What is Panic?
Biology & Psychology of Panic
Vicious Cycle of Anxiety
Breathing Retraining
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Behavioural Experiments
Situational Exposure
Physical Sensations and Panic
What are Safety Behaviours?
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Breathing Rate Record
Anxiety Symptoms Record
Monitoring Relaxation
Situational Exposure Diary
Internal Exposure Record
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Coping with Panic Attacks: This workbook is designed to provide you with some information about panic attacks and panic disorder and suggested strategies for how you can manage your panic and anxiety. It is organised into modules that are designed to be worked through in sequence. Although it is not necessary that you complete one module before going on to the next, this is recommended. Each module includes information, worksheets, and suggested exercises or activities.
This module describes panic attacks and panic disorder and looks at the symptoms of panic.
The aim of this module is to provide you with some more detailed information on how panic attacks actually develop. This module will also describe how panic attacks develop into panic disorder and what treatment strategies may be useful.
This module describes automatic thoughts and explores how thoughts influence feelings.
This module explores how you can use a thought diary to monitor the unhelpful thoughts that can lead to how you feel about a particular situation.
This module describes a number of common unhelpful thinking styles that can lead to negative emotions.
Module 6 explores how you can examine and challenge unhelpful thoughts by expanding the thought diary described in Module 4.
This module describes how you can summarise how you have challenged unhelpful thoughts by producing a balanced thought.
Core beliefs are often at the root of unhelpful thoughts that are particularly difficult to change. This module looks at core beliefs and how to change them.
The aim of this module is to give you information about how to challenge your beliefs about panic symptoms by actually experiencing them. Research has shown that this is particularly important in being able to successfully overcome panic symptoms and distress about panic symptoms.
The aim of this module is to give you information about exposure to activities and situations in which you are worried that panic attacks might occur.
This module describes how you can reduce your anxiety by gaining control of your breathing.
This final module describes how to maintain gains and continue the progress that has been made throughout the previous modules.
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Last Updated: 05/11/2019