Free Printable PDF Workbooks, Manuals, & Self-Help Guides

Compiled by Cassie Jewell, M.Ed., LPC, LSATP

The following list is comprised of links to over 200 PDF workbooks, manuals, and guides that are published online and are free to use with clients and/or for self-help purposes. Some of the manuals, including Individual Resiliency Training and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychotic Symptoms, are evidence-based.

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For free printable PDF workbooks for youth and family, see Resources for Providers Who Work with Children, Adolescents, & Families.

For additional free printable resources for mental illness, substance use disorders, and self-improvement, see Sites with Free Therapy Worksheets & Handouts and Free Printable Therapy Handouts & Worksheets.

Free Printable PDF Workbooks, Manuals, & Self-Help Guides

For Mental Health Professionals & Consumers

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Substance Use Disorders & Addiction

A collection of free printable PDF workbooks, manuals, toolkits/self-help guides for substance and behavioral (i.e. food, gambling, etc.) addictions and recovery

There are several SAMHSA workbooks listed below; you can find additional free publications on SAMHSA’s website. For printable fact sheets and brochures, go to the National Institute on Drug Abuse website or the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. If you’re looking for 12-step literature, many 12-step organizations post free reading materials, workbooks, and worksheets; don’t forget to check local chapters! (See 12-Step Recovery Groups for a comprehensive list of 12-step and related recovery support group sites.) Other great places to look for printable PDF resources for addiction include education/advocacy and professional membership organization sites. (Refer to the Links page on this site for an extensive list.)

💜 = Resource for Veterans
🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQ Resource
🟡 = Treatment Manual
🟦 = Printable PDF Workbook

