Survivors of Toxic Parents
Adult survivors of childhood abuse often have difficulties with close friendships and intimate relationships, and suffer from low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, phobias, and loneliness. This chapter provides instructions for leading a short-term focal therapy group; but this particular client population, unlike some others, will need and benefit from ongoing group therapy. Extended therapy will give …
Behavioral Interpretations
In this chapter an overview is given of behavioral theories with respect to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. After a discussion of the current status of learning theories in explaining the acquisition and maintenance of fears and phobias, separate sections are devoted to the development of panic disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, …
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(1) the functional relationship between obsessions and compulsions (2) whether neutralizing thoughts are obsessions or compulsions (3) the extent to which obsessive-compulsives recognize their obsessive fears as senseless In addition, issues of comorbidity and differential diagnoses are reviewed. Specifically, we consider the relationship of obsessive-compulsive disorder to depression, simple phobia and generalized anxiety disorder, delusional …
Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety Disorders
While there is not yet any definitive evidence in favor of a biological etiology for any anxiety disorder, it is clear these conditions are usually highly responsive to medication. This ebook summarizes current knowledge about the use an efficacy of psychotropic medications in GAD, PD, PTSD, OCD, SP, and agoraphobia. (48 pp.)
