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

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 Contributors......Page 9 Preface......Page 11 Acknowledgments......Page 13 Series Editor's Note......Page 15 CH 1 Anxiety Disorders: An Overview......Page 19 CH 2 Clinical Case Presentation: The Case of Sandra......Page 50 CH 3 Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment......Page 61 CH 4 Problem-Solving Therapy......Page 91 CH 5 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy......Page 128 CH 6 Context-Centered Therapy......Page 155 CH 7 Contextual Family Therapy......Page 178 CH 8 Adlerian Therapy......Page 199 CH 9 Interpersonal Psychotherapy......Page 224 CH 10 Person-Centered Therapy......Page 241 CH 11 Supportive-Expressive Psychotherapy......Page 256 CH 12 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy......Page 281 CH 13 Psychopharmacological Treatment......Page 305 CH 14 Comparison of Treatment Approaches......Page 323 Appendix......Page 330 Index......Page 359 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 Anxiety is a universal phenomenon experienced by all human beings at one time or another during the course of their lives.