Distress Skills Patient Workbook - Printed Book

This is a physical product that can be shipped internationally. 

The Distress Skills Patient Workbook (Printed Edition) is a professionally printed, full-colour workbook designed to help people manage overwhelming emotions, reduce distress, and build practical emotional regulation skills in everyday life. Rather than printing worksheets yourself, this ready-to-use physical workbook arrives professionally bound and prepared for personal use — making it easier to engage consistently with the exercises, reflections, diary cards, and coping strategies inside.

Built around evidence-based approaches including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), this workbook combines psychoeducation with highly practical exercises to help people better understand emotional overwhelm, panic, distress, impulsive reactions, and nervous system dysregulation.

Unlike books that are simply read once and then shelved, this workbook is designed to be actively completed. Users write directly into the pages, track patterns over time, complete distress analyses, practise coping skills, and build personalised emotional regulation plans throughout the workbook. Because of this, each workbook is intended for individual use — one workbook per person.

Inside the workbook:

• Distress Cycle worksheets
• SUDS (Subjective Units of Distress) tracking tools
• Grounding and mindfulness exercises
• STOP skill and distress tolerance strategies
• Panic and hyperventilation management tools
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training scripts
• Diary cards and progress trackers
• Opposite Action and Check the Facts worksheets
• Plan your Coping with a  “Stack Your Skills” exercise
• Reflection tools for recognising emotional themes and triggers

Perfect for:

• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Trauma and PTSD recovery
• Emotional dysregulation
• DBT and distress tolerance work
• Burnout and overwhelm
• Therapy homework and between-session practice
• Frontline workers and high-stress professions

Why choose the printed edition?

• No printing required
• Professionally formatted and ready to use
• Easier to engage with consistently than loose worksheets
• Ideal for therapy homework and journaling
• Tangible, structured skill-building resource
• International shipping available

This workbook is designed to become an active recovery companion — something to write in, revisit, reflect on, and practise with over time. The combination of practical exercises, visual learning, psychoeducation, and structured reflection helps people move beyond simply understanding distress and towards actually managing it more skilfully in real life.

Developed by Jessica O'Garr and Dr Al Griskaitis for The Psych Collective