Main description:

Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving Impasses to Symptom Remission brings together leading cognitive behavioral therapists from major theoretical orientations to provide clinicians with a greatly needed source of information, skills, and strategies from a wide range of CBT approaches.

It describes how to combine empirically-based findings, broad based and disorder specific theoretical models, and individualized case conceptualization to formulate and apply specific strategies for varied aspects of resistance during treatment of anxiety disorders.

Contents:

Sookman, Introduction. Wells, Metacognitive Therapy: Application to Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Sookman, Steketee, Specialized Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Treatment Resistant Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Jackson, Nissenson, Cloitre, Treatment for Complex PTSD. Bruce, Sanderson, Understanding and Managing Treatment-resistant Panic Disorder: Perspectives from the Clinical Experience of Several Expert Therapists. Leahy, Emotional Schemas in Treatment-resistant Anxiety. Welch, Osburne, Pryzgoda, Augmenting Exposure-based Treatment for Anxiety Disorders with Principles and Skills for Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Westra, Arkowitz, Combining Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Increase Treatment Efficacy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Lee, Using a Compassionate Mind to Enhance the Effectiveness of Cognitive Therapy for Individuals who Suffer from Shame and Self-criticism. Twohig, Plumb, Mukherjee, Hayes, Suggestions from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Dealing with Treatment-resistant Obsessive-compulsive Disorder. Stewart, O'Connor, Treating Anxiety Disorders in the Context of Concurrent Substance Misuse. Kolivakis, Margolese, Ducharme, The Pharmacotherapy of Treatment-resistant Anxiety Disorders in Adults in the Setting of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. Leahy, Conclusions.