✅ 12 Step Workbooks 🟦 | (A list of PDF workbooks by Al Kohalek)
✅ Alcohol and You: An NHS Self-Help Guide | (25 pages)
✅ Alcohol Problems in Intimate Relationships: Identification and Intervention (A Guide for Marriage and Family Therapists) | (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 83 pages)
✅ ASI-MV Worksheets & Handouts 🟦 | (47 pages)
✅ Brief Counseling for Marijuana Dependence: A Manual for Treating Adults 🟡 | (Source: SAMHSA, 208 pages)
✅ Client Workbook 🟦 | (Source: Substance Use | Brain Injury Bridging Project, 144 pages)
✅ A Cognitive Behavioral Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction | (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 137 pages)
✅ Community Reinforcement and Family Training Support and Prevention | (Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 103 pages)
✅ Co-occurring Disorders Problem Gambling Integrated Treatment Manual 🟡 | (138 pages)
✅ Co-occurring Disorders Problem Gambling Integrated Treatment Workbook 🟦 | (135 pages)
✅ Co-occurring Disorders Treatment Manual 🟡 | (123 pages)
✅ Co-occurring Disorders Treatment Workbook 🟦 | (122 pages)
✅ Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery | (274 pages)
✅ A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders | (Source: CAMH, 222 pages)
✅ Harm Reduction Psychotherapy Toolkit | (23 pages)
✅ Mapping Your Recovery: A Peer-Based Model to Help You Through the Recovery Process | (60 pages)
✅ Mapping Your Reentry Plan: Heading Home | (Special Version for Criminal Justice Populations) (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 72 pages) 2007
✅ Mapping Your Steps: “Twelve Step” Guide Maps | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 140 pages) 2000
✅ Matrix Series (Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders): Client’s Handbook 🟦 | (Source: SAMHSA, 114 pages)
✅ Matrix Series (Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders): Client’s Treatment Companion | (Source: SAMHSA, 36 pages)
✅ Matrix Series (Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders): Counselor’s Family Education Manual 🟡 | (Source: SAMHSA, 176 pages)
✅ Matrix Series (Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorder): Counselor’s Treatment Manual 🟡 | (Source: SAMHSA, 268 pages)
✅ Matrix Series: Using Matrix with Women Clients | (Source: SAMHSA, 92 pages)
✅ The MISSION Consumer Workbook 🟦 | (Source: SAMHSA, 160 pages)
✅ My Action Plan for Relapse Prevention 🟦 | (42 pages)
✅ Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit | (Source: SAMHSA, 24 pages)
✅ Project MATCH Volume 1: TWELVE STEP FACILITATION THERAPY MANUAL A Clinical Research Guide for Therapists Treating Individuals With Alcohol Abuse and Dependence 🟡 | (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 140 pages)
✅ Project MATCH Volume 2: MOTIVATIONAL ENHANCEMENT THERAPY MANUAL A Clinical Research Guide for Therapists Treating Individuals With Alcohol Abuse and Dependence 🟡 | (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 138 pages)
✅ Project MATCH Volume 3: COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL COPING SKILLS THERAPY MANUAL A Clinical Research Guide for Therapists Treating Individuals With Alcohol Abuse and Dependence 🟡 | (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 116 pages)
✅ A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals | (Source: SAMHSA, 228 pages) 🏳️‍🌈
✅ Quit Smoking Guide | (16 pages)
✅ Reaching out to a Hurting World: Christ-Centered Workbook on Recovery and Coordinating Twelve-Step Meetings 🟦 | (Source: Recovery in Christ Ministries, 78 pages)
✅ Recovery Maintenance Workbook 🟦 | (Source: Pamela Garber, LMHC, 21 pages)
✅ Relapse Prevention Workbook 🟦 | (Click link to download, Source: Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc.)
✅ Screening and Assessment of Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System | (Source: CMHS National GAINS Center, 133 pages)
✅ SMART Recovery Toolbox
✅ Steps by the Big Book 🟦 | (122 pages)
✅ Straight Ahead: Transition Skills for Recovery | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 218 pages)
✅ Substance Misuse Workbook | (Source: Get Self-Help UK, 46 pages)
✅ Substance Use Disorder Curriculum Modules 🟡 | (Source: California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions, 114 pages)
✅ TCU Brief Intervention Manuals 🟡
- 🔹 TCU Brief Intervention: Getting Motivated to Change | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 63 pages) 2005
- 🔹 TCU Brief Intervention: Understanding and Reducing Angry Feelings | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 42 pages) 2005
- 🔹 TCU Brief Intervention: Ideas for Better Communication | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 39 pages) 2005
- 🔹 TCU Brief Intervention: Unlock Your Thinking, Open Your Mind | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 55 pages) 2005
- 🔹 TCU Brief Intervention: Building Social Networks | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research, 36 pages) 2005
✅ Therapeutic Community Curriculum: Trainer Manual 🟡 | (Source: SAMHSA, 292 pages)
✅ Tobacco Cessation: An Abbreviated Mini-Workbook (A Resource for Veterans) 🟦 | (27 pages) 💜
✅ Treatment Readiness and Induction Program (TRIP) | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 193 pages)

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Anxiety & Mood Disorders

Free printable PDF workbooks and other resources for anxiety (generalized, social phobia/anxiety, panic attacks), depressive and bipolar disorders, and prenatal/postpartum anxiety and depression

For additional PDF printable factsheets, brochures, and booklets, see SAMHSA, National Institute of Mental Health, NHS UK, CMHA, and education/advocacy sites listed on the Links page on this site.

