Generalized anxiety disorder / Craig D. Marker, Alison G. Aylward.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Advances in psychotherapy--evidence-based practice ; v. 24.
Main Author: Marker, Craig D.
Other Authors: Aylward, Alison G.
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Hogrefe, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Advances in psychotherapy--evidence-based practice ; v. 24.
Subjects:
Anxiety disorders.
Anxiety Disorders > diagnosis.
Anxiety Disorders > therapy.
Physical Description:viii, 83 pages : illustrations, forms ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Description
  • Terminology
  • Definition
  • Epidemiology
  • Course and prognosis
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Depression
  • Social anxiety
  • Specific phobia
  • Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  • Comorbidities
  • Diagnostic procedures
  • Interviewer-administered measures
  • Self-report severity measures
  • Assessing suitability for treatment
  • 2. Theories and models of generalized anxiety disorder
  • Worry as cognitive avoidance
  • Positive beliefs about worry
  • Uncertainty and worry
  • Information-processing biases associated with GAD
  • Metaworry
  • Implications for treatment
  • 3. Diagnosis and treatment indications
  • Key features to be assessed
  • Situational triggers
  • Physical features
  • Information processing
  • Cognitive avoidance strategies
  • Intolerance of uncertainty
  • Function of worry
  • Interpersonal issues
  • Behavioral avoidance
  • Metaworry
  • Comorbidities
  • Functional impairment
  • Overview of effective treatment strategies
  • Factors that influence treatment decisions
  • Age, sex, and ethnicity
  • Education
  • Family and relationship factors
  • Client preference
  • Treatment history
  • Ability to articulate cognitions
  • Severity of positive beliefs about worry
  • Comorbidities
  • 4. Treatment
  • Methods of CBT
  • Psychoeducation
  • Cognitive strategies
  • Exposure-based strategies
  • Relaxation and acceptance-based strategies
  • Mechanisms of action
  • Cognitive models
  • Behavioral and emotional processing models
  • Acceptance-based models
  • Efficacy and prognosis
  • Efficacy of CBT
  • Combination treatments
  • Medication treatments
  • Comparing and combining medications and CBT
  • Overcoming barriers to treatment
  • Treatment ambivalence
  • Homework noncompliance
  • Adapting treatment for comorbidities
  • Adapting treatment for different age groups
  • Children and adolescents
  • Older adults
  • Adapting treatment for different cultures
  • 5. Case vignette
  • 6. Further reading
  • 7. References
  • 8. Appendix: Tools and resources.