***This book comes with a link so that you can print out blank worksheets in a PDF format***

This book is designed for CBT therapists in training and for CBT therapists who would like a readily accessible portfolio of worksheets. You are welcome to photocopy or scan the blank sheets in this book and to hand them out to your clients.

We have included a range of exercises and diaries so that you can choose the worksheets that you think are most relevant for specific problems that you are working with.

In many cases, we have included explanations of exercises and examples of completed worksheets. We have also included a range of handouts that you can offer clients before or after your CBT sessions.

This book includes the following:

CBT maintenance formulations

The generic CBT cycle

Thoughts, feelings and behaviours cycle

Social anxiety models

The vicious flower model

The OCD model of anxiety

The panic model

Manning and Ridgeway’s self-phobic model (2013)

Interventions and exercises

The downward arrow exercise

NAT challenging form

Belief and rule-challenging exercises

Behavioural experiments

Responsibility pies

Safe place

Behaviour change diary

Positive CBT cycles

Behaviour goals sheets

Systematic desensitisation sheets

Exposure sheets

...and many, many, more

The Authors

Dr Nicola Ridgeway is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and an accredited cognitive and behavioural therapist. She lectured on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) at the University of East Anglia, Suffolk, England, and the University of Essex for many years. Together with Dr James Manning she has co-authored several books on CBT.

Dr James Manning is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and has post-graduate qualifications in both Clinical Psychology and Counselling Psychology. He has regularly offered workshops and training to clinicians throughout the United Kingdom on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and continues to work as a therapist.