CBT For Anxiety Disorders

Gregoris Simos is Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Macedonia, Greece. Dr. Simos is the editor of CBT: A Guide for the Practicing Clinician, Volumes I (2002) and Volume II (2009), and a co-founder and President of the Greek Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies (GACBP). Stefan G. Hofmann is Professor of Psychology at Boston University and the Director of the Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory. He is a former editor of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, incoming editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research, associate editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and author of more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and 9 books, including An Introduction to Modern CBT (2011, Wiley-Blackwell). He is also the 2011 President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

• List of Contributors viiList of Figures, Tables, and Boxes ixIntroduction 1Gregoris Simos and Stefan G. Hofmann1 Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia 3Michelle G. Craske and Gregoris Simos2 Obsessive–Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Diagnosis, Theory, and Treatment 25David A. Clark and Gregoris Simos3 Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Targeting Intolerance of Uncertainty 57Melisa Robichaud4 Social Anxiety Disorder: Treatment Targets and Strategies 87Stefan G. Hofmann, Jacqueline Bullis, and Cassidy Gutner5 Specific Phobias 107Lars-Goran Ost and Lena Reuterskiold6 Health Anxiety 135Michel A. Thibodeau, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, and Steven Taylor7 Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress Disorder 161Anke Ehlers8 Culturally Appropriate CBT for the Anxiety Disorders 191Devon E. Hinton and Martin La Roche9 Newer Generations of CBT for Anxiety Disorders 225Michael P. Twohig, Michelle R. Woidneck, and Jesse M. CrosbyIndex 251