Table of Contents

I. The Fundamentals of Exposure Therapy 1. Overview and History of Exposure Therapy for Anxiety 2. How Well Does Exposure Therapy Work? 3. The Nature and Treatment of Clinical Anxiety 4. Treatment Planning I: Functional Assessment 5. Treatment Planning II: Hierarchy Development and Treatment Engagement 6. Implementing Exposure Therapy: An Overview II. Implementing Exposure Therapy for Specific Types of Fears 7. Animal-Related Fears 8. Natural Environments 9. Social Concerns 10. Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts 11. Bodily Cues and Health Concerns 12. Contamination 13. The Aftermath of Trauma 14. Blood-, Injection-, and Injury-Related Stimuli 15. Incompleteness, Asymmetry, and ""Not-Just-Right"" Feelings III. Special Considerations in the Use of Exposure Techniques 16. Exposure Therapy with Complex Cases 17. Exposure Therapy with Children 18. Involving Significant Others in Treatment 19. Combining Exposure Therapy with Medication 20. Maintaining Improvement after Treatment 21. A Risk–Benefit Analysis of Exposure Therapy

About the Author

Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Brett J. Deacon, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Wyoming, USA, and Stephen P. H. Whiteside, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychology and Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Reviews

"Just another clinical guide to anxiety disorders? Not at all. This broad and clinically nuanced guide is designed for clinicians who want to understand and treat anxiety and fear in all its forms. Rather than approaching the problem from diagnostic categories, this excellent book provides basic guidelines for planning treatment and then helps the clinician design exposures that match the client's specific fear triggers. It explores the challenges and complexities of anxiety treatment and offers clear guidelines and clinical language, to boot. An excellent volume for training students and clinicians at all levels." - Gail Steketee, Boston University School of Social Work, Massachusetts, USA "For the novice or student, the book provides the theoretical and practical building blocks of anxiety treatment. For the more experienced practitioner, each and every chapter sheds new light on the familiar and points to new ideas and novel discoveries. The authors speak with the clarity of their collective decades of clinical and research experience." - Murray B. Stein, University of California, San Diego, USA