The Clinician's Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders: Integrating Techniques and Applications from CBT, DBT, and ACT

by Timothy A. Sisemore PhD

Overview

As a mental health professional, it can be difficult to help anxious clients face their fears and anxieties. Exposure therapy is widely appreciated as one of the most effective therapeutic treatments for anxiety spectrum disorders; however, it is often underutilized due to problems that present themselves during treatment, such as client unwillingness or hesitancy, or a lack of understanding on the professional’s part regarding targeted applications. The Clinician's Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders offers guidance in creating specific exposure exercises for clients’ individual fears and phobias, as well as tools to help you and your clients overcome common roadblocks that arise during exposure therapy.

In addition, this clinician’s guide presents detailed solutions and specific exposure strategies for the most common fears and phobias clients experience. You will learn to implement exposure therapy and integrate it with other evidence-based practices, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The book also includes reproducible worksheets you can use to help clients develop hierarchies of exposure and information about using prolonged exposure therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. If you are looking for a powerful resource for treating anxiety disorders, this is it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608821549
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	12/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Timothy A. Sisemore, PhD, is professor of psychology and counseling and director of research at Richmont Graduate University in Chattanooga, TN. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as a clinical psychologist and specializes in anxiety disorders. He has written three previous books on anxiety treatment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Exposure Therapy: A Tool for the Times 1

Part I The Many Facets of Exposure and Response Prevention

1 Exposure Therapy: The Overlooked Treasure 5

2 Exposure and Response Prevention: The What, How, and Why 15

3 Exposure Therapy's Partner: Response Prevention 29

4 Implementing Basic Exposure Therapy 47

5 Exposure Therapy and Response Prevention in the Context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 65

6 Exposure in the Context of Dialectical Behavior Therapy 79

7 Exposure in the Context of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 93

8 Three Other Adaptations of Exposure Therapy 107

Part II A Menu of Specific Suggestions for Exposure and Response Prevention

9 Using the Exposure Menu in Context 121

10 Exposure Therapy for Simple Phobias 131

11 Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder 155

12 Exposure Therapy for Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia, with a Focus on Interoceptive Exposure 167

13 Exposure Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Hypochondriasis 175

14 Suggestions for Emotion Exposure 189

References 193

Index 205

Interviews

Timothy Sisemore lives in Chattanooga, TN.