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Comparative Treatments for Anxiety Disorders
Contributor(s): Ditomasso, Robert A. (Editor), Gosch, Elizabeth A. (Editor)
ISBN: 0826148328     ISBN-13: 9780826148322
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $122.55  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: August 2002
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Annotation: Anxiety disorders are costly, common, and debilitating. They often present challenging problems in the caseloads of practicing clinicians today. This volume compares and contrasts various models of and treatment approaches to anxiety disorders. Each contributor, a master clinician, analyzes the same case and presents a thorough description of the model. Detailed descriptions of therapists' skills and attributes, assessment plans, treatment goals, intervention strategies, common pitfalls and mechanisms of change are included. Among the 11 therapies presented are Cognitive-Behavioral, Problem-Solving, Acceptance and Commitment, Contextual Family Therapy, Supportive-Expressive, Psychodynamic, and Psychopharmacological. The volume concludes with a useful table that succinctly summarizes the tenets of all these major approaches. For practitioners, graduate students, and professionals preparing for licensure.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior
- Psychology | Neuropsychology
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - General
Dewey: 616.852
LCCN: 2002019469
Series: Springer Series on Comparative Treatments for Psychological
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.88" W x 9.28" (1.38 lbs) 368 pages
 
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Anxiety disorders are costly, common, and debilitating. They often present challenging problems in the caseloads of practicing clinicians today. This volume compares and contrasts various models of and treatment approaches to anxiety disorders. Each contributor, a master clinician, analyzes the same case and presents a thorough description of the model. Detailed descriptions of therapists' skills and attributes, assessment plans, treatment goals, intervention strategies, common pitfalls and mechanisms of change are included.

Among the 11 therapies presented are Cognitive-Behavioral, Problem-Solving, Acceptance and Commitment, Contextual Family Therapy, Supportive-Expressive, Psychodynamic, and Psychopharmacological.

The volume concludes with a useful table that succinctly summarizes the tenets of all these major approaches.

For practitioners, graduate students, and professionals preparing for licensure.