The CBT Workbook for Illness Anxiety - Blaise Worden, Johanna Kaplan

The CBT Workbook for Illness Anxiety

Buch | Hardcover
324 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-70733-4 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
This cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) workbook includes a detailed, step-by-step account of how to do scientifically supported treatment with adults experiencing illness anxiety.

Written by two practitioners with years of specialized training and expertise in CBT for anxiety, this book provides a comprehensive overview of illness anxiety disorder, and an exposure-based framework to target fear and avoidance. Detailed exercises and homework are included throughout, as well as charts, diagrams, and a relapse prevention plan. This workbook aims to give illness anxiety sufferers the skills needed to work through the therapeutic journey in decreasing anxiety and beginning recovery.

This book is essential for those with illness or health related anxiety looking to do self-help or to use with therapists in sessions, along with practicing clinicians who need specialized guidance.

Blaise Worden is a clinical psychologist and researcher at the Institute of Living, Anxiety Disorders Center, in Hartford, CT. Johanna Kaplan is a clinical psychologist and director of the Washington Anxiety Center of Capitol Hill (WACCH), in Washington, DC.

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Workbook

Common Psychological Disorders Associated with Anxiety about Health

Finding Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Illness-Related Anxiety

Why You May Want to Consider Medication

Getting a Baseline Assessment of Your Illness Anxiety

Motivation: Why Should I take the Risk?

Chapter 2: What Are My Problematic Health-Related Beliefs?

What Are Your Illness Fears?

When You are Anxious, You are Not Thinking Clearly

Calculating the Estimated Probability of Your Scariest Scenario

Chapter 3: What are My Problematic Health-Related Behaviors?

The Health Behaviors Checklist

Gaining Awareness by Monitoring Anxious Responses

The Vicious Cycle of Anxious Behaviors

Chapter 4: How Your Anxious Thinking Perpetuates Health Anxiety

Common Health Myths

Doing a Cost-Benefit Analysis of How Much Your Worry is Helping You

Chapter 5: Designing your Exposure Hierarchy

Approaching Health Fears

Tips for Refining Your Exposure Hierarchy

Starting Exposures

Chapter 6: Common Cognitive Distortions

Exposure Check-in and Troubleshooting

Common Cognitive Distortions that Contribute to Anxiety

Practice Talking Back to Your Anxious Thoughts

Chapter 7: Interoceptive Exposures

Check-In on Treatment Homework

Interoceptive Exposures

Core List of Interoceptive Exposures

Some Additional Interoceptive Exposure Examples

Chapter 8: Imaginal Exposures

Check-In on Treatment Homework Progress

Imaginal Exposures

Advanced Topic: Is Illness/Health Anxiety Simply a Fear of Death?

Religion, Spirituality, and Health Anxiety

Chapter 9: Giving Healthcare an Appropriate Role in Your life

Check-In on Treatment Homework

Moving Forward with Appropriate Health Behaviors

My Medical Decision Chart

Chapter 10: Living a Life in which Risk and Safety are Balanced

Check-In on Treatment Homework and Progress

Living A Valued Life and Accepting Anxiety

Chapter 11: Moving Forward and Embracing a Full Life

Your Love-Hate Relationship with Anxiety

If I'm Not Living Around My Health Anxiety, What Will I Spend My Time On?

Relapse Prevention

Reaching Out to a Professional

A Final (But Very Important) Note

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.11.2024
Zusatzinfo 47 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-032-70733-X / 103270733X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-70733-4 / 9781032707334
Zustand Neuware
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