The Whole-Brain Child Workbook

You may have encountered The Whole-Brain Child, Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson's how-to manual aimed at helping you...

Raise calmer, happier children using twelve key strategies, including

• Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain's affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
• Engage, Don't Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
• Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child's emotional state.
• Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
• SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
• Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success.

With half of the book's twelve key strategies loaded up, you may be ready to launch straight into the companion Whole-Brain Child Workbook. This time via worksheets, the book...

[G]ives parents the tools and skills necessary to not only parent more effectively but to help their children grow into emotionally healthy, flexible and happy adults who can sustain intimate connections.

Sounds like a plan. Good luck!

DBT Skills Training Workbook

Some therapies are so worksheet friendly, they warrant a workbook. DBT is so worksheet friendly that there's a workbook written by the creator of the therapy, Marsha Linehan: DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets.

Insomnia Workbooks

Lots of people struggle trying to get a good night's sleep. Tossing, turning, mind racing, sweating through sheets, the whole bit. There are ways to improve your sleep. Most using approaches rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. In CBT, you look at your thoughts, look at your behaviors, look at your reactions, and move forward. Toward that end, here's a collection of insomnia workbooks at Amazon. Poke around, see what looks good, and maybe avoid an unwanted sunrise or two. Good luck!

Mindfulness for OCD

From the new Mindfulness Workbook for OCD, by Jon Hershfield and Tom Corboy, here's a linked chapter about Relationship OCD (hit "click here to read an excerpt").  What's Relationship OCD? From the excerpt:

ROCD is difficulty in tolerating uncertainty about the quality of a relationship and the genuineness of your feelings about another person. This isn’t the typical doubt you might expect when, say, one person is ready for marriage and the other isn’t. This is the kind of doubt that seeps in insidiously and chips away at the very concept of love and fidelity. 

Much more about using mindfulness-based CBT to take on OCD symptoms in the workbook.

ACT Worksheets

Posted at jamesdrew.net, a series of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Worksheets.

They're grabbed (with permission) from Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & Trauma-Related Problems.

DBT Skills Workbook

This DBT workbook may come in handy (especially for therapists): Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills, 101 Mindfulness Exercises and Other Fun Activities for Children and Adolescents shortens and simplifies handouts from the Linehan original and adds new ones--for kids of all ages.

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook

Google Books has the first sections of many workbooks posted and ready for your workbooking. One example, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, by McKay, Wood, and Brantley. There are a full 139 pages posted, including lots of worksheets, lots of reading. After 139 pages, you'll know for certain whether you want to buy the book. You may not even need it anymore.

Anger Management Worksheets

At scotens.org, a 19-page collection of Anger Management Worksheets from the book Anger Management - A Practical Guide. Includes checklists, logs, tips, and etc.

Guildford Press Workbooks

At guilford.com, links to dozens of sample chapters and free worksheets. The site also links to Google previews--makes for good, time-consuming browsing.

Too much clicking? Here's a link straight to The Anti-Anxiety Workbook. Note: If you're shopping, all of the above are usually less expensive through Amazon and the TW Bookstore.

"Treatments That Work" Worksheets

A big collection of CBT worksheets await you at Oxford University Press's Treatments That Work Downloadable Tools page. Lots of topics covered: hoarding, gambling, anxiety, social anxiety, ADHD, and on from there. For some you need the books they come from, but not all. Here's the set for Fears & Phobias:

Avoidance and Coping Strategies

Bodily Sensations Worksheet

Changing Phobic Thinking

Exposure Hierarchy

Phobic Encounter Record

Thought Record

Series favorites are posted at the Therapy Worksheets Bookstore--browse away...

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

Recommended: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. Explains mindfulness and helps you put it into practice with lots of worksheets, logs, and a disc full of mindfulness mp3s. Good stuff. Check out a sample chapter and mp3 at the book's site, mbsrworkbook.com.

Unlearn Your Pain

New from Mind-Body MD, Howard Schubiner:  Unlearn Your Pain.  The workbook uses various approaches, including mindfulness meditation and guided journaling, to help reverse difficult-to-treat chronic pain by getting at its underlying causes in stress and intense emotion. The workbook distills Schubiner's online Mind Body Program--more explanation on the site.

Peaceful Mind

Not a worksheet, not even a workbook, but a CBT/mindfulness book that comes strongly recommended:  Peaceful Mind: Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Psychology to Overcome Depression.

Workbooks--CBT, self-esteem, anger management, and others--are collected at the TW-Amazon Bookstore.

Eating Disorder Recovery Guide

A free workbook by Joanna Popink, MFT is posted here at eatingdisorderrecovery.com  Title:  "Triumphant Journey, a self guided workbook to help you recover from an eating disorder."

Abuse Survivor Workbooks

A new collection of Abuse Survivor Workbooks at the Therapy Worksheets Bookstore.  Not therapy substitutes, but maybe good in addition.

Best-Ever Therapy Book List

At wheretheclientis.com, a reader-generated list of the Best-Ever Therapy Books.  Two categories--for therapists and for everyone.  Pile on:  Email, comment, or, better still, tweet your nominations (hashtag #therapybooks). 

A couple of workbooks already nom'd as of this posting:  Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, by Stephen Hayes and The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, by Martha Davis, et al.  Got a favorite?  Add it!

Mindfulness and Acceptance for Depression

At the Therapy Worksheets Bookstore, check out the Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression, by Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson.  It's a "third wave" approach to tackling depression.  Instead of challenging and replacing negative thoughts as in o.g. CBT, clients are encouraged to acknowledge and accept their moods.  The concept being, depression and anxiety (covered in another workbook) are along for the ride, but you're in charge, you don't have to let them take the wheel.

OCD Guides

From ocdchicago.org, a set of OCD Guides--one each for adults, college students, teens, and parents of children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Also, check out the site's recommended books list--includes The OCD Workbook.

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic

Worth remembering, not all great worksheets are posted for free on the web. Sometimes, you've got to go workbook. One stand-out: Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic. Plenty of others, in a variety of categories, are available at the Therapy Worksheets Bookstore. Still more to suggest (or worksheets you'd like to share)? Write therapyworksheets [at] gmail.com.

Anger Control Workbook

Free online worksheets not enough for you? There's always the Therapy Worksheets Bookstore. For anger management, check out The Anger Control Workbook. Might be worth the $.