💜 = Resource for Veterans
🟡 = Treatment Manual
🟦 = Printable PDF Workbook

Anxiety Disorders

✅ Always Embarrassed: Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 12 pages)
✅ Anxiety and Panic Attacks | (Source: Mind UK, 21 pages)
✅ Anxiety and Panic Disorder: Patient Treatment Manual 🟡 | (Source: Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety & Depression, 92 pages)
✅ Anxiety: An NHS Self-Help Guide | (24 pages)
✅ Anxiety: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide | (34 pages)
✅ Anxiety Disorders | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 26 pages)
✅ Anxiety Toolbox: Student Workbook 🟦 | (42 pages)
✅ Comprehensive Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Social Phobia: A Treatment Manual 🟡 | (102 pages)
✅ Coping With Anxiety | (Source: NHS, 40 pages)
✅ Coping with Panic Attacks | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Transforming Anxious Suffering Into a More Vital Life – Forms, Exercises, & Worksheets | (Source: A 2-Day Workshop with John P. Forsyth and Jamie R. Forsyth, University at Albany, SUNY & Union College, 67 pages)
✅ Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Patient Treatment Manual 🟡 | (Source: Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety & Depression, 72 pages)
✅ Helping Health Anxiety | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Managing Your Worries: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Evidence-Based Approach to Help You Overcome Your Generalised Anxiety Disorder | (Source: University of Exeter, 52 pages) 2019
✅ Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Treatment Manual 🟡 | (Source: ACT on Social Anxiety, 199 pages)
✅ The Mindful Path Through Shyness 🟦 | (Source: Mindful Living Programs, 77 pages)
✅ Panic: An NHS Self-Help Guide | (24 pages)
✅ The Panic Attack Workbook: A Workbook of Therapeutic Assignments 🟦 | (Source: Between Sessions Resources, 73 pages) 2017
✅ Panic: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide | (25 pages)
✅ Self-Help STOP Worry: A Tool for Older Veterans (Self-Help Workbook: Calming Tools to Manage Anxiety) 🟦 | (Source: South Central Veterans Affairs Mental Illness, Research and Clinical Centers, 51 pages) 💜
✅ Shyness & Social Anxiety: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide | (22 pages)
✅ Shy No Longer | (Source Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Social Anxiety: An NHS Self-Help Guide | (22 pages)
✅ Social Anxiety Group: Participant Workbook 🟦 | (Source: Hamilton Family Health Team, 102 pages)
✅ Social Phobia: Patient Treatment Manual 🟡 | (Source: Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety & Depression, 64 pages)
✅ Specific Phobias: Patient Treatment Manual 🟡 | (Source: Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety & Depression, 46 pages)
✅ What? Me Worry? (Workbook for Generalized Anxiety Disorder) 🟦 | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ When Fear Overwhelms: Panic Disorder | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 12 pages)
✅ When Worry Gets Out of Control: Generalized Anxiety Disorder | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 12 pages)
✅ Worry Management | (Source: Talk Plus, 12 pages)
✅ Your Best You: Managing Your Anxiety 🟦 | (Source: Queen’s University, 169 pages)

Depressive & Bipolar Disorders

✅ Antidepressant Skills Workbook 🟦 | (Sources: Simon Fraser University & BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 72 pages)
✅ Antidepressant Skills at Work: Dealing with Mood Problems in the Workplace 🟦 | (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 68 pages)
✅ Back from the Bluez | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Bipolar Disorder | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 31 pages)
✅ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Veterans and Military Servicemembers: Therapist Manual 🟡 | (Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 227 pages) 💜
✅ Dealing With Distress | (Source: Get Self-Help UK, 42 pages)
✅ Depression | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 26 pages)
✅ Depression | (Source: Mind UK, 19 pages)
✅ Depression and Low Mood: An NHS Self-Help Guide | (24 pages)
✅ Depression And Men | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 36 pages)
✅ Depression And Women | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 31 pages)
✅ Depression Management Tool Kit | (For clinicians, includes assessments and patient handouts, Source: SAMHSA, 44 pages)
✅ Depression Self-Help Guide | (Source: NHS)
✅ Depression Self-Management Toolkit | (Source: SunCountry Health Region, 88 pages)
✅ Healthy Living with Bipolar Disorder | (Source: University of Pittsburgh Bipolar Spectrum Services, 172 pages)
✅ Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression in Veterans: Therapist Guide | (Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 116 pages) 💜
✅ ISLAMIC INTEGRATED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY: 10 Sessions Treatment Manual for Depression in Clients with Chronic Physical Illness (Therapist Manual Workbook) 🟡 | (Source: Psychological Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 63 pages)
✅ Keeping Your Balance (Workbook for Bipolar Disorder) 🟦 | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Living Successfully with Mood Disorder: My Living Successfully Plan | (Source: Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, 12 pages)
✅ Overcoming Depression Series Workbook 1: Understanding Depression 🟦 | (Source: Dr. Chris Williams, 40 pages)
✅ Overcoming Depression Series Workbook 2: Practical Problem Solving 🟦 | (Source: Dr. Chris Williams, 19 pages)
✅ REBT Depression Manual: Managing Depression Using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy 🟡 | (Source: Babes-Bolyai University – International Institute for the Advanced Study of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, 33 pages)
✅ STABLE Resource Toolkit (STAndards for BipoLar Excellence) | (Source: SAMHSA, 67 pages)
✅ Understanding Bipolar Disorder | (Source: Mind UK, 32 pages)
✅ Your Best You: Improving Your Mood 🟦 | (Source: Queen’s University, 103 pages)

