Anxiety and Stress Management

Chicago CBM provides an aggressive and effective approach to treat: generalized anxiety, phobias, panic, and obsessive compulsive disorders. Within a supportive and positive relationship, participants learn to identify, analyze, and change situations that increase stress. Interventions include: coping skills analysis and training, systematic desensitization, progressive muscle relaxation, rational emotive therapy, and exposure with response prevention. This is a scientifically based approach (cognitive-behavior therapy) that helps people change. Our Center’s staff has also published research demonstrating its effectiveness .

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook by Davis, Eshelman and McKay.

CBM therapists find this book particularly helpful and often guide their clients through its techniques. Now in its sixth edition, this workbook, highly regarded by therapists and their clients, remains the go-to source for stress reduction strategies that can be incorporated into even the busiest lives. This new edition is updated with powerful relaxation techniques based on the latest research, and draws from a variety of proven treatment methods, including progressive relaxation, autogenics, self-hypnosis, visualization, and mindfulness and acceptance therapy. In the first chapter, you’ll explore your own stress triggers and symptoms, and learn how to create a personal plan for stress reduction. Each chapter features a different method for relaxation and stress reduction, explains why the method works, and provides on-the-spot exercises you can do to apply that method when you feel stressed. The result is a comprehensive yet accessible workbook that will help you to curb stress and cultivate a more peaceful life.

To read more about it, go to: newharbinger.com.