Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Approaches to Anxiety: Conceptualization and Treatment (Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders)

✍ Scribed by Susan M. Orsillo, Lizabeth Roemer (Editors)

• Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 395
• Series: Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For many years, cognitive-behavioral techniques have been at the forefront of treatment for anxiety disorders. More recently, strategies rooted in Eastern concepts of acceptance and mindfulness have have demonstrated some promise in treating anxiety, especially in tandem with CBT. Now, with Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies for Anxiety, thirty expert clinicians and researchers present a comprehensive guide to integrating these powerful complementary approaches—where they match, when they differ, and why they work so well together. Chapter authors clearly place mindfulness and acceptance into the clinical lexicon, establishing links with established traditions, including emotion theory and experiential therapy. In addition, separate chapters discuss specific anxiety disorders, the current state of treatment for each, and practical ways of integrating acceptance and mindfulness approaches into therapy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Contents......Page 17
I. Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness and Existing Psychological Traditions......Page 21
1. Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies for Anxiety: Using Acceptance and Mindfulness to Enhance Traditional Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches......Page 23
2. Emotion and the Acceptance-Based Approaches to the Anxiety Disorders......Page 57
II. General Approaches to Assessment and Treatment......Page 89
3. Assessing Mindfulness and Experiential Acceptance: Attempts to Capture Inherently Elusive Phenomena......Page 91
4. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Anxiety Disorders......Page 121
5. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction......Page 151
6. Applying DBT Mindfulness Skills to the Treatment of Clients with Anxiety Disorders......Page 167
III. Specific Populations......Page 183
7. Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness with Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Panic Disorder......Page 185
8. An Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Perspective on Social Anxiety Disorder......Page 209
9. An Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder......Page 233
10. Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder......Page 261
11. Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder......Page 291
12. Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness into Treatments for Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as an Example......Page 321
IV. Future Directions......Page 343
13. Exploring Basic Processes Underlying Acceptance and Mindfulness......Page 345
Index......Page 379