Postpartum Anxiety & Depression

✅ Coping with Anxiety During Pregnancy and Following the Birth: A Cognitive Therapy-Based Self-Management Guide for Women and Health Care Providers | (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 178 pages)
✅ Coping with Depression During Pregnancy and Following the Birth: A Cognitive Therapy-Based Self-Management Guide for Women | (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 118 pages)
✅ Gaining Control of Your Life After Having a Baby: A Self-Help Workbook for Post-natal Depression 🟦 | (Source: Maternal Mental Health Alliance, 38 pages)

✅ Managing Depression: A Self-Help Skills Resource for Women Living with Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond 🟦 | (Source: Best Start, 57 pages)
✅ Managing Depression: A Facilitator’s Guide for Working with Groups of Women Living with Depression During Pregnancy, After Delivery and Beyond 🟡 | (Source: Best Start, 42 pages)
✅ Postnatal Depression and Perinatal Mental Health | (Source: Mind UK, 31 pages)

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Schizophrenia & Psychotic Disorders

A small collection of free printable PDF manuals, toolkits, and guides for schizophrenia spectrum and related disorders

✅ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychotic Symptoms: A Therapist’s Manual (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions, 149 pages)
✅ Dealing with Psychosis: A Toolkit for Moving Forward with Your Life (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 115 pages)
✅ Hearing Voices and Disturbing Beliefs: An NHS Self-Help Guide (19 pages)
✅ Hearing Voices (Source: Mind UK, 13 pages)
✅ Illness Management and Recovery: Practitioner Guides and Handbooks (Source: SAMHSA, 361 pages)
✅ Patient & Family Guide to Second-Generation Antipsychotics (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 44 pages)
✅ Social Anxiety in Schizophrenia: A Cognitive Behavioural Group Programme (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions, 142 pages)
✅ Understanding Schizoaffective Disorder (Source: Mind UK, 24 pages)
✅ Understanding Schizophrenia (Source: Mind UK, 24 pages)

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Obsessive-Compulsive & Hoarding Disorders

Free printable PDF workbooks, manuals, and guides for obsessive-compulsive, hoarding, and related disorders and issues

✅ Hoarding Self-Help Manual
✅ I’ve got to be perfect! Helping yourself to… Overcome Perfectionism
✅ Obsessions & Compulsions: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide | (22 pages)
✅ Obsessions and Compulsions: An NHS Self-Help Guide
✅ Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Patient Treatment Manual | (Source: Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety & Depression, 20 pages)
✅ Perfectionism In Perspective | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ When Unwanted Thoughts Take Over: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 11 pages)

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Trauma & PTSD

Free printable PDF workbooks, manuals, and guides for trauma (including vicarious trauma) and PTSD

