What're your favorite patient workbooks?

[kugel]

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Do you have any favorite workbooks to recommend to patients?

I'm not talking about self-help prose or books about psychiatry/psychology or novels that describe a mental illness. I'm talking about a published set of exercises, tasks, etc. that are presented in an orderly, consecutive manner that is intended to help a patient work on their issues - as in daily or weekly homework.

In residency, we used Mind Over Mood
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Over-Moo...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266115158&sr=1-1

and Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic
http://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Your-...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266115042&sr=1-3

to good effect - and I liked using them. However, I'm reluctant to just recommend other ones just because they look good to me - and I hate to recommend that patients spend what miniscule money they have unless I know what I'm doing.

 

[maranatha]

We use the Burns books during CBT for depression. These are excellent for patients while doing CBT:
http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266115964&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-Therapy-Revised-Updated/dp/0380810336/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

For anxiety we also use the Treatments That Work as you have above including panic, OCD, GAD, and social anxiety disorder. I'm not sure they have a workbook for every disorder, but they have them for most. I tend to just follow the treatment guide and give the patients the handouts and homework. They're great books.

http://www.us.oup.com/us/companion.websites/umbrella/treatments/titles/?view=usa

This is a book for OCD that I will recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Lock-Yo...=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266116729&sr=8-9

 

[pingouin]

I've always liked The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook- only $20 or so, has homework and relaxation exercises, guided visualizations, etc. Plus there's a great section on explaining the somatic symptoms of panic in laymans' terms that I found to be tremendously helpful to my therapy patients.

I've also had some luck with The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide, but didn't use it quite as much.

Someone gave me an anger workbook I thought I liked, but flipped through it right before I recommended it to someone. Somehow when I got it, I never noticed it had a VERY Christian slant, which would not have been appreciated by my Jewish patient.

I second Mind Over Mood.