Clinical handbook of fear and anxiety : maintenance processes and treatment mechanisms

The Clinical Handbook of Fear and Anxiety is a comprehensive guide to the understanding and treatment of clinical anxiety and related disorders. As the editors demonstrate, the clear delineations implied by DSM and ICD diagnoses are illusory when it comes to real-life clinical anxiety. This is because symptoms are shared among different diagnoses, meaning that the same patient can be diagnosed in a variety of ways leading clinicians to recommend different treatments that can have radically different outcomes. This volume therefore offers a shift in perspective. Chapters in Part I highlight the key psychological processes (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, threat overestimation) that maintain clinical anxiety. Then in Part II, contributors examine empirically supported mechanisms of change (e.g., exposure, cognitive restructuring, acceptance) that are effective across a range of anxiety presentations and are found in a variety of effective treatments. The editors' transdiagnostic approach helps clinicians connect theory with the practical realities of mental health treatment. "This book covers a more efficient framework for understanding and targeting the processes shown to contribute to clinical anxiety in its various manifestations, irrespective of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM65) or International Classification of Diseases (ICD611) diagnosis. Specifically, and diverging from a disorder-based focus, the chapters in this book delineate key empirically supported maintenance processes and theorized mechanisms of change (e.g., inhibitory learning) driving treatment efficacy. Understanding, assessing, and treating clinical anxiety at this functional level allows clinicians to use cognitive and behavioral methods to their maximum capacity. The book is organized into two parts. Each chapter in Part I defines and describes a general format in which the psychological maintenance process. It discusses the process's conceptual implications (i.e., how it contributes to the maintenance of clinical anxiety) and describes methods for assessing the process, including self-report, interview, and observational methods. Finally, it highlights the clinical implications of the process using case examples to illustrate how a therapist might encounter this process in their clinical work with patients presenting with clinical anxiety. The chapters in Part II focus on candidate mechanisms of change thought to explain how treatment works, describing methods for implementing therapeutic techniques that activate the particular change mechanism. The book finally enables clinicians working with patients with anxiety to slip the restrictive bonds of DSM65 and ICD611 diagnoses and treatment manuals and operate more flexibly and with a richer understanding of cognitive and behavioral principles and mechanisms of change."--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) "This book covers a more efficient framework for understanding and targeting the processes shown to contribute to clinical anxiety in its various manifestations, irrespective of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM65) or International Classification of Diseases (ICD611) diagnosis. Specifically, and diverging from a disorder-based focus, the chapters in this book delineate key empirically supported maintenance processes and theorized mechanisms of change (e.g., inhibitory learning) driving treatment efficacy. Understanding, assessing, and treating clinical anxiety at this functional level allows clinicians to use cognitive and behavioral methods to their maximum capacity. The book is organized into two parts. Each chapter in Part I defines and describes a general format in which the psychological maintenance process. It discusses the process's conceptual implications (i.e., how it contributes to the maintenance of clinical anxiety) and describes methods for assessing the process, including self-report, interview, and observational methods. Finally, it highlights the clinical implications of the process using case examples to illustrate how a therapist might encounter this process in their clinical work with patients presenting with clinical anxiety. The chapters in Part II focus on candidate mechanisms of change thought to explain how treatment works, describing methods for implementing therapeutic techniques that activate the particular change mechanism. The book finally enables clinicians working with patients with anxiety to slip the restrictive bonds of DSM65 and ICD611 diagnoses and treatment manuals and operate more flexibly and with a richer understanding of cognitive and behavioral principles and mechanisms of change."--Préface The Clinical Handbook of Fear and Anxiety is a comprehensive guide to the understanding and treatment of clinical anxiety and related disorders. As the editors demonstrate, the clear delineations implied by DSM and ICD diagnoses are illusory when it comes to real-life clinical anxiety. This is because symptoms are shared among different diagnoses, meaning that the same patient can be diagnosed in a variety of ways—leading clinicians to recommend different treatments that can have radically different outcomes.
 
This volume therefore offers a shift in perspective. Chapters in Part I instead highlight the key psychological processes (e.g., intolerance of uncertainty, threat overestimation) that maintain clinical anxiety. Then in Part II, contributors examine empirically supported mechanisms of change (e.g., exposure, cognitive restructuring, acceptance) that are effective across a range of anxiety presentations and are found in a variety of effective treatments. The editors’ transdiagnostic approach helps clinicians connect theory with the nuts and bolts of how change really happens in mental health treatment.
  Provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding and treatment of clinical anxiety and related disorders. As the editors demonstrate, the clear delineations implied by DSM and ICD diagnoses are illusory when it comes to real-life clinical anxiety. This Book Is A Comprehensive Guide To The Psychological Processes And Empirically Supported Mechanisms Of Change That Are Relevant Across Diverse Presentations Of Clinical Anxiety.