New Ebook Offers Up to date Steerage, Insights, and Therapy for Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia
Whether or not an individual suffers from one or the opposite or each, panic dysfunction and agoraphobia might be intensely debilitating circumstances, particularly if left untreated. However the reality is each are extremely manageable and remedy outcomes are very efficient, significantly when cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT) is utilized by expert and well-trained psychological well being suppliers.
Offering his personal experience, data, and years of medical expertise and evidence-based apply, Simon Rego, PsyD, ABPP, A-CBT, in his latest ebook, presents sensible steerage, specialised perception, and adaptable methods to tailor remedy to particular person sufferers.
Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia (Vol 55) – Advances in Psychotherapy Proof-Based mostly Follow, a brand new quantity within the Advances in Psychotherapy collection, is a concise and present overview of each problems that addresses diagnosing, assessing, and treating these circumstances with the most recent interventions in CBT. Described as “a really perfect useful resource for medical psychologists, different psychological well being professionals, and college students,” Dr. Rego’s ebook consists of useful descriptions of the problems, evaluations scientific theories and fashions, and guides readers by way of the diagnostic and remedy decision-making course of.
Based on Dr. Rego, this ebook is a “fusion of traditional CBT interventions based mostly on the emotional processing mannequin, akin to in vivo and interoceptive publicity, with newer interventions taken from the inhibitory studying mannequin of extinction, together with actively studying new associations by creating violations of expectations individuals have in regards to the penalties of panic signs and panic assaults.”
Whereas there are numerous books on evidence-based apply on the market, Dr. Rego feels this explicit collection of books has a “nice consistency throughout all volumes” and the publications are structured in a approach that anybody studying considered one of them may have a way of how the opposite books will unfold.
“These books are extremely readable, aligned with present theories, and provide sensible methods, in addition to case examples,” he stated, “they’re nice for busy clinicians who must digest data effectively.”
With a step-by-step method, detailed case vignettes, an overview of a 12-session remedy, and downloadable worksheets, Dr. Rego’s information can assist practitioners really feel extra assured and certified when working with their sufferers to overcome debilitating fears and anxieties, and dwell extra totally.
Dr. Rego felt the time was proper for an replace which included a number of the more moderen advances in panic dysfunction and agoraphobia remedy.
“The literature hasn’t had an replace with a practitioner-based ebook for panic in fairly a while,” stated Dr. Rego advised ADAA, “I hope practitioners can use this ebook as a ‘catch up’ or refresher and hopefully it presents a couple of new concepts.”
Pre-order Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia (55) – Advances in Psychotherapy Proof-Based mostly Follow right here. Launch date March 30, 2025.
New Anxiousness Workbook for Youngsters Doesn’t Really feel Like Work – Have Enjoyable Squashing Fears and Worries!
Simply because a workbook is kid-friendly doesn’t make it enjoyable. However a brand new workbook by ADAA member Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA, and co-authors Meena Dugatkin, PsyD, and Grace Cusack, LPC (with a foreword by ADAA member Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD), is simply that.
Grounded in evidence-based psychology (however we received’t inform your youngsters when you don’t), The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Youngsters: Enjoyable CBT Actions to Squash Your Fears and Worries helps youngsters flip anxious ideas into curiosity, dedication, and bravado.
Dr. Kissen says the workbook, which makes use of expertise based mostly on cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT), is “playful and interactive and helps make the subject of tension really feel much less heavy and overwhelming.”
“My co-authors and I needed to write down a ebook that provides youngsters and their dad and mom a set of instruments to face fears in an approachable, enjoyable, and empowering approach,” Dr. Kissen advised ADAA. “One thing that helps take the thriller and concern out of tension, permitting youngsters to grasp what’s taking place of their our bodies and minds, and giving them actionable steps to relax and really feel secure in conditions that had been as soon as scary.”
Full of 25 partaking video games and actions, every chapter of the ebook features a kid-friendly introduction, then jumps into kid-approved silliness (happening a Worry-Busting Scavenger Hunt or visiting the I-Scream Store), and concludes by rewarding youngsters for all their superb “work” with a go to to Celebration Station! And there are prizes!
