CBT For Anxiety Disorders (eBook)

Gregoris Simos is Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Macedonia, Greece. Dr. Simos is the editor of CBT: A Guide for the Practicing Clinician, Volumes I (2002) and Volume II (2009), and a co-founder and President of the Greek Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies (GACBP). Stefan G. Hofmann is Professor of Psychology at Boston University and the Director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory. He is a former editor of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, incoming editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research, associate editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and 9 books, including An Introduction to Modern CBT (2011, Wiley-Blackwell). He is also the 2011 President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

List of Contributors vii

List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes ix

Introduction 1
Gregoris Simos and Stefan G. Hofmann

1 Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia 3
Michelle G. Craske and Gregoris Simos

2 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Diagnosis, Theory, and Treatment 25
David A. Clark and Gregoris Simos

3 Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Targeting Intolerance of Uncertainty 57
Melisa Robichaud

4 Social Anxiety Disorder: Treatment Targets and Strategies 87
Stefan G. Hofmann, Jacqueline Bullis, and Cassidy Gutner

5 Specific Phobias 107
Lars-Göran Öst and Lena Reuterskiöld

6 Health Anxiety 135
Michel A. Thibodeau, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, and Steven Taylor

7 Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder 161
Anke Ehlers

8 Culturally Appropriate CBT for the Anxiety Disorders 191
Devon E. Hinton and Martin La Roche

9 Newer Generations of CBT for Anxiety Disorders 225
Michael P. Twohig, Michelle R. Woidneck, and Jesse M. Crosby

Index 251

This is an excellent book with outstanding contributions by the
world's experts on anxiety disorders. If you want to know the
state-of-the-art research, theory and treatment approaches for
anxiety disorder then you must get this book. CBT for Anxiety
Disorders: A Practitioners Book, edited by Gregoris Simos and
Stefan G Hofmann, is a book that I will recommend to all of our
trainees and a book that I will use often.--Professor
Robert L. Leahy, Director, American Institute for Cognitive
Therapy, NYC.

The editors have assembled an impressive array of some of the
foremost experts in the field of anxiety disorders. This text
provides a contemporary perspective of cognitive-behavioral
treatment that combines research findings with clinical
perspicacity. Each chapter is written in a clear and concise
fashion and offers concrete clinical examples, yielding excellent
hands on application. This book belongs in the library of any
serious researcher or practitioner who works with anxiety
disorders. I highly recommend it.--Frank M. Dattilio,
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has become the gold standard
for the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders around the
world. But CBT approaches have developed and changed with the times
based on new scientific findings and clinical experience, and this
very handy and readable reference written by leading international
authorities incorporates all of these changes. Anybody who
treats anxiety disorders with CBT will find this book
invaluable.--Professor David H. Barlow, Professor of
Psychology and Psychiatry, Boston University

Effective treatments on a sound scientific basis: Anxiety
disorders can be overcome, and this book shows the latest
developments how to help the patients.--Dr. Winfried Rief,
Professor of Psychology and Psychotherapy and Head of the Clinic on
Psychological Interventions, University of Marburg,
Germany.

I find the book to be an excellent summary of cognitive therapy
techniques as applied to problems encountered in clinical
practice. It is scientifically and clinically sound,
describing not only therapies that in the last decade have become
well established, but also newer approaches that are emerging as
valuable additions to the therapist's
repertoire.--Walton T. Roth, M.D., Professor Emeritus of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of
Medicine.