What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions by Martin N. Seif

by Martin N. Seif

What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on changing a patient s relationship to anxiety in order to enable enduring recovery rather than merely offering a menu of techniques for controlling symptoms. Neither a CBT manual nor an academic text nor a self-help book, "What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders" offers page after page of key insights into ways to help patients suffering from phobias, panic attacks, unwanted intrusive thoughts, compulsions and worries. The authors offer a rich array of therapist-patient vignettes, case examples, stories, and metaphors that will complement the work of trainees and experienced clinicians of every orientation. Readers will come away from the book with a new framework for understanding some of the most frustrating clinical challenges in anxiety disorders, including "reassurance junkies," endless obsessional loops, and the paradoxical effects of effort."

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Nonfiction, Social Work

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Aidan Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

So, so useful and very readable. Why this isn’t required reading in grad programs is beyond me.

[Memorix101 · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's the anxiety disorder bible in my opinion

[Joelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

As the title implies, this book should be required reading for all therapists. It contains very specific guidelines for practice, discusses many different forms of anxiety disorders, and presents real-life case examples from the authors' experiences. I plan to recommend this book to every new therapist and/or supervisee that I train or work with in the future.

[Eva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating.