New Ebook Gives Up to date Steering, Insights, and Remedy for Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia
Whether or not an individual suffers from one or the opposite or each, panic dysfunction and agoraphobia may be intensely debilitating situations, particularly if left untreated. However the reality is each are extremely manageable and therapy outcomes are very efficient, notably when cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT) is utilized by expert and well-trained psychological well being suppliers.
Offering his personal experience, information, and years of scientific expertise and evidence-based observe, Simon Rego, PsyD, ABPP, A-CBT, in his latest e-book, affords sensible steerage, specialised perception, and adaptable methods to tailor therapy to particular person sufferers.
Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia (Vol 55) – Advances in Psychotherapy Proof-Primarily based Follow, a brand new quantity within the Advances in Psychotherapy sequence, is a concise and present overview of each issues that addresses diagnosing, assessing, and treating these situations with the newest interventions in CBT. Described as “an excellent useful resource for scientific psychologists, different psychological well being professionals, and college students,” Dr. Rego’s e-book contains useful descriptions of the issues, evaluations scientific theories and fashions, and guides readers by means of the diagnostic and therapy decision-making course of.
In line with Dr. Rego, this e-book is a “fusion of basic CBT interventions primarily based on the emotional processing mannequin, corresponding to in vivo and interoceptive publicity, with newer interventions taken from the inhibitory studying mannequin of extinction, together with actively studying new associations by creating violations of expectations individuals have concerning the penalties of panic signs and panic assaults.”
Whereas there are lots of books on evidence-based observe on the market, Dr. Rego feels this explicit sequence of books has a “nice consistency throughout all volumes” and the publications are structured in a method that anybody studying considered one of them could have a way of how the opposite books will unfold.
“These books are extremely readable, aligned with present theories, and provide sensible methods, in addition to case examples,” he stated, “they’re nice for busy clinicians who have to digest data effectively.”
With a step-by-step method, detailed case vignettes, a top level view of a 12-session therapy, and downloadable worksheets, Dr. Rego’s information will help practitioners really feel extra assured and certified when working with their sufferers to overcome debilitating fears and anxieties, and reside extra totally.
Dr. Rego felt the time was proper for an replace which included a few of the newer advances in panic dysfunction and agoraphobia therapy.
“The literature hasn’t had an replace with a practitioner-based e-book for panic in fairly a while,” stated Dr. Rego informed ADAA, “I hope practitioners can use this e-book as a ‘catch up’ or refresher and hopefully it affords just a few new concepts.”
Pre-order Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia (55) – Advances in Psychotherapy Proof-Primarily based Follow right here. Launch date March 30, 2025.
New Anxiousness Workbook for Children Doesn’t Really feel Like Work – Have Enjoyable Squashing Fears and Worries!
Simply because a workbook is kid-friendly doesn’t make it enjoyable. However a brand new workbook by ADAA member Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA, and co-authors Meena Dugatkin, PsyD, and Grace Cusack, LPC (with a foreword by ADAA member Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD), is simply that.
Grounded in evidence-based psychology (however we gained’t inform your children for those who don’t), The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Children: Enjoyable CBT Actions to Squash Your Fears and Worries helps youngsters flip anxious ideas into curiosity, dedication, and bravado.
Dr. Kissen says the workbook, which makes use of abilities primarily based on cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT), is “playful and interactive and helps make the subject of hysteria really feel much less heavy and overwhelming.”
“My co-authors and I wished to jot down a e-book that provides youngsters and their mother and father a set of instruments to face fears in an approachable, enjoyable, and empowering method,” Dr. Kissen informed ADAA. “One thing that helps take the thriller and worry out of hysteria, permitting children to grasp what’s occurring of their our bodies and minds, and giving them actionable steps to relax and really feel protected in conditions that had been as soon as scary.”
Filled with 25 participating video games and actions, every chapter of the e-book features a kid-friendly introduction, then jumps into kid-approved silliness (occurring a Worry-Busting Scavenger Hunt or visiting the I-Scream Store), and concludes by rewarding youngsters for all their superb “work” with a go to to Celebration Station! And there are prizes!
