
Facing Agoraphobia Situations
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (5 ed.)
This chapter explores the value of facing agoraphobia situations. In many ways, direct experience is the most powerful way of learning. It is essential that one eventually repeatedly face ...
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Panic and Agoraphobia
Marco Del Giudice
in Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
The chapter discusses panic disorder and agoraphobia. Panic disorder is defined by recurring panic attacks, dramatic episodes in which a surge of autonomic activity is accompanied by ...
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The Nature of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
Michelle G. Craske, David H. Barlow, and Lauren S. Woodard
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings (2 ed.)
This chapter provides an overview of the nature of panic disorder and agoraphobia. The key features of panic disorder are (1) one or more episodes of abrupt, intense fear or discomfort ...
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The Nature of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (5 ed.)
This chapter provides an overview of the nature of panic disorder and agoraphobia. The key features of panic disorder are (1) one or more episodes of abrupt, intense fear or discomfort ...
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Negative Cycles of Panic and Agoraphobia
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (5 ed.)
This chapter focuses on the importance of understanding the negative cycles that contribute to panic attacks and agoraphobia. There are three major parts to the emotions of anxiety and ...
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Involving Others
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (5 ed.)
This chapter presents ways for incorporating significant others to help one confront one’s fears of agoraphobia situations. Research suggests that involving spouses, life partners, family, ...
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Establishing a Hierarchy of Agoraphobia Situations
Michelle G. Craske and David H. Barlow
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Therapist Guide (4 ed.)
Chapter 8 discusses how to establish a hierarchy of agoraphobic situations, and corresponds to chapter 5 of the patient workbook. It covers the materials needed, the outline of the session, ...
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Establishing Your Hierarchy of Agoraphobia Situations
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (4 ed.)
Chapter 5 discusses establishing a hierarchy of agoraphobia situations, and covers the goals of the session, a review of panic and mood records, a reminder of the role of avoidance, how to ...
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Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (5 ed.)
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
This edition of the Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic Workbook has been updated to include strategies and techniques for dealing with both panic disorder and agoraphobia. The program ...
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Delivering Treatment for Adolescent Panic Disorder with Flexibility and Fidelity
Donna B. Pincus, Laura Nelson Darling, and Ovsanna Leyfer
in Flexibility within Fidelity: Breathing Life into a Psychological Treatment Manual
Panic disorder often is referred to as one of the most impairing psychological disorders to affect adolescents, and if left untreated, it can detrimentally impact an adolescent’s ...
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Getting Started
Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and David A. Spiegel
in Riding the Wave: Workbook
Chapter 1 introduces panic disorder (PD), and this treatment program. PD is defined and explored, along with scales to determine the severity of the client's PD, the general structure of ...
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Sessions 6–10 Facing Feared Situations
Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and David A. Spiegel
in Riding the Wave: Workbook
Chapter 7 details the format for the sixth to tenth sessions of treatment. These sessions explore avoidance, safety behaviors, exposing yourself to feared situations, your fear and ...
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Facing Fear Out There
Michelle G. Craske, David H. Barlow, and Lauren S. Woodard
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings (2 ed.)
This chapter focuses on the process of continuing to face one’s fear of physical symptoms, and learning to face fear of activities that produce physical symptoms as well as feared ...
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Facing Agoraphobia Situations
David H. Barlow and Michelle G. Craske
in Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Workbook (4 ed.)
Chapter 8 covers dealing with agoraphobia situations, and includes planning for and practicing facing these situations, attempts that have failed, use of medication, design of the practice ...
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Session 8
Michael W. Otto and Mark H. Pollack
in Stopping Anxiety Medication: Workbook (2 ed.)
Chapter 13 discusses the eighth session of treatment, which is the last weekly session of the program. It includes techniques for treating agoraphobia avoidance and, generalization ...
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Anxiety Symptoms
David Watson and Michael W. O’Hara
in Understanding the Emotional Disorders: A Symptom-Level Approach Based on the IDAS-II
This chapter reviews the convergent, discriminant, criterion, and incremental validity of symptoms of the DSM-5 anxiety disorders; these include panic disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety ...
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Riding the Wave: Workbook
Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and David A. Spiegel
This online resource is designed to be used by adolescents in conjunction with treatment for panic disorder and agoraphobia. It contains easy-to-understand explanations and downloadable ...
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Session 3 Anxious Thoughts
Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and David A. Spiegel
in Riding the Wave: Workbook
Chapter 4 outlines the third session of treatment, which explores the cognitive component of anxiety, common anxious thoughts (overestimating, catastrophic thinking) and how to identify ...
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Session 11 The End of Treatment
Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and David A. Spiegel
in Riding the Wave: Workbook
Chapter 8 outlines the eleventh and final session of the treatment program. Progress that has been made is evaluated, and a plan for continuing to practice skills after the conclusion of ...
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Mastery of Anxiety and Panic for Adolescents: Therapist Guide: Riding the Wave
Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich, and Sara G. Mattis
This online therapist guide is specifically designed for working with adolescents with panic disorder and agoraphobia. It features the program developed at the Center for Anxiety and ...
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