With artistic workouts, relatable metaphors, and colourful illustrations that simplify advanced ideas, Dr. Kissen says that she and her co-authors needed youngsters to “really feel enthusiastic about finishing the actions, as if they’re on a fear-busting journey.”
Anxiousness isn’t one thing to be feared or ashamed of, Dr. Kissen added, stating that even youngsters have the ability to coach their anxiousness to work for them and never towards them.
“Anxiousness is simply your mind’s approach of attempting to maintain you secure, even when it will get a bit overprotective at instances,” Dr. Kissen stated, “however with small, courageous steps, youngsters can educate their anxiousness ‘guard canine’ to bark much less.”
The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Youngsters is for kids ages 6 to 12 and their dad and mom, in addition to lecturers, college counselors, and anybody supporting a baby with anxiousness.
“Our hope is that the workbook helps youngsters, with the help of their dad and mom, face anxiousness with a versatile and playful mindset, as an alternative of hiding from it, preventing it, or feeling caught,” Dr. Kissen stated. “With their new CBT toolbox in hand, they’ll come to see anxiousness as one thing which may really feel uncomfortable however isn’t harmful or past their potential to handle and transfer previous.”
Order The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Youngsters: Enjoyable CBT Actions to Squash Your Fears and Worries right here.
New Ebook Appears to be like at ‘What Anxiousness Appears to be like Like’ By Tales, Options, and CBT Abilities
When psychologist and anxiousness professional David A. Clark, PhD, got here throughout over 50,000 ends in an Amazon ebook seek for “anxiousness”, he did at first pause to ask himself if yet one more ebook on the subject was wanted. Fortunately he determined to publish That is What Anxiousness Appears to be like Like: Relatable Tales, Focused Options, and CBT Abilities for Lasting Aid.
The ADAA member’s new ebook, as its title suggests, takes a have a look at anxiousness in methods many books on the market don’t. And it gives readers with contemporary, sensible, and concrete choices to have a look at their (or maybe a cherished one’s) anxiousness and face it with compassion, dedication, and talent.
Whereas not a workbook, Dr. Clark’s publication is purposeful. The method to the “work” is a bit totally different however accessible and efficient.
“I thought of all of the people I’ve labored with through the years who simply don’t like workbooks, who discover them discouraging,” Dr. Clark advised ADAA. “So what a few ebook for individuals who don’t need a workbook? That is What Anxiousness Appears to be like Like isn’t a workbook, however every chapter does embody some directions on the way to use sensible methods to beat particular options of tension.”
As an alternative of worksheets and workouts, Dr. Clark, on this temporary, non-academic ebook, incorporates partaking, relatable tales. He consists of “medical composites” which aren’t precise circumstances he has encountered however they characterize a number of the principal relatable struggles individuals face with anxiousness. He makes use of tales to speak concepts and gives suggestions, methods, and options, in addition to expertise based mostly on cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT). For every story he gives three or 4 remedy interventions.
So what does anxiousness appear to be?
Anxiousness can appear to be catastrophic pondering, rumination, fixed reassurance looking for, concern – whether or not of uncertainty, dropping management or a way of doom – and persistent avoidance, to call a couple of. Dr. Clark’s ebook outlines greater than a dozen acknowledged classes of tension however what he highlights is that anxiousness is an emotion and also you don’t must have a prognosis to have a difficulty with anxiousness. However when the problem turns into problematic, interfering with day by day life or is debilitating in a roundabout way, then his ebook might assist.
“Anxiousness is an emotion like concern or unhappiness, however a fancy emotion that may have an effect on totally different facets of our lives. There’s wholesome anxiousness and there’s problematic anxiousness,” Dr. Clark stated. “In my ebook, I deal with anxiousness as an emotion. I break it down into its core parts and have a look at its numerous options.”
That is What Anxiousness Appears to be like Like can assist you:
Determine the disturbing ideas and habits that make your anxiousness worseUse focused expertise to handle your symptomsBreak the cycle of tension, fear, and catastrophic thinkingFind lasting calm and peace of thoughts
Order That is What Anxiousness Appears to be like Like: Relatable Tales, Focused Options, and CBT Abilities for Lasting Aid right here. Dr. Clark additionally writes a weblog known as The Runaway Thoughts.
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