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Feel it, stay with it, share it, and let it go. Take your life back
from stress and trauma using self-help versions of proven
treatments. Up to 90% of adults in the US will experience one or
more traumatic events in their lifetimes, including interpersonal
violence, traffic collisions, and sexual assault. Traumatic events
and other difficult experiences (such as miscarriage, job loss, and
divorce) can have a long-lasting impact on mental health and
well-being. While most who suffer a trauma naturally recover over
time, for others difficulties continue, and may lead to full-blown
depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use,
anxiety disorders, and other problems that interfere with healthy
daily functioning. Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences is a
self-guided mental health resource for people who have had
potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them
independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting. Based on
psychological treatments with strong scientific support, this book
introduces readers to several useful tools that will help them to
emotionally process difficult experiences, with the goal of moving
on from the event and building future resilience. Many years of
research (much of which has been conducted by the authors of this
volume) have shown that people who try to avoid memories and
reminders of difficult experiences are more likely to develop PTSD,
depression, and other problems. Conversely, those who work to
process the memory gradually regain a general sense of wellbeing,
experiencing fewer mental health issues over time. This program is
unique in that it is intended to be wholly self-directed. Readers
can learn about and then immediately practice the strategies
described, moving through and then past difficult
experiences—whether they happened last week or years ago. The
program takes the reader step-by-step through four skill sets to
facilitate emotional processing of difficult experiences: Memory
Exposure and Processing, Behavioral Activation, Social Connection,
and Self-Care. Each set begins with a short description, followed
by a self-assessment. Readers use this self-evaluation to determine
what is working or not working for them, enabling them to focus
more on certain skills, or to complete the full program based on
their needs.
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in Intensive Outpatient Programs
(PE-IOP) presents an innovative PTSD treatment model for the use of
prolonged exposure (PE) in residential and intensive outpatient
programs, which increases access to care and retention in care
while providing transformational symptom outcomes. Drs. Rauch,
Rothbaum, Smith, and Foa present the elements of the PE protocol
along with all the logistics for how to provide PE in an intensive
outpatient program. PE is the most widely studied treatment for
PTSD, with over 100 studies showing its efficacy for PTSD and
comorbid patient populations-from single incident and multiple
incident traumas of all types (e.g., combat, sexual assault, etc.)
Variations and considerations for implementation are presented to
allow providers designing programs to consider what best fits their
patient population and setting. Patient and provider forms are
included for use. As leaders in clinical practice, training, and
research in the field of PTSD treatment, Drs. Rauch, Rothbaum,
Smith, and Foa provide concise but thorough description of the key
components of the program, how to implement them, and when and how
to consider adaptations.
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Anxiety Disorders (Paperback)
Kerry J. Ressler, Daniel S. Pine, Barbara Olasov Rothbaum
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Anxiety affects millions, manifesting as generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder,
phobias, post-traumatic-stress disorder (PTSD), and social anxiety
disorder. Not only are anxiety disorders common, but they are also
crippling, frequently co-occurring and predict high risk for
depressive disorders. Shared mechanisms may explain the overlapping
features of many anxiety disorders and account for associations
with other highly-impairing conditions, such as major depression
and substance use. Beyond risk for specific disorders, anxiety also
predicts a number of other adverse outcomes, including suicidal
behavior, medical problems, social, and economic difficulties.
Conversely, disorder-specific mechanisms may also exist and explain
the unique features of each syndrome. Thus, it is important to
understand both shared and specific aspects of anxiety. The Primer
on Anxiety Disorders provides early-stage practitioners and
trainees, as well as seasoned clinicians and researchers, with
need-to-know knowledge on diagnosis and treatment. Clinical cases
are used throughout the book to enhance understanding of and
illustrate specific disorders, comorbid conditions and clinical
issues. To facilitate an integrative approach, content allows
clinicians to understand patient characteristics and tailor
interventions. The integrated approach of each chapter includes
recent research on genetics and neuroscience to understand the
mechanisms of anxiety disorders, focusing on the forthcoming new
nosology in DSM-5. Chapters further integrate innovative advances
in clinical research providing research on a range of discoveries
regarding biomarkers of illness, biological predictors of
treatments and the effect of treatment on neurocircuitry.
