Reading List

A curated Reading List to support and extend learning from The CBT Five-Part Model for Stress Management in Pharmacy Practice.

This course uses the Five-Part Model as a CBT-informed framework for how thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, behaviours, and environmental pressures interact during stress. The resources below cover official guidance on CBT, practical self-help techniques, workplace stress, and support routes across the UK.

1. Core Pharmacy and Workplace Guidance

• GPhC - Standards for pharmacy professionals
  The professional standards for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in Great Britain. Useful for linking self-awareness, communication, judgement, and person-centred care to safe, sustainable practice under pressure.
  https://assets.pharmacyregulation.org/files/standards_for_pharmacy_professionals_may_2017_0.pdf

• NICE - Mental wellbeing at work (NG212)
  Current NICE guidance on workplace culture, prevention, and mental wellbeing at work. Helps clarify that managing stress also requires sensible workplace conditions and employer action, not only individual coping strategies.
  https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng212

• HSE - Work-related stress and how to manage it
  The Health and Safety Executive overview of work-related stress in Great Britain. Explains common causes, employer responsibilities, and organisational approaches alongside personal strategies.
  https://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/overview.htm

2. CBT and Practical Self-Help Techniques

• NHS - Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
  The NHS overview of CBT, how it works, and how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are linked. Serves as the core official background for the model used in this course.
  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-cbt/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Self-help CBT techniques
  A practical NHS collection of self-help tools based on CBT. Describes simple skills you can use day to day rather than a full therapy programme.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Thought record
  A structured NHS exercise for working through stressful thoughts. Useful for applying the thoughts-and-emotions element of the Five-Part Model with a concrete tool.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/thought-record/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Problem solving
  A practical NHS guide to breaking problems down and separating solvable issues from hypothetical worries. Supports the behavioural and environmental parts of the model and helps form clear next steps.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/problem-solving/

• NHS Every Mind Matters - Staying on top of things
  An NHS guide to turning useful techniques into regular habits and personal plans. Helps make a Five-Part Model stress plan part of routine practice rather than a one-off exercise.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/self-help-cbt-techniques/staying-on-top-of-things/

3. Support Routes Across the Four Nations

• England - NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression
  The main NHS route in England for accessing talking therapies. Appropriate when stress is persistent, extends into anxiety or low mood, or affects daily functioning beyond self-help.
  https://www.nhs.uk/talk

• Scotland - NHS inform: What to do if you are struggling with stress
  A Scotland-facing NHS page on stress symptoms, coping steps, and routes to further support. Useful for Scotland-specific signposting alongside the CBT and self-help resources above.
  https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/mental-wellbeing/stress/what-to-do-if-you-are-struggling-with-stress/

• Wales - HEIW Mental health
  An NHS Wales workforce wellbeing page that brings together mental health and practical support resources for staff in Wales.
  https://heiw.nhs.wales/workforce/workforce-wellbeing/mental-health/

• Northern Ireland - nidirect Workplace stress
  A Northern Ireland government resource on workplace stress, warning signs, responsibilities, and practical next steps.
  https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/workplace-stress

Use this Reading List to deepen your knowledge of the Five-Part Model, practical CBT techniques for stress, and the official support routes to consider when pressure requires more than self-help.