210 pages |
Treating generalized anxiety disorder, evidence-based strategies, tools, and techniques
Creator: Jayne L. Rygh, William C. Sanderson | Psychology - 2004-06-14
This authoritatively practical manual provides evidence-based tools and techniques for assessing and treating clients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
Publisher: The Guilford Press
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About this book
This enthusiastically practical manual provides evidence-based tools and techniques for assessing and treating clients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Proven cognitive-behavioral interventions are described in exquisite, step-by-step detail, together with illustrative case examples. With an emphasis on both accountableness and flexibility, the clinician is guided to select from available options, spin them into individualized treatment plans, and troubleshoot problems that may arise. For those clients who do not reciprocate well to CBT alone, the book also offers a chapter on cutting-edge supplementary interventions that have shown be in the cards in preliminary clinical trials. Special features include a money of reproducible materials-over 25 client handouts and forms, assessment tools, and more-presented in a at the ready large-size format. |
542 pages |
Anxiety disorders
Creator: David J. Nutt, James C. Ballenger | 2003-01-27
This earmark makes sense of these advances and presents a coherent account of diagnosis and administration from the clinical point of view.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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About this book
Impetuous developments in recent years in basic science and pharmacology has greatly increased reconciliation of the causes of anxiety disorders. This has led to a large number of new drug treatments from the pharmaceutical business. This book makes sense of these advances and presents a coherent tale of diagnosis and management from the clinical point of view.Chapters are in the method of surveys and digests of the recent literature and are interspersed with clinical guidelines, diagnostic and restorative points and are well illustrated. |
446 pages |
Generalized anxiety disorder, advances in research and practice
Creator: Richard G. Heimberg | Psychology - 2004
In the last decade, tremendous increase has been made in understanding and addressing generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), a prevalent yet long-neglected ...
Publisher: The Guilford Press
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About this book
In the last decade, tremendous going on has been made in understanding and addressing generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), a prevalent yet long-neglected syndrome associated with goodly functional impairment and reduced life satisfaction. This comprehensive, empirically based capacity brings together leading authorities to review the breadth of current acquaintance on the phenomenology, etiology, pathological mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of GAD. Provided are subconscious and neurobiological models of the disorder that combine cutting-edge research and clinical skill. Assessment strategies are detailed and promising intervention approaches described in measure, including cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, psychodynamic, and pharmacological therapies. Also covered are best issues in the treatment of GAD in children, adolescents, and older adults. |
316 pages |
Anxiety disorder research
Creator: Calvin M. Velotis | Psychology - 2005-04-30
This new volume brings together leading research from throughout the world.
Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
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About this book
Anxiety disorders are the most collective psychiatric illnesses affecting both children and adults. Anxiety disorders may emerge from a complex set of risk factors, including genetics, brain chemistry, identity, and life events. Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterised by excessive, unrealistic annoy that lasts six months or more; in adults, the anxiety may focus on issues such as health, in, or career. In obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) individuals are plagued by persistent, recurring thoughts (obsessions) that bring to light exaggerated anxiety or fears; typical obsessions include worry about being contaminated or fears of behaving improperly or acting violently. Fright Disorder, a third type of anxiety disorder, is when people suffer severe attacks of panic which may decamp them feel like they are having a heart attack or are going nuts for no apparent reason. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can make good an exposure to a traumatic event such as a sexual or physical assault,... |
247 pages |
Cognitive-behavioral treatment for generalized anxiety disorder, from science to practice
Creator: Michel J. Dugas, Melisa Robichaud | Psychology - 2006-11-14
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge
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About this book
Medical perception of the nature and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has dramatically increased over the past 15 years. Just out studies have shown that GAD is a common disorder, with one-year and lifetime prevalence estimates of approximately 1.6% and 5.1% respectively. Contrary to previously held assumptions, Gad leads to big distress and impairment, which translate into substantial personal, social, and pecuniary costs. Research into the nature of GAD has provided a number of theoretically-driven and empirically-supported conceptualizations have spawned cognitive-behavioral treatments for GAD, a few of which have received empiric support in controlled clinical trials.The main objective of this hard-cover is to present a detailed analysis of the etiology, assessment, and treatment of GAD by focusing on the cognitive-behavioral scale model and treatment options for GAD. Following chapters would provide a review of the pragmatic support for the different models of GAD, a detailed... |
Comments: 2
he sounds more like a dick than someone with anxiety disorder. i have an anxiety disorder and i was always very under suspicion of people doing things for me (making food, things like that), even those i trusted (like my mom), i would have terror-struck attacks for
It is formidable to recognise if he is really having a medical condition or if he is just tenderness insecure. A medical condition is when he starts to hyperventilate, his heart races, his hands hard work and he is unable to function because of extreme fear.
See anxiety treatments, at http://www.ezy-raise.net.nz/~shaneris on page 6: print/copy, or refer her post.