Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry (Second Edition): Therapist Guide
Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry comes in two volumes. This page is for the Therapist Guide. Click on the following link to access the accompanying Workbook.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a first-line treatment for generalized anxiety disorder, recommended by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry: Therapist Guide (Second Edition) is written by Richard Zinbarg, Michelle Craske, and David Barlow and provides therapists with all the tools they need to deliver effective, evidence-based psychological treatment for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and worry. Part of the Treatments That Work™ series, it provides step-by-step instructions for teaching clients the skills they need to overcome their worry, whether or not they meet full criteria for GAD.
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Chapter 1: Introductory Information for Therapists
Chapter 2: The Nature of Anxiety and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 3: Outline of Treatment Procedures and Basic Principles Underlying Treatment
Chapter 4: The Nature of Generalized Anxiety
Chapter 5: Learning to Recognize Your Own Anxiety
Chapter 6: The Purpose and Function of Anxiety
Chapter 7: A Closer Look at Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 8: Learning to Relax
Chapter 9: Controlling Thoughts That Cause Anxiety 1 – Overestimating the Risk
Chapter 10: Controlling Thoughts That Cause Anxiety 2 – Thinking the Worst
Chapter 11: Getting to the Heart of Worrying – Facing Your Fears
Chapter 12: From Fears to Behaviors
Chapter 13: Dealing With Real Problems – Time Management, Goal Setting, and Problem Solving
Chapter 14: Drugs for Anxiety and Their Relation to This Program
Chapter 15: Your Accomplishments and Your Future
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Introduction & Theoretical Background
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is extremely common, with the lifetime prevalence measured in a recent survey ranging from 4.1% to 7.7% (Kessler et al, 2005). GAD is characterized by excessive worry, which has the quality of being uncontrollable. People with GAD tend to worry about minor everyday events, or major life circumstances (e.g. job, family, finances), and the focus of the worry may shift repeatedly. The worry is typically associated with physical symptoms of tension, such as restlessness, fatigue and sleep disturbance. Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry is a comprehensive program to assist clinicians in delivering effective CBT for GAD and worry. The program includes two books:
- Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Therapist Guide details the step-by-step cognitive behavioral treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.
- Mastery of Your Anxiety And Worry: Workbook is the companion to this therapist guide. It will help your patients to become active
Therapist Guidance
Each Treatments That Work® title is published as part of a pair:
- Clients use the Workbooks which contain elements of psychoeducation, skills development, self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and record forms.
- Therapists use the Therapist Guides which contain step-by-step instructions for teaching clients skills and overcoming common difficulties.
The authors suggest that the most effective implementation of these exercises requires an understanding of the principles underlying the different procedures, and that mental health professionals should be familiar with both the Mastery of Your Anxiety And Worry: Workbook, as well as this therapist guide.
Therapists with an active subscription to a Psychology Tools ‘Complete’ plan are licensed to use Treatments That Work® titles, and to download and share chapters with their clients.
References And Further Reading
- Kessler, R. C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., Jin, R., Merikangas, K. R., & Walters, E. E. (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of general psychiatry, 62(6), 593-602.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2020). Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder in adults: management[CG113]. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg113
- Zinbarg, R. E., Lee, J. E., & Yoon, K. L. (2007). Dyadic predictors of outcome in a cognitive-behavioral program for patients with generalized anxiety disorder in committed relationships: A “spoonful of sugar” and a dose of non-hostile criticism may help. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45(4), 699-713.