Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic: Therapist Guide Fifth Edition (Treatments That Work 5th ed/5e)

"Clear, concise, and user-friendly, the 5th edition of the Therapist Guide is now infused with the recently developed inhibitory learning approaches to enable therapists to maximize effectiveness of the exposure procedures in the Workbook. I strongly urge all therapists using the Workbook to follow this new Guide." -- Ricks Warren, PhD, ABPP, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School  "The authors have updated this classic text with new research, an enhanced emphasis on inhibitory learning, and new and improved case material.ÂThis new edition pays more attention to variability in how fast or slow a client is able move through the treatment, improving the patient-treatment âmatchâ.ÂThe end result facilitates implementation for the user and is in a way like having a personal supervision experience with the authors." -- Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine  "These volumes are indisputably the finest evidence-based books for helping people overcome panic disorder. The 5th edition of the therapist guide is especially valuable as it features numerous, brief conversational vignettes featuring both common and atypical problems that Barlow and Craske have encountered during their long clinical careers and guidance on how best to address them." -- Richard J. McNally, PhD,ÂProfessor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training,ÂHarvard University 

Michelle G. Craske, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Miller Family Endowed Term Chair, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center, and Associate Director of the Staglin Family Music Center for Behavioral and Brain Health, at UCLA. She has published extensively in the area of fear, anxiety and depression and has been the recipient of extramural funding since 1993 for research pertaining to cognitive, behavioral, psychophysiological and neural risk factors for anxiety and depression that have informed novel treatments; innovative approaches to optimizing therapies such as virtual reality; and implementing scalable treatment models to underserved populations. David H. Barlow is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Emeritus and the Founder of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. He has published over 650 articles and chapters and over 90 books and clinical manuals. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including honorary degrees from the University of Vermont and William James College, and the two highest awards in psychology, the Distinguished Scientific Award for Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association and James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science honoring individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research.