✅ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for PTSD: Group Manual (Source: Trauma and Deployment Recovery Services Clinic at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center, 93 pages)
✅ Cognitive Processing Therapy – Sexual Abuse (CPT-SA): Individual Treatment Manual 2012 (Source: Kathleen M. Chard, Ph.D., 82 pages) Additional CPT Resources
✅ Domestic Violence: An NHS Self-Help Guide (18 pages)
✅ Engaging Women in Trauma-Informed Peer Support: A Guidebook (Source: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, 93 pages)
✅ Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma: Recommended Solutions for Anti-Violence Workers (Source: Health Canada, 113 pages)
✅ Post-Traumatic Stress: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide (28 pages)
✅ Post-Traumatic Stress: An NHS Self-Help Guide (21 pages)
✅ Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Patient Treatment Manual (Source: Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety & Depression, 54 pages)
✅ Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Trauma Informed Care and Service Delivery (Source: Adults Surviving Child Abuse [ASCA], 154 pages, 2012)
✅ PTSD Recovery Program: Treatment Manual (for Veterans) (Source: Hunter Holmes McGuire VAMC, 75 pages)
✅ Self-Help Guide (For survivors of rape or sexual abuse who want to understand and process their own personal reactions to their experience) (Source: Somerset & Avon, 36 pages)
✅ Survivor to Thriver: Manual and Workbook for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Who Want to Move on with Life | Co-facilitator Training Manual (Source: The Norma J. Morris Center, 115 pages)
✅ Trauma-Informed Practice Guide (Source: BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 102 pages)
✅ The Trauma-Informed Supervisor, 3rd Ed. (Source: Fairfax County Trauma-Informed Community Network, 84 pages)
✅ Triad’s Women Project: Group Treatment Manual (168 pages) | Triad Girls’ Group Treatment Manual (201 pages) (Source: The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida) (More information on the Triad Project here)
✅ Women Healing from Trauma: A Facilitator’s Guide (Source: Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan, 109 pages)

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Eating Disorders

Free printable PDF workbooks and toolkits/guides for anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorders

✅ Binge Eating: Breaking the Cycle (A Self-Help Guide Towards Recovery) (Source: Bodywhys, 27 pages)
✅ Eating Disorders (Information Booklet) (Source: National Institute of Mental Health, Hosford Clinic, 26 pages)
✅ Eating Disorders: An NHS Self-Help Guide (18 pages)
✅ Eating Disorders Anonymous Step Workbook (Source: Eating Disorders Anonymous, 64 pages)
✅ Eating Disorders Toolkit for Primary Care and Adult Mental Health Services (Source: Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust/Sheffield Eating Disorders Service, 30 pages) 2014
✅ Eating Problems (Source: Mind UK, 24 pages)
✅ Educator Toolkit (Source: National Eating Disorders Association, 44 pages)
✅ Overcoming Disordered Eating (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Self-Help Manual for Bulimia Nervosa (Source: The Cullen Centre, 92 pages)

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Suicide & Self-Harm

Free printable PDF workbooks and toolkits/guide for suicide prevention and recovery and for non-suicidal self-injury

For additional resources for suicide, see Resources for Suicide Prevention & Recovery.

✅ After an Attempt: A Guide for Taking Care of Yourself After Your Treatment in the Emergency Department (10 pages) | Spanish Version (12 pages) (Source: SAMHSA)
✅ After an Attempt: A Guide for Taking Care of Your Family Member After Treatment in the Emergency Department (12 pages) | Spanish Version (14 pages) (Source: SAMHSA)
✅ A Handbook for Survivors of Suicide (Source: American Association of Suicidology, 36 pages)
✅ How to Support Someone Who Feels Suicidal (Source: Mind UK, 20 pages)
✅ The ‘Hurt Yourself Less’ Workbook (Source: The National Self-Harm Network, 78 pages)
✅ A Journey Toward Health & Hope: Your Handbook for Recovery After a Suicide Attempt (Source: SAMHSA, 40 pages)
✅ Self-Harm (Source: Mind UK, 17 pages)
✅ Self-Harm: An NHS Self-Help Guide (18 pages)
✅ Suicide Prevention for Behavioral Health Providers (Source: Montgomery County Emergency Service, Inc., 26 pages)
✅ Suicide Prevention for Consumers and Family Members (Source: Montgomery County Emergency Service, Inc., 26 pages)
✅ Working Through Self-Harm: A Workbook (Source: Harmless, 54 pages)
✅ Working with the Client Who Is Suicidal: A Tool for Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services (Sources: Simon Fraser University & BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, 120 pages)

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Grief & Loss

Free printable PDF workbooks and toolkits/guides for grief and loss

For additional resources for grief and loss, see Resources for Grief & Loss.

