Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic

Michelle G. Craske, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Miller Family Endowed Term Chair, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center, and Associate Director of the Staglin Family Music Center for Behavioral and Brain Health, at UCLA. She has published extensively in the area of fear, anxiety and depression and has been the recipient of extramural funding since 1993 for research pertaining to cognitive, behavioral, psychophysiological and neural risk factors for anxiety and depression that have informed novel treatments; innovative approaches to optimizing therapies such as virtual reality; and implementing scalable treatment models to underserved populations. David H. Barlow is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Emeritus and the Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. He has published over 650 articles and chapters and over 90 books and clinical manuals. He is the recipient ofnumerous awards, including honorary degrees from the University of Vermont and William James College, and the two highest awards in psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association and James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science honoring individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research.

Clear, concise, and user-friendly, the 5th edition of the Therapist Guide is now infused with the recently developed inhibitory learning approaches to enable therapists to maximize effectiveness of the exposure procedures in the Workbook. I strongly urge all therapists using the Workbook to follow this new Guide.

• PART I: BASICS Chapter 1: Introductory Information for Therapists Chapter 2: The Nature of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia Chapter 3: Outline of Treatment Procedures and Basic Principles Underlying Treatment Chapter 4: Introduction to the Program Chapter 5: Learning to Record Panic and Anxiety Chapter 6: Negative Cycles of Panic and Agoraphobia Chapter 7: Panic Attacks Are Not Harmful PART II: COPING SKILLS Chapter 8: Establishing a Hierarchy of Agoraphobia Situations Chapter 9: Breathing Skills Chapter 10: Thinking Skills PART III: EXPOSURE TO FEARED SYMPTOMS AND SITUATIONS Chapter 11: Facing Physical Symptoms Chapter 12: Facing Agoraphobia Situations Chapter 13: Involving Others PART IV: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Chapter 14: Medications Chapter 15: Accomplishments, Maintenance, and Relapse Prevention Chapter 16: Therapist Guide for Brief Six-Session Version for Primary Care and Related Settings MAP Workbook Appendix: Assessments for Panic Disorder