Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings [Paperback]

This edition ofMastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings, Workbook, outlines a time-limited treatment for those dealing with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Developed for use with patients who seek treatment from a family doctor, this guide is based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).This edition ofMastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings, Workbook,outlines a time-limited treatment for those dealing with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Developed for use with patients who seek treatment from a primary care provider, this guide is based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). The program described can be delivered by a general practitioner or other health or mental health care provider in primary care or related settings in up to six sessions. A modified version of the more intensive 12-session version of the program, this treatment represents an introduction to the skills and techniques that have been proven effective for overcoming panic disorder, and that patients can easily learn and continue on their own.Chapter 1: The Nature of Panic Disorder and AgoraphobiaChapter 2: Learning Breathing Skills and Understanding Your Negative ThinkingChapter 3: Learning More Breathing and Thinking SkillsChapter 4: Learning to Face Your FearChapter 5: Facing Fear Out ThereChapter 6: Planning for the FutureMichelle G. Craske,Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Miller Family Endowed Term Chair, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center, and Associate Director of the Staglin Family Music Center for Behavioral and Brain Health, at UCLA. She has published extensively in the area of fear, anxiety and depression and has been the recipient of extramural funding since 1993 for research pertaining to cognitive, behavioral, psychophysiological lC'