✅ After a Loved One Dies – How Children Grieve and How Parents and Other Adults Can Support Them (Source: New York Life, 24 pages)
✅ Back to Life: Your Personal Guidebook to Grief Recovery (Source: Recover From Grief, 71 pages)
✅ Bereavement: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide (13 pages)
✅ Bereavement: An NHS Self-Help Guide (16 pages)
✅ Complicated Grief (Source: The Hospice Support Fund, 19 pages)
✅ A LifeCare Guide to Helping Others Cope With Grief (Source: LifeCare, 23 pages) 2001
✅ On the Wings of Grief: A Bereavement Journal for Adults (Source: Simpler Times, 32 pages)
✅ Remembering for Good: Wholehearted Living After Loss (Source: Remembering For Good, 35 pages)
✅ Treatment of Individuals with Prolonged and Complicated Grief and Traumatic Bereavement (Source: The Melissa Institute, 59 pages)
✅ Understanding Death, Grief, & Mourning: A Resource Manual (Source: Cornerstone of Hope: A Center for Children, Teens, and Adults, 48 pages)
✅ When Grief Comes to Work: Managing Grief and Loss in the Workplace (A Handbook for Managers and Supervisors) (Source: AIDS Bereavement and Resiliency Program of Ontario, 220 pages) 2011

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Anger

Free printable PDF workbooks, manuals, and guides for coping with anger

✅ Anger (Source: Mind UK, 18 pages)
✅ Anger: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide (28 pages)
✅ Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: Participant Workbook (54 pages) | (Spanish Version) (73 pages) | (Provider Manual) (68 pages) (Source: SAMHSA)
✅ Anger Management Workbook (Source: Seasons Therapy, 38 pages)
✅ Anger Management Workbook: To Address Anger Management (Source: Community and Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) across England and Wales, 48 pages)
✅ Controlling Anger: An NHS Self-Help Guide (24 pages)

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Self-Esteem

✅ Building Body Acceptance (Workbook for Body Dysmorphic Disorder) | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Building Your Self-Confidence
✅ Caring Less About Your Looks | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ How to Increase Your Self-Esteem | (Source: Mind UK)
✅ Improving Self-Esteem | (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Just as I Am Workbook: A Guided Journal to Free Yourself from Self-Criticism and Feelings of Low Self-Worth | (Source: Queen’s University, 56 pages)
✅ Preparation for Change: The Tower of Strengths and the Weekly Planner | (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 84 pages)
✅ Self-Esteem Self-Help Booklet

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Healthy Relationships & Communication

✅ Assert Yourself! (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Couplets | (from #ThatsNotLove Discussion Guide Series)
✅ Getting to the CORE of Conflict and Communications (Sources: U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution and Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy, 45 pages)
✅ Healthy Relationships Resource Kit
✅ Healthy Relationships Toolkit
✅ Interpersonal Effectiveness: Building Better Boundaries (Source: The Self-Help Alliance, 62 pages)
✅ PREPARE/ENRICH Workbook for Couples
✅ Promoting Healthy Relationships
✅ The Stages of Divorce
✅ Time Out! For Me: An Assertiveness and Sexuality Workshop for Women (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 224 pages)
✅ Time Out! For Men: A Communication Skills and Sexuality Workshop for Men (Source: Texas Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU, 251 pages)

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Meditation & Mindfulness

✅ Adult Coloring Book for Mindfulness and Relaxation (Source: Healing From Burnout, 51 pages)
✅ The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice (Source: Buddha Dharma Education Association, 182 pages)
✅ How to Meditate: A Guide to Formal Sitting Practices (Source: Tara Brach, 16 pages)
✅ Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): Authorized Curriculum Guide (Source: Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, 65 pages)
✅ Self-Compassion and Mindfulness (Source: The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, 42 pages)
✅ Your Guide to Meditation (Source: Mindful, 26 pages)

