Gregoris Simos, Stefan G Hofmann

CBT for Anxiety Disorders

A Practitioner Book

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is now recognized as the most effective intervention tool for the treatment of a wide range of DSM anxiety disorders. A number of specific treatment protocols have been developed and disseminated in the form of various treatment manuals and books in recent years. CBT for Anxiety Disorders presents a comprehensive overview of the latest disorder-specific treatment techniques contributed by the foremost experts in various CBT approaches. Articles address a variety of topics that include treatment rationale, concrete clinical case examples, and therapist-patient dialogues. Each chapter also features helpful sub-sections on disorder-specific CBT techniques, treatment complications, dealing with comorbid disorders, and managing concurrent pharmacotherapy. CBT for Anxiety Disorders represents an invaluable "one-stop tool" and resource guide for researchers, clinicians, and students alike who are interested in the current state of knowledge on CBT approaches for the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780470975527
• ISBN-10: 0470975520
• Artikelnr.: 35306683

Autorenporträt

Gregoris Simos is Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Macedonia, Greece. Dr. Simos is the editor of CBT: A Guide for the Practicing Clinician, Volumes I (2002) and Volume II (2009), and a co-founder and President of the Greek Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies (GACBP). Stefan G. Hofmann is Professor of Psychology at Boston University and the Director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory. He is a former editor of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, incoming editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research, associate editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and 9 books, including An Introduction to Modern CBT (2011, Wiley-Blackwell). He is also the 2011 President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors vii

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes ix

Introduction 1
Gregoris Simos and Stefan G. Hofmann

1 Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia 3
Michelle G. Craske and Gregoris Simos

2 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Diagnosis,Theory, and Treatment 25
David A. Clark and Gregoris Simos

3 Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Targeting Intolerance ofUncertainty 57
Melisa Robichaud

4 Social Anxiety Disorder: Treatment Targets and Strategies87
Stefan G. Hofmann, Jacqueline Bullis, and Cassidy Gutner

5 Specific Phobias 107
Lars-Goran Ost and Lena Reuterskiold

6 Health Anxiety 135
Michel A. Thibodeau, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, and Steven Taylor

7 Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for PosttraumaticStress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder 161
Anke Ehlers

8 Culturally Appropriate CBT for the Anxiety Disorders 191
Devon E. Hinton and Martin La Roche

9 Newer Generations of CBT for Anxiety Disorders 225
Michael P. Twohig, Michelle R. Woidneck, and Jesse M. Crosby

Index 251

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List of Contributors vii List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes ix Introduction
1 Gregoris Simos and Stefan G. Hofmann 1 Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia 3
Michelle G. Craske and Gregoris Simos 2 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum
Disorders: Diagnosis, Theory, and Treatment 25 David A. Clark and Gregoris
Simos 3 Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Targeting Intolerance of Uncertainty
57 Melisa Robichaud 4 Social Anxiety Disorder: Treatment Targets and
Strategies 87 Stefan G. Hofmann, Jacqueline Bullis, and Cassidy Gutner 5
Specific Phobias 107 Lars-Goran Ost and Lena Reuterskiold 6 Health Anxiety
135 Michel A. Thibodeau, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, and Steven Taylor 7
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
and Acute Stress Disorder 161 Anke Ehlers 8 Culturally Appropriate CBT for
the Anxiety Disorders 191 Devon E. Hinton and Martin La Roche 9 Newer
Generations of CBT for Anxiety Disorders 225 Michael P. Twohig, Michelle R.
Woidneck, and Jesse M. Crosby Index 251

Rezensionen

This is an excellent book with outstanding contributions by theworld's experts on anxiety disorders. If you want to know thestate-of-the-art research, theory and treatment approaches foranxiety disorder then you must get this book. CBT for AnxietyDisorders: A Practitioners Book, edited by Gregoris Simos andStefan G Hofmann, is a book that I will recommend to all of ourtrainees and a book that I will use often.--ProfessorRobert L. Leahy, Director, American Institute for CognitiveTherapy, NYC.

The editors have assembled an impressive array of some of theforemost experts in the field of anxiety disorders. This textprovides a contemporary perspective of cognitive-behavioraltreatment that combines research findings with clinicalperspicacity. Each chapter is written in a clear and concisefashion and offers concrete clinical examples, yielding excellenthands on application. This book belongs in the library of anyserious researcher or practitioner who works with anxietydisorders. I highly recommend it.--Frank M. Dattilio,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has become the gold standardfor the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders around theworld. But CBT approaches have developed and changed with the timesbased on new scientific findings and clinical experience, and thisvery handy and readable reference written by leading internationalauthorities incorporates all of these changes. Anybody whotreats anxiety disorders with CBT will find this bookinvaluable.--Professor David H. Barlow, Professor ofPsychology and Psychiatry, Boston University

Effective treatments on a sound scientific basis: Anxietydisorders can be overcome, and this book shows the latestdevelopments how to help the patients.--Dr. Winfried Rief,Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapy and Head of the Clinic onPsychological Interventions, University of Marburg,Germany.

I find the book to be an excellent summary of cognitive therapytechniques as applied to problems encountered in clinicalpractice. It is scientifically and clinically sound,describing not only therapies that in the last decade have becomewell established, but also newer approaches that are emerging asvaluable additions to the therapist'srepertoire.--Walton T. Roth, M.D., Professor Emeritus ofPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School ofMedicine.