Health Anxiety (Hypochondriasis)

PsychologyTools Worksheets for Health Anxiety

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Pie Charts
Includes descriptions of how pie charts can be used to modify beliefs around inflated responsibility, and for maladaptive beliefs in health anxiety

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Threat System / Fight or Flight
Graphical explanation of how the fight or flight system readies the body for action

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Theory A / Theory B
Hypothesis A / Hypothesis B
Dual Model Strategy
A method for reframing a problem as a result of belief or worry, rather than as a result of a situation/fact. Includes 2 different versions of the worksheet, and two worked examples illustrating how to use it

Inlcudes health anxiety example

    

CBT for Health Anxiety presentation & learning materials PDF Download from nwlsbttraining.net

 

The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is an Australian mental health organisation that conducts research, provides training and supervision, and offers a clinical service. They have made some really useful resources for treating health anxiety

Health anxiety

Self-help Programme

  1. Understanding health anxiety
  2. How health anxiety develops
  3. What keeps health anxiety going?
  4. Reducing your focus on health symptoms and worries
  5. Re-evaluating unhelpful health-related thinking
  6. Reducing checking and reassurance seeking
  7. Challenging avoidance and safety behaviours
  8. Adjusting health rules and assumptions
  9. Healthy living and self-management planning

      

 




 

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