Anxiety Resources

Books & Workbooks

Health Worries/Hypochondriasis

Asmundson, Gordon J.G. and Taylor, Steven: It’s Not All in Your Head: How Worrying About Your Health Could Be Making You Sick– and What You Can Do About It

Comprehensive Self-help Workbooks for All Anxiety Disorders

Bourne, Edmund: The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook (Fourth Edition)
Bourne, Edmund: Coping with Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear & Worry
Burns, David: When Panic Attacks: The New Drug-Free Anxiety Therapy That Can Change Your Life
Davis, McKay, Eshelman: The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
Ramirez-Basco, Monica: Never Good Enough: How to Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage Without Letting it Ruin Your Life
Smits, Jasper and Otto, Michael: Exercise for Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Otto, Pollack, Barlow: Stopping Anxiety Medication: Panic Control Therapy for Benzodiazepine Discontinuation

Specific Phobias

Antony, Craske, and Barlow: Mastering Your Fears and Phobias (workbook) from the Treatments That Work” series
Ridley, Layne: White Knuckles: Overcoming the Fear of Flying
Brown, Duane: Flying Without Fear: Effective Strategies to Get Your Where You Need to Go

Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia

Barlow, David and Craske, Michelle: Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic
Carbonell, David: Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick
Wilson, Reid: Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks (3rd Edition)

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Craske, Michelle and Barlow, David: Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry
Brantley, Jeffrey: Calming Your Anxious Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Anxiety, Fear, and Panic
Davis, McKay, Eshelman: The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
Ramirez-Basco, Monica: Never Good Enough: How to Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage Without Letting it Ruin Your Life
Benson, Herbert and Proctor, William: Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Your Personal Health through the Science & Genetics of Mind Body Healing
Lackner, Jeffrey: Controlling IBS the Drug-free Way: A 10-step Plan for Symptom Relief

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Freedom from OCD by Jonathan Grayson
Stopping the noise in your head by Reid Wilson
Brain Lock by Schwartz
Stop Obsessing by Foa and Wilson
Hyman, Bruce and Pedrick, Cherry: The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Foa, Edna and Kozak, Michael: Mastery of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach!

Social Anxiety Disorder

Hope, Heimberg, Turk: Managing Social Anxiety (workbook)
Rapee, Ronald: Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide
Markway, Carmin, Pollard, & Flynn: Dying of Embarrassment
Antony, Martin and Swinson, Richard: The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven, Step-by-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear
Erika Hilliard:Living Fully With Shyness and Social Anxiety: A Comprehensive Guide to Gaining Social Confidence
Soifer, Zqourides, Himle, Pickering: Shy Bladder Syndrome: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Paruresis
Fine, Debra: The Fine Art of Small Talk

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Foa, Edna: Reclaiming Your Life From a Traumatic Experience (workbook)
Hickling, Edward, and Blanchard, Edward: Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident (workbook) from the “Treatments That Work” series
Olasov, Barbara and Foa, Edna: Reclaiming Your Life After Rape: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (workbook)
Williams, Mary Beth and Poijula, Soili: The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms
Follette, Victoria and Pistorello, Jacqueline: Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems
U.S Department of Health and Human Services: Directory of Services and Resources for Survivors of Torture

Impulse Control Disorders

Includes: Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), skin picking, pathological gambling, compulsive stealing, pyromania/fire setting, compulsive buying

Penzel, Fred: The Hair-Pulling Problem: A Complete Guide to Trichotillomania Grant, Donahue, Odlaug: Overcoming Impulse Control Problems (workbook)
Ladouceur, Robert, and Lachance, Stella: Overcoming Your Pathological Gambling (workbook)
Woods, Douglas, and Twohig, Michael: Trichotillomania: An ACT-enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach
Shulman, Terrence: Something for Nothing: Shoplifting Addiction and Recovery

Apps

Self-Help Anxiety Management

Download: iTunes

Key features:

Clearly laid out menus
User guidance
External links
Self-monitoring of anxiety with graphical display
25 self-help options covering: Information about anxiety, Thinking and anxiety, Physical relaxation, Mental relaxation, Health and Anxiety
Guidance on putting self-help into practice
Closed social network of SAM users

The content of SAM is presented in various media formats in order to support users in learning about anxiety and practicing self-help. Although not text-heavy, users will need to study the guidance to get the best out of SAM. Users are encouraged to build their own Anxiety Toolkit of SAM resources that they find helpful and to draw on this for regular practice in managing situations that are associated with anxiety.

MindShift

Download: Google Play, iTunes

MindShift is an app designed to help teens and young adults cope with anxiety. It can help you change how you think about anxiety. Rather than trying to avoid anxiety, you can make an important shift and face it.

MindShift will help you learn how to relax, develop more helpful ways of thinking, and identify active steps that will help you take charge of your anxiety. This app includes strategies to deal with everyday anxiety, as well as specific tools to tackle: Test Anxiety, Perfectionism, Social Anxiety, Performance Anxiety, Worry, Panic.

Headspace

Download: Google Play, iTunes

Meditation and Mindfulness. Within the App, there are “packages” focused on different areas such as Happiness, Anxiety, Work Performance, Student, Athletic Performance. There are also “one-off” mindfulness apps to assist with general support, and a section of Headspace for Kids.

PE Coach

Download: Google Play, iTunes

PE Coach is the first mobile app designed to support the tasks associated with prolonged exposure treatment for PTSD. It is through the VA. Providing hip-pocket access to the necessary tools for successful PE participation, the app includes audio recording capability for easy playback after sessions; tools to support patient tasks between sessions; and visual displays of symptom reduction over time. In addition, PE Coach is integrated with smartphone calendar functionality to encourage patient recall and session attendance.

PE Coach will help providers and patients overcome certain barriers to PE implementation, dissemination, and adherence.

PTSD Coach

Download: Google Play, iTunes

Cognitive behavioral techniques to promote self-management of PTSD symptoms. Developed jointly by VA’s National Center for PTSD and DoD’s National Center for Telehealth & Technology.

CPT Coach

Downloads: Google Play, iTunes

Another app built from the Dept of the VA. This application is not a self-help application. It is made for patients to use with their therapists during CPT for PTSD. CPT Coach helps users to self-learn about CPT therapy. Furthermore, it has function to track user’s symptoms over time. It also has worksheets and assignment sections for patients to work on between sessions. Lastly, it has alert function for next appointment, and able to track tasks that users did between sessions.

Social Phobia

Download: Google Play, iTunes

Beat Social Phobia with Andrew Johnson ($2.99)

This application is a guided audio program intended to help users overcome social phobia and anxiety in social situations.

Worry Box

Download: Google Play

Use the worry cognitive diary to help you determine how to cope with the worry. If it’s controllable, you can list the steps you can take to manage the worry. If it’s not controllable, select from the list of coping statements to help you think about it differently.