Many anxieties and fears begin in a part of the brain called the amygdala. Learn how to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the "language of the amygdala" to actually change the way the brain responds to anxiety. Understand how fear is learned and how to overcome it through a process called extinction. Discover how to design effective approaches to bypass the brain's fight or flight circuitry. Modify anxiety responses through exposure therapy and cognitive interventions. Also includes information on various medications used to treat anxiety, their strengths and limitations, and how they affect treatment approaches.--Publisher

As a mental health professional, it can be difficult to help anxious clients face their fears and anxieties. Exposure therapy is widely appreciated as one of the most effective therapeutic treatments for anxiety spectrum disorders; however, it is often underutilized due to problems that present themselves during treatment, such as client unwillingness or hesitancy, or a lack of understanding on the professional’s part regarding targeted applications. The Clinician's Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders offers guidance in creating specific exposure exercises for clients’ individual fears and phobias, as well as tools to help you and your clients overcome common roadblocks that arise during exposure therapy. In addition, this clinician’s guide presents detailed solutions and specific exposure strategies for the most common fears and phobias clients experience. You will learn to implement exposure therapy and integrate it with other evidence-based practices, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The book also includes reproducible worksheets you can use to help clients develop hierarchies of exposure and information about using prolonged exposure therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. If you are looking for a powerful resource for treating anxiety disorders, this is it.

Want quick, effective and easy-to-learn solutions to problem anxiety? Coping with Anxiety offers the most effective strategies for overcoming the physical, mental, and emotional symptoms of anxiety, distilled into ten clear and simple solutions. Each of the ten solutions includes step-by-step exercises for combating a particular feature of anxiety, written in a concise, reader-friendly style. Each of the strategies provides something you can do in the moment, without having to work through the finer points of the most often used therapies for treating anxiety: cognitive therapy and desensitization.Theoretical text is limited to that information necessary for understanding the goal of the solutions, which include body relaxation, mental relaxation, facing fears, changing diet, turning off worry, and much more.

"The field of psychotherapy has been fragmented and staggered by over-choice. We have witnessed the hyperinflation of brand-name therapies. In 1959, Harper identified 36 distinct systems of psychotherapy; by 1976, Parloff discovered more than 130 therapies in the therapeutic marketplace or, perhaps more appropriately, the "jungle place." Recent estimates put the number at over 500 and growing (Pearsall, 2011)"--

McLean and Woody review recent literature in the psychosocial treatment of six of the most common anxiety disorders and provide detailed treatment guidelines based on treatment outcome studies.

If fear and anxiety are things you struggle with, let's walk this path together and find help. We fear what is awaiting us with every new day. We're anxious to find a place where we feel we belong, like we're accepted. We stay awake at night thinking of all the work we've yet to finish, and we turn on the news only to find more reasons to lose sleep. Another shooting. Another contentious election. Another untimely death. Another reason to fear and let anxiety blow the sails of our souls. What are we to do? A brief Google search offers an abundance of cures. Our problem is we're unhealthy, so here's a 6-week exercise program with guaranteed results. The problem is you're using the wrong productivity system so you're behind and anxious. Buy this book and its corresponding 3-month planner. Actually, what you need are more Instagram followers. Once you hit 2,000 everyone will love you and you'll never be stressed again! Here's the truth. The problem is they don't go deep enough. They don't bring us to the root of our anxiety. It's like slapping a band aid on a flesh wound; they bring only marginal healing. What's needed is to go deeper because when you get down to the root, when you dig through the fog of anxious despair, you find there's another reality, another dimension hardly spoken of. This is the dimension of the soul. We are not only flesh and bones but also souls. Souls who are crafted by divine fingers for something more than what this world has to offer. In this kingdom we find promises which are kept, words which will never perish, and a God who has a personal history with anxiety and fear. A God who took on human flesh to free us from our anxious plight. If you keep looking, you'll find an endless supply of reasons for your heart to be troubled. If you look to the Man Christians call Messiah, you'll find an endless supply of reasons for your heart to have peace. In the process, you'll find peace isn't a thing to be had but a God to hold onto. What you'll find in these pages isn't a quick fix or a one size fits all solution. No. You might not find anything, in fact. Or you may just find your whole being re-oriented at your deepest level. You may find that peace you've always been looking for. You may find yourself with Jesus of Nazareth.

Listen up! It’s time to change the way you manage your anxiety—by working with it rather than against it. This revolutionary guide provides the key to understanding the root cause of your anxiety, so you can break free from its grip. Let’s face it: anxiety can interfere with every single aspect of your life, from work and family to relationships and finances. Left unchecked, the cycle of anxiety reinforces and perpetuates itself over time, and can leave you feeling paralyzed with fear. You’ve probably attempted to “get rid of” or “outrun” your anxiety, only to find your symptoms growing even stronger. What you need is a new way to deal with anxiety: one that emphasizes listening to what your anxiety is trying to tell you. In What Happened to Make You Anxious?, anxiety expert Jaime Castillo offers a whole new approach; one that focuses less on avoiding or extinguishing anxiety, and more toward understanding and working with it to create a fulfilling, meaningful life. You’ll learn how your anxiety is connected to what Castillo refers to as “little ‘t’ traumas”—seemingly small, unhealed traumas from your past that drive your fear and worry, so you can get to the root of your anxiety and start healing. Your anxiety works overtime communicating perceived threats; this book will show you how to listen to anxiety, discern which threats are real, which don’t fit the actual facts of the situation, and which are triggered by past events. Once you and your anxiety are on the same page, anxiety will loosen its grip—freeing you up to live with clarity, confidence, and serenity. You’ve tried managing it on your own. You may have even received treatment. If you’re at your wit’s end when it comes to your anxiety, this book will show you a new path toward lasting relief.