The Metacognitive Therapy Workbook

“The Metacognitive Workbook” consists of a series of worksheets with some of the most important exercises used in the metacognitive method. These exercises and reflection questions are designed to help you develop your metacognitive skills to reduce the time you spend worrying and ruminating. As you read through this workbook, you will find clear explanations of the most important metacognitive terms and concepts.

The workbook is designed for those who are undergoing therapy. Over time as you work with this workbook, you will be able to follow your own progress, noticing which of the exercises and reflection questions you find to be the most helpful.

The purpose of this workbook is to reduce the time you spend overthinking, particularly the excessive focus spent on negative thought processes. Most importantly, this workbook will help you increase your awareness, while experiencing that you can have control over your own thought processes. All these exercises are designed to foster your psychological well-being. Thus, this workbook will become an important, personal tool because the real work towards positive change requires practical training.