Description
Written by a leading expert in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this workbook offers powerful, evidence-based skills to improve your mental health, so you can get back to living your life!
Have you been struggling with sadness, worry, stress, or even insomnia? You certainly aren’t alone. As our world becomes an increasingly uncertain place, many people are discovering that they need help managing depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the gold standard treatment for these conditions. This comprehensive workbook distills the very latest CBT research into an easy-to-use guide you can use to start feeling better now.
In The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook, you’ll find proven-effective techniques to help you build resilience, deal effectively with life’s challenges, work through difficult thoughts and feelings, and improve your overall well-being. You’ll also discover cutting-edge CBT practices that target rumination, self-compassion, self-esteem, and chronic anger. By practicing each skill outlined in this workbook, you’ll build your own mental wellness toolkit to draw from when you need it most.
If you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, stress, or any other mental health concern, you don’t have to go it alone. This workbook will support you as you begin healing, step by step.
Leslie Silver, PhD, Director, Davis Anxiety Treatment Center (verified owner) –
Michael Thompkins’s “The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook” masterfully presents cognitive-behavioral theory and clinical technique in a well-organized and easily digestible format. It’s a great tool for clinicians, or for anyone seeking skills to decrease anxiety, improve mood and enhance interpersonal relationships. This workbook is a must read. Michael Thompkins proves, once again, to be an authority in the field of clinical psychology.
Leslie Silver, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
Founder and director of the Davis Anxiety Treatment Center
Melinda White, LMFT (verified owner) –
The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook by Michael Tompkins is a treasure trove of useful cognitive behavioral therapy skills. It contains a blend of relaxation and mindfulness strategies, along with assertiveness, interpersonal skills and time management /productivity concepts. There is a wide range of examples of each concept to help clients with their struggles. It is easy to understand yet thorough in its explanations of CBT strategies. I highly recommend this book.
Tamara Hartl, Ph.D., Pacific Anxiety Group (verified owner) –
This book is an essential guide for how to live more effectively. Anyone who wants to learn CBT should get this book as it explains how to apply some of the best skills that psychological science has to offer. I’m very glad this is now a resource available to people.
Lynn Martin, Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist, San Francisco Bay Area (verified owner) –
This book is superb. It takes eight important CBT evidence based skill-areas and distills them down into extremely user-friendly lessons. It targets complex problems, like procrastination, and offers skills and essential pearls of wisdom to address the problem. The book’s brilliance is in its simplicity. It will be extremely useful for my clients. Many thanks to Dr Tompkins for this outstanding workbook and contribution to mental health and well-being.
Daniella Cavenagh, Ph.D., ABPP, Clinical Psychologist (verified owner) –
This workbook is a terrific resource. Dr. Tompkins presents evidence-based CBT exercises in a clear, simple format that is easy to understand, giving both rationale and examples for each exercise. Helpful worksheets and instructions make this workbook easy to use on your own or with your therapist. This workbook is also a great tool for trainees learning to do CBT, as “self-practice” is an evidence-based way of enhancing learning. The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook is now on my go-to resource list for both clients and trainees!
Jonathan B (verified owner) –
“The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook” by Michael Tompkins is an indispensable resource. I found the books first chapter, focusing on motivation enhancement, a wonderful and important way to begin a discussion of change and CBT skill development.
Tompkins breaks down complex CBT principles into easily digestible sections that are reinforced through practical exercises. A reader will leave with strong mindfulness and thinking tools, skills to take action on goals, tools around interpersonal relationships, all through encouraging self-empowerment. I see this workbook as a wonderful resources for both individuals in therapy as an added resource or as a strand alone self-help workbook.
I consider “The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook” a must-have for anyone seeking to understand or apply CBT techniques effectively.
Thompson , Monique (verified owner) –
Michael Tompkins has devoted his career to disseminating evidence based tools and techniques for managing anxiety, depression, insomnia and stress. With this new book, he has combined his vast repertoire into a workbook that distills his expertise into a concise collection of tools and techniques. This workbook empowers the reader by articulating evidence based strategies for managing the life stress and emotional challenges that most of us will face in the course of our lives. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning how to manage life’s challenges and live life more fully. Highly recommended!
Girls Prime (verified owner) –
I loved this book from the moment I picked it up. The worksheets are super easy to understand and apply to your individual situation. Each skill/chapter is presented in a clear straightforward format that makes it easy to reference back to when needing a refresher or clarification on how to apply the information. I will definitely be keeping this book handy and referring back to it regularly.
Bridget Flynn Walker, Ph.D (verified owner) –
As a CBT clinician myself, I know that using the proper tools and strategies can truly change a person’s life. There are many books on anxiety and depression out there. The average reader of self-help books can get lost in the different approaches put forth. What is truly special about Dr. Tompkins’s book is that it is based on solid scientific research about what works. What you read in this book has been proven to be effective. Tompkins has a way of writing and presenting information that is highly readable, relatable and user friendly. I highly recommend this book to clinicians who need hands-on strategies and tools to use with their clients, as well as to lay readers who want to add effective ways to manage anxiety and depression to their personal repertoires. Let’s all put our “automatic thoughts on trial” (Chapter 4 Thinking Skills) and be present in the world rather than in our heads, mired in negative and anxious thoughts.
Heidi Ronfeldt (verified owner) –
Another clear, concise CBT workbook written by Michael Tompkins. As always, Tompkins not only does a great job of describing the core CBT skills, but also provides forms and tips to practice the skills and to make them part of your daily life. Unique to this book, Tompkins teaches strategies that can be applied to multiple emotional problems instead of just one specific problem, ie, anxiety. “The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook” is a fantastic resource for clients in CBT therapy, CBT clinicians, and anyone interested in using more CBT skills in their lives.
Steve Brock (verified owner) –
As Stevo’s Novel Ideas, I am a long-time book reviewer, member of the media, an Influencer, and a content provider. I received this book as a review copy from either the author, the publisher or a publicist. I have not been compensated for this recommendation. I have given it a Best of the Best designation for the month of September, 2022, as it stands heads above other recently published books on this topic or of this genre.
Daniela Owen, Ph.D. (verified owner) –
This clear, easy-to-follow, and thoughtful transdiagnostic workbook includes all of the important elements of CBT. By breaking the book into sections from motivation, mindfulness, and thinking to interpersonal effectiveness, relaxation, and time management Tompkins distills complicated concepts into useful and accessible exercises and practices. By moving the reader along through the key components of good, evidence-based CBT, this workbook is highly effective and user-friendly!
Tori Kelly (verified owner) –
I returned only because it didn’t apply to Case Management Skills Training, but rather Licenced Therapists
Sharon (verified owner) –
Loved this workbook and have already recommended it to many of my clients!! Dr. Tompkins has taken many familiar CBT concepts and organized them in a “user-friendly” way. Not only is it an excellent resource for therapists, but also a very clear step-by-step guide for clients who want to have a better understanding of CBT. If someone were to follow The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook on their own, they would have a big head start on “becoming their own therapist” – which is one of the goals of CBT!
Kudos to Dr. Tompkins for another great contribution to our therapy world!