Anxiety Disorders: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments (Springer Series on Comparative Treatments for Psychological Disorders) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826120911 ISBN 13: 9780826120915

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Robert A. DiTomasso, PhD, ABPP, is Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Elizabeth A. Gosch, PhD, serves dual roles in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as Director of the MS Program in Counseling and Clinical Health Psychology and as a core faculty member of the PsyD program in Clinical Psychology.

From the Back Cover

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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. "

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826120911
• ISBN 13: 9780826120915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: DiTomasso Robert A.