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Now in its fifth edition,
Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic, Therapist Guide provides practitioners with the tools necessary to deliver effective treatment for panic disorder and agoraphobia. Reflecting the most up-to-date research on etiology and treatment, as well as cutting-edge scientific information on inhibitory learning, this guide provides step-by-step instructions for teaching clients the skills to overcome their fear of panic and panic attacks, as well as techniques for addressing atypical and problematic responses.
List of contents
- PART I: BASICS
- Chapter 1: Introductory Information for Therapists
- Chapter 2: The Nature of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
- Chapter 3: Outline of Treatment Procedures and Basic Principles Underlying Treatment
- Chapter 4: Introduction to the Program
- Chapter 5: Learning to Record Panic and Anxiety
- Chapter 6: Negative Cycles of Panic and Agoraphobia
- Chapter 7: Panic Attacks Are Not Harmful
- PART II: COPING SKILLS
- Chapter 8: Establishing a Hierarchy of Agoraphobia Situations
- Chapter 9: Breathing Skills
- Chapter 10: Thinking Skills
- PART III: EXPOSURE TO FEARED SYMPTOMS AND SITUATIONS
- Chapter 11: Facing Physical Symptoms
- Chapter 12: Facing Agoraphobia Situations
- Chapter 13: Involving Others
- PART IV: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
- Chapter 14: Medications
- Chapter 15: Accomplishments, Maintenance, and Relapse Prevention
- Chapter 16: Therapist Guide for Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings MAP Workbook
- Appendix: Assessments for Panic Disorder
About the author
Michelle G. Craske, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Miller Family Endowed Term Chair, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center, and Associate Director of the Staglin Family Music Center for Behavioral and Brain Health, at UCLA. She has published extensively in the area of fear, anxiety and depression and has been the recipient of extramural funding since 1993 for research pertaining to cognitive, behavioral, psychophysiological and neural risk factors for anxiety and depression that have informed novel treatments; innovative approaches to optimizing therapies such as virtual reality; and implementing scalable treatment models to underserved populations.
David H. Barlow is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Emeritus and the Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. He has published over 650 articles and chapters and over 90 books and clinical manuals. He is the recipient of
numerous awards, including honorary degrees from the University of Vermont and William James College, and the two highest awards in psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association and James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science honoring individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research.
Summary
Now in its fifth edition, Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic, Therapist Guide provides practitioners with the tools necessary to deliver effective treatment for panic disorder and agoraphobia. Reflecting the most up-to-date research on etiology and treatment, as well as cutting-edge scientific information on inhibitory learning, this guide provides step-by-step instructions for teaching clients the skills to overcome their fear of panic and panic attacks, as well as techniques for addressing atypical and problematic responses. The program is organized by skill, enabling therapists to tailor treatment to individual clients, and case vignettes illustrate how panic disorder presents differently in clients-and how therapists can respond accordingly. The book also includes a chapter on adapting the treatment for effective delivery in 6 sessions within primary care and related settings. Written in accessible language aimed at facilitating comprehension and easy implementation, and complete with worksheets and activities to support learning, this Therapist Guide is a gold-standard one-of-a-kind resource that has been recommended for use by public health services around the world.
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These volumes are indisputably the finest evidence-based books for helping people overcome panic disorder. The 5th edition of the therapist guide is especially valuable as it features numerous, brief conversational vignettes featuring both common and atypical problems that Barlow and Craske have encountered during their long clinical careers and guidance on how best to address them.