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Resiliency, Personal Development, & Wellness

✅ The Bouncing Back Workbook: Building Skills that Strengthen Resilience (Source: South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, 36 pages)
✅ Creating a Healthier Life: A Step-by-Step Guide to Wellness (22 pages) | (Spanish Version) (22 pages) (Source: SAMHSA)
✅ Discover Your True Self Workbook (Source: Sacred Earth Partners, 22 pages) 2014
✅ Happiness 101 Workbook (Source: Patricia Thompson, PhD, 22 pages)
✅ Happy for No Reason Workbook (Source: Happy for No Reason, 28 pages)
✅ HERO: Healthy Emotions and ImpRoving Health Behavior Outcomes (Veteran Workbook) (110 pages)
✅ Hope Focused Self-Help Workbook (Source: The Hope Couples Project, 34 pages)
✅ How to be Mentally Healthy at Work (Source: Mind UK, 17 pages)
✅ Individual Resiliency Trainer (IRT) Manual (Source: Navigate, 974 pages)
✅ Journaling: A Wellness Tool (Source: Institute for Wellness and Recovery Initiatives, 18 pages)
✅ Overcoming Procrastination (Source: Wikibooks, 45 pages)
✅ Personal Brand Workbook (42 pages)
✅ The Procrastination Workbook: Kick the Habit! (Source: Mind Tools, 14 pages)
✅ Put Off Procrastinating (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Recognition | Insight | Openness Workbook
✅ Refine Your Life: Participant Guide (Source: Experience L!fe, 59 pages)
✅ Relaxation (Source: Mind UK, 9 pages)
✅ Resilience Toolkit (Source: NHS, 52 pages)
✅ Self-Determination Series: Express Yourself! Assessing Self-Determination in Your Life (Source: Center on Integrated Health Care and Self-Directed Recovery, 11 pages)
✅ Self-Determination Series: This Is Your Life! Creating Your Self-Directed Life Plan (Source: Center on Integrated Health Care and Self-Directed Recovery, 58 pages)
✅ Wellness in Eight Dimensions (Source: CSPNJ, 30 pages)
✅ Wellness Self-Management Personal Workbook, 3rd Ed. (Source: New York State Office of Mental Health, 210 pages)
✅ Wellness Worksheets, 12th Edition (Source: SAMHSA, 295 pages)
✅ “What Do You Want to Do with Your Life?” Your Life Plan to Find Your Answer (Source: Self-Help Starts Here, 136 pages)
✅ Working Minds UK: Developing Resiliency Exercises (Source: Working Minds UK Dovey Wilday Consultancy, 30 pages)

Forgiveness

- ✅ DIY Workbook Series from the Positive Psychology Research Group at Virginia Commonwealth University (All workbooks can be accessed through link)
  - 🔹 The Path to Humility: Six Practical Sections for Becoming a More Humble Person (84 pages)
  - 🔹The Path to Forgiveness: Six Practical Sections for Becoming a More Forgiving Person (83 pages)
  - 🔹Your Path to REACH Forgiveness: Become a More Forgiving Person in Less Than Two Hours
  - 🔹Moving Forward: Six Steps to Forgiving Yourself and Breaking Free from the Past (70 pages)
  - 🔹Experiencing Forgiveness: Six Practical Sections for Becoming a More Forgiving Christian: 6-7 hour DIY Workbook for Christians Hurt by Other Christians
  - 🔹The Path to Patience: Six Practical Sections for Becoming a More Patient Person: 6-7 hour DIY Workbook
  - 🔹The Path to Positivity: Six Practical Sections for Becoming a More Positive Person: 6-7 hour DIY Workbook
- ✅ Forgiveness Workbook: A Step by Step Guide
- ✅ Moving Forward: Six Steps to Forgiving Yourself (Self-Directed Learning Workbook), 2nd Ed. (Source: Virginia Commonwealth University/ForgiveSelf.com, 69 pages) 2015

