouceur, Freeston, 1998)
Worry – Self-Monitoring Record
Uncertainty Beliefs – Experiment Record
Cognitive Behavioral Model Of Intolerance Of Uncertainty And Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms (Hebert, Dugas, 2019)
Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry (Second Edition): Therapist Guide
Rumination - Self-Monitoring Record
Am I Experiencing Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Recognizing Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
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Assessment
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Severity Measure For Generalized Anxiety Disorder
| Craske, Wittchen, Bogels, Stein, Andrews, Lebeu | 2013
- Scale – Adult
- Scale – Child Age 11-17
Guides and workbooks
- Generalised anxiety disorder: patient treatment manual | Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
Information Handouts
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Generalised anxiety and worry - information sheets
| Centre For Clinical Interventions
- What Is Generalised Anxiety?
- What Is Mindfulness?
- Mindfulness and Letting Go
- How Worry Works
- Postpone Your Worry
- Accepting Uncertainty
- What Is Distress Intolerance? | Centre For Clinical Interventions
Information (Professional)
- Intolerance of uncertainty model: a guide to using the Dugas & Robichaud CBT protocol for GAD | Helen Moya
Presentations
- Why worry? Key cognitive processes that maintain worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder | Colette Hirsch
Self-Help Programmes
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What? Me Worry? (Workbook)
| Centre For Clinical Interventions | 2015
- Module 1: Overview Of Generalized Anxiety
- Module 2: Overview Of Worrying
- Module 3: Challenging Uncontrollability Beliefs
- Module 4: Attention Training
- Module 5: Challenging Danger Beliefs
- Module 6: Challenging Positive Beliefs
- Module 7: Problem-Solving
- Module 8: Helpful Thinking
- Module 9: Accepting Uncertainty
- Module 10: Self Management Plan
Treatment Guide
- NICE Guidelines For GAD And Panic | NICE | 2011
Worksheets
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Anxiety (Worksheets)
| Centre For Clinical Interventions
- Anxiety Symptoms Record
- Breathing Rate Record
- Monitoring Relaxation
- Situational Exposure Diary
- Making The Connection
- Thought Diary 1
- Thought Diary 2
- Thought Diary 3
- Thought Diary (Tri-Fold)
- Behavioral Experiment Worksheet
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Generalised Anxiety And Worry (Worksheets)
| Centre For Clinical Interventions
- Postpone Your Worry
- Letting Go With Mindfulness
- Accepting Uncertainty
- Challenging Intolerance of Uncertainty
Recommended Reading
- Borkovec, Thomas D., & Newman, Michelle G. (1998). Worry and generalized anxiety disorder. In A. S. Bellack, & M. Hersen (Series Eds.), & P. Salkovskis (Vol. Ed.), Comprehensive clinical psychology: Vol. 6. Adults: Clinical formulation and treatment. (pp. 439-459). Oxford, England: Pergamon Press. | Borkovec, Newman | 1998
- Hirsch, C. R., & Mathews, A. (2012). A cognitive model of pathological worry. Behaviour research and therapy, 50(10), 636-646. | Hirsch, Matthews | 2012