Fall 2011/Winter 2012 Professional Catalogue ... - Raincoast Books

thE DIAlECtICAl BEhAvIOR thERAPy SKIllS
WORKBOOK FOR ANxIEty
Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD & Other Anxiety Symptoms
AlExANDER l. ChAPMAN, PhD, KIM l. gRAtz, PhD,
& MAtthEW t. tUll, PhD
FOREWORD By tERENCE M. KEANE, PhD
If you have clients with anxiety symptoms that interfere with their day-to-day lives, they can
benefit from learning four simple skills that are at the heart of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT),
a cutting-edge therapeutic approach that can help anxiety sufferers better manage the panic
attacks, worries, and fears.
This book will help your clients learn the four powerful mindfulness skills: mindfulness, acceptance,
interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion regulation. In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills
Workbook for Anxiety, your clients will learn how to use each of these skills to manage anxiety,
worry, and stress. By combining simple, straightforward instruction in the use of these skills with
a variety of practical exercises, this workbook will help clients overcome their anxiety and move
forward in their lives.
“These dialectical behavior therapy skills should benefit everyone suffering the
ravages of anxiety disorders.”
—David Barlow, PhD, founder and director emeritus of the Center for Anxiety and Related
Disorders at Boston University
“This workbook will provide many anxiety sufferers with much-needed relief.”
—David F. Tolin, PhD, ABPP, director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living
“Filled with innovative and practical advice as well as lively metaphors and
engaging case examples, this book is sure to help readers struggling with anxiety
find a balance between acceptance and change.”
—Lizabeth Roemer, PhD, coauthor of The Mindful Way Through Anxiety
“These authors effectively describe in lay terms how mindfulness, distress tolerance,
emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills augment the more
traditional applications of cognitive behavioral therapy strategies in the treatment
of anxiety. In this book, the reader will find clinical vignettes, diagrams, and useful
worksheets in this book that enhance the process of learning of these DBT tools.”
—Alec L. Miller, PsyD, professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders n Chapter 2. Overview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and
Dialectical Behavior Therapy n Chapter 3. DBT Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance Skills n Chapter 4. DBT Emotion Regulation
and Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills n Chapter 5. Dealing with Stress n Chapter 6. Why Worry? n Chapter 7. DBT
Skills for Flashbacks, Nightmares, and Other Traumatic Stress Symptoms n Chapter 8. Panic Attacks n Chapter 9. Obsessions
and Compulsive Behaviors n Chapter 10. Social Anxiety References
Table of contents may vary from actual book.
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Alexander L. Chapman, PhD, is associate
professor in the department of psychology at
Simon Fraser University, a practicing registered
psychologist, and president of the DBT Centre of
Vancouver.
Kim L. Gratz, PhD, is associate professor in the
department of psychiatry and human behavior
at the University of Mississippi Medical Center,
where she serves as director of the dialectical
behavior therapy clinic and director of personality
disorders research.
Matthew T. Tull, PhD, is associate professor
and director of anxiety disorders research in the
department of psychiatry and human behavior at
the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Foreword writer Terence M. Keane, PhD, is
associate chief of staff for research and development
and director of the behavioral sciences
division of the National Center for PTSD at the VA
Boston Healthcare System. He is also president
of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America.
From The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety:
The problem is that avoidance just keeps the fear and anxiety alive. If you never go to a party, see friends, or
talk in front of people, you never get the chance to learn that whatever you were afraid of (such as humiliation
or embarrassment) usually doesn’t happen or isn’t all that bad when it does happen. So, the fear and anxiety are
kept alive. If, instead, you stopped avoiding anxiety-provoking situations, your brain would learn, over time, to
stop pressing the panic-anxiety-fear button, provided that nothing really bad happened.
8 x 10 / 240 pages / 2011
ISBN-10: 1-57224-9544
ISBN-13: 978-1-57224-9547
US $24.95
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