Mastery of Your Specific Phobia, Therapist Guide (Therapyworks) [Paperback]

Michelle G. Craske (Author), Martin M. Antony (Author), David H. Barlow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1997 | ISBN-10: 0127850333 | ISBN-13: 978-0127850337 | Edition: 1

Specific phobias are some of the most prevalent of anxiety disorders. Mastery of Your Specific Phobia<$> helps clients become active participants as they explore the nature of specific phobias including definitions, prevalence, and causes of phobias, and learn proven strategies for overcoming phobias, including exposure-based and cognitive techniques for reducing fear.
Mastery of Your Specific Phobia<$> is an empirically-supported, cognitive-behavioral treatment program designed for patients diagnosed with a specific phobia, according to DSM-IV criteria. The program describes treatment strategies for a variety of specific phobias, including: animal phobias, natural environment phobias, situational phobias, blood, injection, or injury phobias and other phobias.
The Therapist Guide<$> presents information on the development and efficacy of cognitive-behavioral treatment for specific phobias and guides the clinician through a session-by-session treatment program. Detailed therapeutic interventions are described to help clients manage fear and anxiety, including objective self-monitoring techniques, systematic desensitization, and cognitive restructuring. Interoceptive and in-vivo exposure exercises are presented to help clients overcome phobic avoidance.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is an excellent pair of books in what I imagine, given Barlow's expertise, experience, and track record, will be a very good series. The pairing of a therapist guide and companion workbook sets the series apart from previous texts that have provided either practitioner guidebooks or self-help manuals."--PsycCRITIQUES

"The Therapist Guide is a good, well-written accompaniment to the wrokbook, providing the therapist with the latest research and treatment rationale to help develop effective treatment plans for individuals wishing to overcome their specific phobias."--CBT Today

"The book covers a wide spectrum of fears and phobias, and are grouped in a way that reflects the heterogeneity among specific phobias... Both the Therapist Guide and the accompanying Client Workbook are user-friendly in terms of layout and comprehensibility of content. Time is taken to introduce the evidence-base for the efficacy of cognitive behaviour techniques in the treatment of fears and phobias; this supplies the therapist with knowledge and confidence in this form of treatment."--Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California-Los Angeles and director of the Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Program within the UCLA Psychology Clinic. She received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.

David H. Barlow, Ph.D., is professor of psychology and psychiatry, director of the clinical training program and director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 134 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0127850333
• ISBN-13: 978-0127850337
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,658,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)