The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health Anxiety Disorders ppt

[...]... treatment of anxiety disorders W x 1/2/07 10:10 PM Page 1 SECTION 05_779940 pt01.qxp ONE Conceptualization and Assessment THE WILEY CONCISE GUIDES TO MENTAL HEALTH Anxiety Disorders 05_779940 pt01.qxp 1/2/07 10:10 PM Page 2 1/2/07 10:11 PM Page 3 C HAPTER 06_779940 ch01.qxp 1 Overview of the Anxiety Disorders Description of the Anxiety Disorders The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ... of two or more disorders) among the anxiety disorders is very common It is also very common to see comorbidity between anxiety disorders and other disorders, including mood disorders, substance-use disorders, and personality disorders Prevalence of Anxiety Disorders Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent Our most useful information on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders comes from The National Comorbidity... butterfly in a net They are then taught to label the thought, assigning a name to what is “wrong” with the thought Next, they are taught to question the thought and consider whether there is a different way to view the situation that is causing the anxiety Finally, in the process of answering the questions, patients come up with a more rational and adaptive way of viewing the situation The goal with cognitive... of the anxiety disorders are shown in Table 1.10 The NCS-R also provides important data on the median age of onset of the anxiety disorders (Kessler et al., 2005) The median age of onset for all anxiety disorders is 11, much earlier than for substance use (median age 20) or mood disorders (median age 30) This suggests that anxiety disorders might be a risk factor for the later development of other disorders. .. ch02.qxp 2 CBT for the Anxiety Disorders: Description and Research Findings he major goal of this book is to help readers learn to use the core cognitivebehavioral therapy techniques to treat patients with anxiety disorders In this chapter, these core techniques will be briefly introduced While some techniques are common to all of the anxiety disorders, techniques that are unique to specific disorders will... he Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health are designed to provide mental health professionals with easily accessible overview of what is currently known about the nature and treatment of psychological disorders Each book in the series delineates the origins, manifestations, and course of a commonly occurring disorder and discusses effective procedures for its treatment The authors of the Concise Guides. .. the other activities he used to enjoy He felt that life as he knew it had ended on the night that he was shot Differential Diagnosis There is a great deal of overlap across the anxiety disorders, not only in terms of what patients fear, but also in terms of the symptoms that they experience (e.g., panic attacks can occur in all of the anxiety disorders) This makes differential diagnosis among the anxiety. .. not done so and the perpetrator had easily slipped into the restaurant John quickly told the man that all of the deposits had already been taken to the bank by another employee, and that there was no cash at all in the restaurant That was the last thing he remembered John had been shot in the neck After a difficult recovery in the hospital, John felt like a changed person He took a leave of absence from... at the CTSA to supervise many fabulous interns—we would like to extend a special thank you to Joelle McGovern who taught us more than we taught her about working with kids More recently, we have also enjoyed peer supervision with Lynn Siqueland and Tamar Chansky We appreciate our editor, David S Bernstein, at Wiley We would also like to thank the Series Editor of Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health, ... with pigeons in them Gradually, Felicia went to a science lab to see pigeons in cages and then started to go to various parts of the city where there were a lot of pigeons Over the course of treatment, Felicia did not grow to like pigeons, but did learn that 07_779940 ch02.qxp 1/2/07 10:11 PM Page 23 CBT for the Anxiety Disorders: Description and Research Findings 23 they are very unlikely to land on people’s . 2006 The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Substance Use Disorders guides you through the entire continuum of addiction care and presents the latest. appreciate our editor, David S. Bernstein, at Wiley. We would also like to thank the Series Editor of Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health, Irving B.