Anxiety Disorders Integrated Psychotherapy Approaches

This text provides integrated and unified treatment frameworks for anxiety disorders and examines how contemporary integrated psychotherapy treatment models from different therapeutic interventions can be used to help patients.

Dr. Koenigsberg provides a research-based overview of major themes that underlie these treatment models, then analyzes the symptoms and causes of specific anxiety disorders such as panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and phobias, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Case studies of integrated or unified treatment approaches are provided for each disorder, along with the theoretical and technical factors that are involved in applying these approaches in clinical practice. Supplementary online materials include PowerPoint slides and test questions to help readers further expand their understanding of integrated and unified approaches for the anxiety disorders and assess their newfound knowledge.

Graduate and undergraduate students, novice and seasoned therapists, and researchers will learn the rationale for and the history of past and contemporary integrated and unified models of treatment to gain better insight into anxiety disorders.

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy; 1. Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy Approaches; 2. The Need for Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy Approaches; 3. A Brief History of Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy Approaches; Part II. Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy Approaches for the Anxiety Disorders; 4. The Etiology of the Anxiety Disorders: Themes that Underlie Integrated Psychotherapy Models of the Anxiety Disorders; 5. Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD); 6. Panic Disorder (PD); 7. Phobias: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) (Social Phobia) and Specific Phobia (SP); 8. Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD) and Adult Separation Anxiety Disorder (ASAD); Part III. Integrated and Unified Psychotherapy Approaches for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD; 9. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD); 10. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD);11. Conclusion; Index

Judy Z. Koenigsberg, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, licensed in Illinois, who has practiced integrated psychology for over 25 years. After earning her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1990, Dr. Koenigsberg was employed as a clinical psychologist at the University of Chicago. She has taught research design and methodology to graduate students in the social sciences at Loyola University. Dr. Koenigsberg’s publications include articles in psychology and sociology which have been published in peer reviewed journals, chapters in an encyclopedia of mental disorders, a course in psycholinguistics designed for C.E. credit for mental health professionals, and a book. At present, she maintains an integrated psychology practice in Evanston, Illinois.