Main description:

The fifth edition of Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic, Workbook, has been fully revised and updated to offer helpful, scientifically proven strategies and techniques for dealing with both panic disorder and agoraphobia. The program outlined is based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and is organized by skill, with each chapter building on the one before it. The Workbook covers the importance of record-keeping and monitoring
progress, as well as breathing techniques and thinking skills, with the main focus of the treatment involving the importance of learning how to face agoraphobic situations, and the often-frightening physical symptoms of panic, from an entirely new perspective. Self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and interactive
forms allow clients to become active participants in their own treatment, and to learn to manage panic attacks, anxiety about panic, and avoidance of panic and agoraphobic situations.

Contents:

Chapter 1: The Nature of Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia

PART I: BASICS

Chapter 2: Learning to Record Panic and Anxiety

Chapter 3: Negative Cycles of Panic and Agoraphobia

Chapter 4: Panic Attacks Are Not Harmful

PART II: COPING SKILLS

Chapter 5: Establishing Your Hierarchy of Agoraphobia Situations

Chapter 6: Breathing Skills

Chapter 7: Thinking Skills

PART III: EXPOSURE TO FEARED SYMPTOMS AND SITUATIONS

Chapter 8: Facing Physical Symptoms

Chapter 9: Facing Agoraphobia Situations

Chapter 10: Involving Others

PART IV: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE

Chapter 11: Medications

Chapter 12: Accomplishments, Maintenance, and Relapse Prevention

Appendix: Answers to Self-Assessment Quizzes