Matthew Mckay: 34 books
Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anxiety
Everything You Need To Know in the Least Amount of Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
If your anxiety is getting in the way of living a normal life, you need help now, rather than later. What if you could dramatically improve your anxiety symptoms in just thirty minutes? In 30-Minute Therapy for Anxiety, you’ll discover proven anxiety-busting strategies and put them into practice...
Thoughts and Feelings
Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
You may struggle with anxiety and depression, or feel that procrastination or perfectionism is holding you back. Regardless of the issue, you’ve come to this book with a desire to change your thoughts and feelings for the better. This classic self-help workbook offers powerful cognitive therapy...
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
A Clear and Effective Approach to Learning DBT Skills
First developed for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven effective as treatment for a range of other mental health problems, especially for those characterized by overwhelming emotions....
Leave Your Mind Behind
The Everyday Practice of Finding Stillness Amid Rushing Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2007
We typically have little control over our thoughts, but we often invest them with a lot of authority—even when they contradict what our experiences tell us to be true. Take a moment right now and think There's a hungry grizzly bear sitting next to me. Chances are you didn't take that thought literally...
Your Life on Purpose
How to Find What Matters and Create the Life You Want
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
So many of us postpone pursuing our goals and dreams because we think we'll get to them later, when we have more time or feel we're worthy of them. As a result, many of us go through life feeling weighed down by daily responsibilities and our own self-doubts, entirely disconnected from a sense of...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems
Using Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Schema Awareness to Change Interpersonal Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems presents a complete treatment protocol for therapists working with clients who repeatedly fall into unhealthy patterns in their relationships with friends, family members, coworkers, and romantic partners. These clients may blame others,...
The Self-Esteem Companion
Simple Exercises to Help You Challenge Your Inner Critic and Celebrate Your Personal Strengths
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Self-esteem is an important part of leading a happy, fulfilling life. How we feel about ourselves affects every aspect of our lives, from the way we function at work, in love, and in sex, to the way we parent, to what we strive to achieve.
The Self-Esteem Companion is a step-by-step guide filled...
by Matthew McKay, PhD, Peter D. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2000
The Anger Control Workbook offers a new and highly effective approach to anger control that gives you the tools you need to manage anger in your day-to-day life. You’ll get a deeper understanding of how anger affects all areas of your life—both physically and emotionally—and within a few weeks...
ACT on Life Not on Anger
The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
Drop the Rope in Your Tug-of-War with Anger
If you've tried to control problem anger before with little success, this book offers you a fundamentally new approach and new hope. Instead of struggling even harder to manage or eliminate your anger, you can stop anger feelings from determining...
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Diary
Monitoring Your Emotional Regulation Day by Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Difficult emotions like anger, fear, sadness, guilt, and shame are part of being alive and are meant to help protect us, but when they get out of control, these emotions can also cause severe pain. When you're in the grip of an emotional storm, it's all too easy to overreact, lash out at others, or...
by Martha Davis, PhD, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook broke new ground when it was first published in 1980, detailing easy, step-by-step techniques for calming the body and mind in an increasingly overstimulated world. Now in its sixth edition, this workbook, highly regarded by therapists and their clients,...
Messages
The Communications Skills Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Many people assume that good communicators possess an intrinsic talent for speaking and listening to others, a gift that can’t be learned or improved. The reality is that communication skills are developed with deliberate effort and practice, and learning to understand others and communicate your...
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook Chapter Singles
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
If you suffer from anxiety, or symptoms of anxiety, there are real steps you can take to change the way your body responds. For example, progressive relaxation of muscles can reduce your pulse rate, blood pressure, and can work in much the same way as anti-anxiety medication. In this New Harbinger...
Parenting a Troubled Teen
Manage Conflict and Deal with Intense Emotions Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Raising a teen is tough—especially when your teen has trouble regulating their emotions and lashes out. This groundbreaking book will give you the tools you need to stop unwittingly reinforcing your teen’s bad behavior, reduce conflicts, and get your teen on track with the things that really matter.
If...