Anxiety Disorders: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments / Edition 1

by Robert A. DiTomasso PhD, ABPP, Elizabeth A. Gosch PhD

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826120915
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/29/2007
Series:	Springer Series on Comparative Treatments for Psychological Disorders
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Robert A. DiTomasso, PhD, ABPP, is Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Elizabeth A. Gosch, PhD, serves dual roles in the Psychology Department of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as Director of the MS Program in Counseling and Clinical Health Psychology and as a core faculty member of the PsyD program in Clinical Psychology.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Series Editor's Note

• Anxiety Disorders: An Overview, Robert A. DiTomasso and Elizabeth A. Gosch
• Clinical Case Presentation: The Case of Sandra, Elizabeth A. Gosch and Robert A. DiTomasso
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment, Elizabeth A. Meadows and Kelly A. Phipps
• Problem-Solving Therapy, Stephanie H. Felgoise, Christine Mmaguth Nezu, and Arthur M. Nezu
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Steven C. Hayes, Julieann Pankey, and Jennifer Gregg
• Context-Centered Therapy, Jay S. Efran and Leonard C. Sitrin
• Contextual Family Therapy, Morrie Olson and Bruce Lackie
• Adlerian Therapy, Richard R. Kopp
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Reed D. Goldstein and Alan M. Gruenberg
• Person-Centered Therapy, Stacey A. Williams
• Supportive-Expressive Psychotherapy, Alan L. Schwartz and Katherine Crits-Cristoph
• Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Paul M. Lerner
• Psychopharmacological Treatment, Agnieszka Popiel, Lynn Montgomery, and Robert A. DiTomasso
• Comparison of Treatment Approaches, Robert A. DiTomasso and Elizabeth A. Gosch
Appendix
Index