Mental Health and ThriveRU Resources

Practical, step-by-step directions for the mastery of: Visualization Self-Esteem Nutrition Medication Meditation techniques Anxiety-triggering health conditions. The Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health (Norcross, et al., 2003) gave the book its highest rating and praised it as "a highly regarded and widely known resource."

Two anxiety experts team up to provide readers with these ten simple, engaging, proven-effective cognitive behavioral strategies to combat excessive worry, an energy-sapping condition that often leads to more serious anxiety-related problems.

Mastery of Your Fears and Phobias, Second Edition, Workbook outlines a cognitive-behavioral treatment program for individuals who suffer from specific fears and phobias, including fear of blood, heights, driving, flying, water, and others. Also available as an e-book: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/oculryerson/detail.action?docID=10215728

Success can be yours with Susan Jeffers's "Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway" The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the tools to face the fears that hold you back. We're all afraid of something: beginnings, endings, changing, getting stuck. But fear doesn't have to hold you back from happiness or success.

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) described himself as a "simple country boy" from Missouri but was also a pioneer of the self-improvement genre

Social anxiety disorder is the fear of situations that involve interaction with other peopleóranging from performance anxiety to shyness. If you struggle with shyness or social anxiety, this book offers a range of evaluations, exercises, and positive information you can use to work through your anxiety and become the vibrant life of the party.

Robert Sapolsky is an authority on the effects of stress and a skilled storyteller, making this a highly entertaining and informative account of how the body handles stress and what to do about it. He addresses stress-related ailments, from heart disease to bad moods, armed with wit and scientific fact.

An expert in the study of worry and anxiety provides women with simple, engaging, proven effective CBT and mindfulness-based exercises and strategies to combat excessive worry, freeing them up to lead a more productive, stress-free life.

Millions of people suffer from anxiety or panic attacks at least once in their lives. This guide teaches readers how to look fear in the face and live a happy, normal life.

Clearly defines and clarifies the common forms of anxiety, panic, and depression. The book also presents an overview of all the main approaches to these problems and how they have succeeded.

Helps readers take control of their worries and get their lives back on track. This book offers a toolkit of proven strategies that are drawn from cognitive-behavioral therapy, one of the most effective treatment for anxiety. It presents advice on psychotherapy and the use of anti-anxiety medications.

This thorough discussion and analysis of anxiety and related disorders looks at case studies, specific diagnostic categories, and treatments.

Anxiety experts Martin M. Antony, Ph.D. and Randi E. McCabe, Ph.D., provide readers who have at one time or another experienced seemingly unexplainable, intense mental and physical attacks of overwhelming fear with 10 simple and proven strategies for combatting panic attacks