Understanding and Treating Panic Disorder Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches [Paperback]

A comprehensive guide that integrates theory, research, and treatment guidelines for using state-of-the-art methods for treating both routine and challenging cases of panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia).THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND EMPIRICAL FINDINGS.

Panic Attacks, Panic Disorders, and Agoraphobia.

Comorbidity: Panic Disorder in Context.

Cognitive Models.

Feared Sensations: What are Their Causes?

Meta-Analyses of Treatment Outcome.

Treatment Outcome: A Closer Look.

Combining Psychological Treatments with Drug Therapies.

Predicting Treatment Outcome.

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES.

Assessment.

Developing a Case Formulation.

Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy: An Overview.

Cognitive Interventions.

Interoceptive and Situational Exposure.

Adjunctive Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions.

Strategies for Improving Treatment Adherence and PreventingRelapse.

Cognitive-behavioural Protocols for Special Populations.

Other Psychological Treatments.

References.

Indexes.

Steven Taylor is the author of Understanding and Treating Panic Disorder: Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches, published by Wiley.

This book is a comprehensive text and clinician?s guide which integrates theory, empirical findings, and treatment guidelines, to provide a framework for understanding and treating both routine and complex cases of panic disorder.

The first Part of the book covers the theoretical foundations of cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) for panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia), and the relevant empirical lÓQ