Bücher der Reihe Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders

Contemporary culture includes a high awareness of personal and global health hazards. Treating Health Anxiety gives prescribing and non-prescribing clinicians, as well as the counselors and social workers who encounter the problem, the tools to reduce both the fears and the medical costs that so often accompany them.

There is still scant clinical information on trichotillomania. The authors share their considerable expertise in treating body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (not only hair-pulling but skin-picking and nail-biting as well) in an accessible, clinically valid reference.

Disorders of anxiety and substance use are, for some reason, rarely treated in an integrated fashion by professionals.

Strategies rooted in Eastern concepts of acceptance and mindfulness have demonstrated some promise in treating anxiety, especially in tandem with CBT. This book offers clinically valid definitions of acceptance and mindfulness, explaining their compatibility with more goal-driven and problem-solving therapies.

This book covers the major historical aspects, characteristics, asse- ment strategies, and psychological treatment techniques for youths with social anxiety and social phobia. Chapters 6-9 provide a description of treatment techniques that are most relevant and empirically supported for youths with social anxiety and social phobia.

Insomnia is often undiagnosed, or treated as a symptom of anxiety. This is the first guidebook for clinicians that considers the evaluation and management of insomnia and related sleep disturbances that occur conjointly with the common anxiety disorders.

Comprehensive yet accessible, this book addresses difficulties in anxiety treatment. It opens windows onto anxiety disorders and offers insights into how and why treatment works. It includes a section on special populations with an emphasis on comorbidity.

This is a single resource offering theoretical perspectives and reviews of research on the link between health behaviors and physical illness to anxiety. The authors explore the idea of reciprocal relations between anxiety and health factors throughout the developmental course.

Few syndromes in psychopathology generate as much popular curiosity and clinical exploration as does obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

This book surveys the use of virtual reality to treat anxiety disorders, including phobias, panic disorder, agoraphobia, OCD and PTSD. Reviews research and symptomatology of each disorder, treatment protocols and ethical aspects of virtual reality treatment.