Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Resources for Better Mental Health

The triangle in the middle represents CBT's tenet that all humans' core beliefs can be summed up in three categories: 

self, others, future.

Image from here.  CC BY-SA 3.0

DIY: How to do CBT: Appendix 1 from The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.  

     >  DIY instructions

     >  Includes 17 Categories of distorted automatic thoughts

Books to help you learn how to do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry. By Seth Gillihan.

2. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns *

3. The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You by Robert Leahy *

4. Get Out of Your Mind and in to Your Life by Steven Hayes *

5. Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn *

* These books are available through the Mercy Library in Oshkosh, or check your local public library.

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Websites and Apps to help you learn how to do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

1. www.findcbt.org - Find a therapist via the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

2. www.academyofct.org - Find a therapist via the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

3. The MindTrails program at the University of Virginia is a free training program in "cognitive bias modification.

4. If you want to get expert guidance on which mental health apps are based on empirical research, visit PsyberGuide.org. The blog has a lot of info on how social media affects mental health.

Both of these lists came from here.