ANXIETY AND ITS DISORDERS
The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic, 2nd Edition
David H. Barlow
Guilford Publications, 2004
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
•Understand emotion theory
•Learn recent advances in cognitive science and neuroscience
•Learn the latest developments in classification
Chapters 1-7
•Learn why anxiety may be culturally determined, even if the occurrence of basic negative affect and most anxiety disorders is universal
•Learn the cardiovascular consequences of anxiety disorders
•Understand Bioinformational Theory of Emotion
•Describe components of anxiety
•Understand the nature and process of anxious apprehension
•Recognize the distinctiveness of anxiety and panic, their origins, and links to related emotional disorders
•Understand the mechanism of "toughening up
•Learn what moderates the activation of the Behavioral Inhibition System
•Learn why humans learn fears and phobias
Chapters 8-15
•Learn how "normal" individuals manifest an illusion of control
•Learn about parenting styles and the development of a sense of control and anxiety
• Learn how psychosocial treatment of a given anxiety and mood disorders
•Learn about the connection between panic attacks and agoraphobia
•Learn about several questionnaires used to measure avoidance
•Understand why people with specific phobias rarely seek treatment
•Learn the single event that yields the most cases of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
•Learn the most effective treatments for treating social phobia
•Learn why General Anxiety Disorder is the most difficult anxiety disorder to treat
•understand the relationship between Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder and depression
David H. Barlow, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Research Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Training Programs, and Director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. Dr. Barlow is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology and maintains a private clinical psychology practice. He is the author of many books on anxiety and panic.
23 CE credits; 700 pages
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