Sleep

- ✅ Choosing Sleep: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Course (Source: Kind Minds, 27 pages) 2015
- ✅ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi): Treatment Manual
- ✅ Improve Your Sleep: A Self-Guided Approach for Veterans with Insomnia (Self-Help Workbook) (Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 90 pages)
- ✅ The Power of Sleep: Participant Workbook (Source: Pinellas County Employee Wellness Program, 64 pages) 2019
- ✅ Sleep Mode (Source: Human Performance Programs, 33 pages)
- ✅ Sleep Problems: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide (16 pages)
- ✅ Sleep Workbook: A Self-Help Guide (Source: NHS, 20 pages) 2019
- ✅ Your Guide to Healthy Sleep (Source: US Department of Health and Human Services, 72 pages) 2005

Stress

- ✅ Manage Stress Workbook (Source: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 20 pages)
- ✅ Managing Stress and Problems (Source: Neuroscience Treatment Team Partners, 132 pages) 2013
- ✅ Stress (Source: Mind UK, 15 pages)
- ✅ Stress: Moodjuice Self-Help Guide (24 pages)
- ✅ Stress: An NHS Self-Help Guide (19 pages)

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Self-Care

Free printable PDF workbooks, toolkits, and guides for self-care

✅ 21 Days to a More Impactful You Movement: Self-Care Challenge (Source: Move to End Violence, 24 pages) 2015
✅ 30 Day Self-Care Challenge Workbook (Source: But First Joy, 10 pages) 2019
✅ Building Self-Compassion (Source: Centre for Clinical Interventions)
✅ Caregiver Self-Care (Source: National Caregiver Training Program, 54 pages)
✅ Caregiving Around the Clock: Caregiver Self-Care Activity Book (Source: VA Caregiver Support, 20 pages)
✅ Flourish! Self-Care Toolkit (Source: Flourish!, 19 pages) 2017
✅ Self-Care Guide (Source: Mind Peace, 21 pages) 2018
✅ The Self-Care Project (Source: Jayne Hardy, 35 pages) 2017
✅ Self-Care Starter Toolkit (Source: Homewood Health, 12 pages) 2016
✅ Self-Care Toolkit (Source: Developed by SHAWN GOLDBERG, 44 pages)
✅ The Self-Care Workbook (Source: Happiness Mama – Heather Ash, 16 pages) 2016
✅ The Self-Care Workbook: Your Guide to Personal Growth and Loving Yourself (Source: TALIA MARCHEGGIANI, NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR , 19 pages) 2016
✅ What About You? A Workbook for Those Who Work with Others (Source: The National Center on Family Homelessness/Katherine T. Volk, Kathleen Guarino, Megan Edson Grandin, and Rose Clervil, 52 pages) 2008

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Nutrition & ExercisE

Free printable PDF workbooks, manuals, and guides for diet, physical activity, and health

✅ Basic Nutrition Workbook (Source: Nutrition Services Section/Nutrition Education/Clinic Services Unit/Texas Department of State Health Services, 46 pages) 2012
✅ Choosing Wellness: Healthy Eating (Source: Neuroscience Treatment Team Partners, 260 pages) 2013
✅ Florida Nutrition Training Guide (Nutrition Training Series): Basic Nutrition Module (Source: Florida Department of Health/Bureau of WIC and Nutrition Services, 172 pages) 2007
✅ Food and Mood (Source: Mind UK, 11 pages)
✅ Nutrition and Exercise for Wellness and Recovery Leader Manual (42 pages) and Participant Manual (70 pages) (Source: Center on Integrated Health Care and Self-Directed Recovery)
✅ Physical Activity and Your Mental Health (Source: Mind UK, 17 pages)

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CBT, DBT, & MI

The free printable PDF workbooks and other resources listed in this section may also be included in other sections of this post.

Please comment with links to additional PDF resources for therapy or self-help!

Author: Cassie Jewell

Cassie Jewell, introvert and avid reader, is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed substance abuse treatment practitioner with a Master's Degree in Community Counseling. View all posts by Cassie Jewell

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