This powerful client workbook is written in an encouraging and
easy-to-understand style specifically for women who have been
sexually assaulted and have developed chronic symptoms of
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Clients learn how
cognitive-behavioral therapy has helped other victims and how it
can work for them. This book explains how to distinguish PTSD
symptoms from other disorders and teaches powerful techniques for
overcoming these symptoms. In writing this book, the authors aim to
address two goals. First, they want to present information about
PTSD and related problems in language understandable to
nonprofessionals. This information will include a review of the
studies on posttrauma problems and on the effectiveness of
different treatments. They also describe why some survivors develop
PTSD and others do not. The second goal of the book is to provide a
detailed client workbook for the treatment of trauma-related
problems, especially PTSD, to assist clients working with a
therapist. The authors are aware of the fact that people have
different problems and different needs. What works for one person
may not work for another. Therefore, they describe several
different treatment techniques. The book is organized around the
different cognitive-behavioral techniques that have been studied
and proven effective with women sufferers of PTSD following an
assault. Throughout the book, the authors focus mainly on women who
have been sexually assaulted and as a result developed chronic
symptoms of PTSD, which have disturbed their daily functioning and
cause them emotional distress. Most of the examples they use to
demonstrate the cognitive-behavioral techniques are drawn from
their experience in treating rape survivors. However, the
cognitive-behavioral procedures outlined here have been as
successful in helping women who have been sexually abused in
childhood and adult female survivors of nonsexual assaults, like
aggravated assault and robbery. Other survivors of traumas such as
natural disasters and car accidents were also helped by this
cognitive-behavioral approach.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy is an effective, highly flexible, and
very well researched intervention to reduce the symptoms of PTSD
across a variety of traumatized populations. The second edition of
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of
Traumatic Experiences, Therapist Guide, along with the accompanying
Workbook, provides all of the tools necessary for trained mental
health providers to implement this first-line PTSD treatment with
their patients. This model is individualized to address the needs
of a variety of trauma survivors. Leaders in clinical practice,
training, and research in the field of PTSD treatment, the authors
have revised the Guide throughout to reflect the many advances in
PTSD research that have occurred since the release of the first
edition, including key adjustments to the underlying theory as well
as additional evidence for modifications and individualization for
more complex patient presentations and military populations. The
Guide provides a concise but thorough description of the key
components of the program, how to implement them, and when and how
to consider adaptations.
After reviewing the relevant treatment literature, the authors
detail how to assess and treat PTSD using a cognitive-behavioral
approach. Co mplete instructions are given for planning treatment,
as well as for i ntroducing the patient to the various
interventions. Nine exposure and stress management techniques are
then detailed, including imaginal ex posure (trauma reliving), in
vivo exposure, relaxation training, thoug ht-stopping, cognitive
restructuring, covert modeling, and role-playin g. Enhancing the
book's clinical utility are numerous case examples il lustrating
how to implement the techniques, as well as explanations of how to
cope with common problems and complications in treatment. The final
chapter presents detailed outlines of three suggested treatment
programs.
Those who have experienced a traumatic event and are having trouble
moving past feelings of fear, shame and guilt, or helplessness may
be diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Reclaiming
Your Life from a Traumatic Experience: A Prolonged Exposure
Treatment Program can help readers to overcome and reclaim their
lives from PTSD. Best used in combination with treatment by a
mental health professional, the second edition of this Workbook,
along with the accompanying Therapist Guide, will help readers work
through PTSD regardless of the type of trauma experienced-be it a
motor vehicle accident, physical or sexual assault, or
combat-related event. The program outlined in this book will reduce
anxiety and distress, teaching readers to face memories of trauma
while processing their emotions about the event using a
scientifically tested and proven technique called Prolonged
Exposure Therapy. Instead of avoiding or escaping situations that
provoke anxiety and other negative emotions, readers will learn how
to reevaluate feelings and beliefs to think differently about their
traumatic experiences. Complete with information on PTSD, as well
as case examples, self-assessment tools, and homework assignments,
Reclaiming Your Life from a Traumatic Experience is an invaluable
tool on the road to recovery from PTSD.
After reviewing the relevant treatment literature, the authors
detail how to assess and treat PTSD using a cognitive-behavioral
approach. Co mplete instructions are given for planning treatment,
as well as for i ntroducing the patient to the various
interventions. Nine exposure and stress management techniques are
then detailed, including imaginal ex posure (trauma reliving), in
vivo exposure, relaxation training, thoug ht-stopping, cognitive
restructuring, covert modeling, and role-playin g. Enhancing the
book's clinical utility are numerous case examples il lustrating
how to implement the techniques, as well as explanations of how to
cope with common problems and complications in treatment. The final
chapter presents detailed outlines of three suggested treatment
programs.
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