With inventive workouts, relatable metaphors, and colourful illustrations that simplify complicated ideas, Dr. Kissen says that she and her co-authors wished children to “really feel enthusiastic about finishing the actions, as if they’re on a fear-busting journey.”
Anxiousness isn’t one thing to be feared or ashamed of, Dr. Kissen added, stating that even youngsters have the facility to coach their nervousness to work for them and never in opposition to them.
“Anxiousness is simply your mind’s method of attempting to maintain you protected, even when it will get a bit overprotective at instances,” Dr. Kissen stated, “however with small, courageous steps, children can train their nervousness ‘guard canine’ to bark much less.”
The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Children is for kids ages 6 to 12 and their mother and father, in addition to academics, college counselors, and anybody supporting a toddler with nervousness.
“Our hope is that the workbook helps children, with the help of their mother and father, face nervousness with a versatile and playful mindset, as a substitute of hiding from it, preventing it, or feeling caught,” Dr. Kissen stated. “With their new CBT toolbox in hand, they’ll come to see nervousness as one thing which may really feel uncomfortable however is rarely harmful or past their skill to handle and transfer previous.”
Order The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Children: Enjoyable CBT Actions to Squash Your Fears and Worries right here.
New Ebook Appears at ‘What Anxiousness Appears Like’ By means of Tales, Options, and CBT Abilities
When psychologist and nervousness skilled David A. Clark, PhD, got here throughout over 50,000 ends in an Amazon e-book seek for “nervousness”, he did at first pause to ask himself if yet one more e-book on the subject was wanted. Fortunately he determined to publish That is What Anxiousness Appears Like: Relatable Tales, Focused Options, and CBT Abilities for Lasting Aid.
The ADAA member’s new e-book, as its title suggests, takes a have a look at nervousness in methods many books on the market don’t. And it offers readers with recent, sensible, and concrete choices to have a look at their (or maybe a cherished one’s) nervousness and face it with compassion, dedication, and ability.
Whereas not a workbook, Dr. Clark’s publication is purposeful. The method to the “work” is a bit totally different however accessible and efficient.
“I considered all of the people I’ve labored with over time who simply don’t like workbooks, who discover them discouraging,” Dr. Clark informed ADAA. “So what a few e-book for individuals who don’t need a workbook? That is What Anxiousness Appears Like is just not a workbook, however every chapter does embrace some directions on how you can use sensible methods to beat particular options of hysteria.”
As an alternative of worksheets and workouts, Dr. Clark, on this temporary, non-academic e-book, incorporates participating, relatable tales. He contains “scientific composites” which aren’t actual instances he has encountered however they characterize a few of the predominant relatable struggles individuals face with nervousness. He makes use of tales to speak concepts and offers ideas, methods, and options, in addition to abilities primarily based on cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT). For every story he offers three or 4 therapy interventions.
So what does nervousness seem like?
Anxiousness can seem like catastrophic pondering, rumination, fixed reassurance in search of, worry – whether or not of uncertainty, dropping management or a way of doom – and persistent avoidance, to call just a few. Dr. Clark’s e-book outlines greater than a dozen acknowledged classes of hysteria however what he highlights is that nervousness is an emotion and also you don’t should have a prognosis to have a difficulty with nervousness. However when the problem turns into problematic, interfering with day by day life or is debilitating in a roundabout way, then his e-book may assist.
“Anxiousness is an emotion like worry or unhappiness, however a posh emotion that may have an effect on totally different elements of our lives. There’s wholesome nervousness and there’s problematic nervousness,” Dr. Clark stated. “In my e-book, I deal with nervousness as an emotion. I break it down into its core components and have a look at its varied options.”
That is What Anxiousness Appears Like will help you:
- Determine the disturbing ideas and habits that make your nervousness worse
- Use focused abilities to handle your signs
- Break the cycle of hysteria, fear, and catastrophic pondering
- Discover lasting calm and peace of thoughts
Order That is What Anxiousness Appears Like: Relatable Tales, Focused Options, and CBT Abilities for Lasting Aid right here. Dr. Clark additionally writes a weblog referred to as The Runaway Thoughts.
View ADAA’s bookstore of our members’ self-help books.
Learn the entire ADAA Member Ebook Blogs right here.