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What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders : Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions.
What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on changing a patient's relationship to anxiety in order to enable enduring recovery rather than m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why Details Make a Difference
- Introduction
- Reasonable Goals
- Techniques Are Not the Answer
- 2 The Basics
- Three General Characteristics of Highly Anxious People
- Anxiety Feels Dangerous
- How an Anxiety Disorder Differs from Plain Anxiety
- The Three Types of Triggers
- The Defining Aspect of an Anxiety Disorder
- The Basic Principle: Identify and Treat Avoidance
- 3 A Contemporary View of Anxiety Disorders
- Sensitivity and Anxiety
- A Discussion of Causation
- Insight: Cause Versus Maintenance
- Primary Versus Secondary Gains
- Studies on Causation
- The Dilemma of Insight
- Consequences of Affect Intolerance
- The Value of Talking about Anxiety Symptoms
- A Direct Approach to Treating Anxiety Disorders
- The Neurological Perspective: Role of the Amygdala in Sensitization
- The Value of Exposure
- The Fear-maintaining Cycle
- Avoidance, Resistance, Neutralization
- The Phenomenology of Anxiety: Anxiety Alters Consciousness
- With Anxiety, Common Sense Makes No Sense
- The Paradoxical Attitude
- 4 The Therapeutic Attitude of Acceptance
- Approaching Anxiety Mindfully
- Embracing Anxiety
- The Role of the Therapist
- Teaching Metaphors
- Essential Elements to the Therapeutic Attitude of Acceptance
- 5 Getting Started
- The First Contact Must Instill Hope
- Immediate Help: Embed Information in Your Questions
- Get the Details
- Find Out What They Have Tried
- Introduce the New Paradigm: Offer a More Profound Change Than Techniques
- Provide Information and Answer Questions
- 6 Techniques Your Patients Have Probably Already Tried and Misunderstood: What They Are and How to Make Them Helpful
- The Problem with Techniques
- How Techniques Can Be Helpful.
- Techniques Are Temporary Help, Not Goals
- Emergency Coping
- Techniques That Can Be Helpful: "What Is," Not "What If?"
- Anxiety Management Tricks That Easily Backfire
- Diaphragmatic Breathing
- Anxiety Management in Cases of Real Danger, Not False Messages
- Some Issues in Determining Patient Progress
- 7 Diagnoses: An Annotated Tour of the Anxiety Disorders
- Specific Phobias
- Panic Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Traumatic Anxieties
- 8 Exposure: The Active Ingredient
- Exposure in the History of Psychotherapy
- Exposure Therapy Is More Than "Just Do It"
- Role of the Therapist During Exposure: What to Say and Do
- Exposure Can Be an Intrinsic Part of Diagnosis and Assessment
- Exposure for Patients with Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Exposure and Response Prevention
- OCD with Purely Mental Obsessions and Compulsions
- The Right Way to Practice Exposure
- 9 The Curious Case of Worry
- Varieties of the Worry Experience
- A Caveat: Generalized Anxiety Disorder-Rarely a Stand-alone Diagnosis
- Worry Is Not an Affect: It Is Thinking-And Thoughts Are Not Facts
- Productive Versus Unproductive Worry
- An Important Insight: Some Worry Thoughts Raise Anxiety and Some Lower It
- The Therapeutic Perspective on Worry
- About Worry and Time: The Role of Urgency
- Evaluating Worry
- Rumination: A Different Kind of Worrying
- Coping with Worry: What Doesn't Work
- Coping with Worry: Strategies That Work
- 10 Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: All Bark and No Bite
- How Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts are Maintained
- Living with Joy Despite Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
- Treating Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts
- Issues for Therapists: Varieties of Presentation
- Issues for Therapists: Therapist Anxiety and a New Construct
- Exposure to Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts.
- 11 Classic Pitfalls: Common Mistakes Non-Specialists Make
- Pitfall Number 1: Turning the Causation Arrow Around
- Pitfall Number 2: Pathological Doubt OCD-Misidentifying OCD Thoughts as Issues and the Seduction of Co-compulsions
- Pitfall Number 3: Intrusive Thoughts or Doubts about Sexual Orientation or Identity-Misdiagnosing OCD Thoughts as a Sexual Issue
- Pitfall Number 4: Get Your Feelings Out
- Pitfall Number 5: Mistakes in the Application of Exposure-based Treatment
- 12 Another View of Resistance: Issues that Interfere with Treatment
- When People Come Back Without Doing Home Practice
- Anticipatory Anxiety: When People Need Help Getting over the Hump
- The Reassurance Junkie: When People Are Constant Callers
- 13 Some Hard to Treat Problems: A New Perspective
- Illness Worries (Health Anxiety and Hypochondria)
- Scrupulosity (Religious and Secular)
- Emetophobia (Fear of Vomiting)
- Paruresis (Shy Bladder Syndrome)
- 14 Relapse Prevention
- Anxiety Disorders Are Chronic Intermittent Disorders: They Come Back
- The Most Enduring Recovery Is When Symptoms Do Not Matter
- Search and Destroy: The Role of Subtle Avoidance
- The Role of Psychotherapy in Relapse Prevention
- The Proper Place for Stress Management
- Finally
- Appendix 1 Additional Metaphors
- Appendix 2 A Summary of the Labeling Process That Can Be Given to Patients
- Appendix 3 How to Learn Diaphragmatic Breathing
- Appendix 4 Anxiety Diary
- Index.