Updating and reformulating Aaron T. Beck's pioneering cognitive model of anxiety disorders, this book is both authoritative and highly practical. The authors synthesize the latest thinking and empirical data on anxiety treatment and offer step-by-step instruction in cognitive assessment, case formulation, cognitive restructuring, and behavioral intervention. They provide evidence-based mini-manuals for treating the five most common anxiety disorders: panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. User-friendly features include vivid case examples, concise "Clinician Guidelines" that reinforce key points, and over three dozen reproducible handouts and forms. Winner--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award!
For fuller descriptions of treatment, see Morrison and Westbrook (2004); Salkovskis, Forrester, Richards, and Morrison (1999); Simos (2002); and Wells (1997). Common Complicating Factors There is extensive overlap between health anxiety ...
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy has been demonstrated to be the most effective form of treatment for social phobia. This volume addresses the psychopathology and heterogeneity of social phobia, creating interventions with case examples.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, regardless of the specific type of fear that is causing difficulties.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: From Science to Practice provides a review of the empirical support for the different models of GAD.
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes a detailed case formulation framework, a flexible treatment planning algorithm, and over 90 pages of user-friendly reproducibles.
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In fact, their psychological problems led to 7 fewer weeks of work per year, a loss of 20% in potential income, and a lifetime loss for each family that had a depressed family member of $300,000 (Smith & Smith, 2010).
Written and edited by an international team of leading experts in the field, this is a key text for researchers, practitioners, students and clinical trainees with interests in child and adolescent anxiety.