Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How to Beat Your Fears and Worries
Helen Kennerley · 2011
82/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Helen Kennerley brings real clinical depth to this workbook — she's spent over thirty years as a CBT clinician and helped shape the Overcoming series into one of the most credible self-help lines in British publishing. The structure is smart: understand your own patterns first, then build a personalized toolkit from a range of evidence-based techniques. It's genuinely practical, not just reassuring, and the evidence base behind it is solid.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety95
Substance / usefulness83
Craft & writing80
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy88
Hype vs delivers85
Age-fit85
👁 Human-eye gut-check82
Penny’s verdict82
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