Dealing with Anxiety and Related Disorders

Rudy Nydegger, PhD, is Professor of Management and Psychology at Union College and Union Graduate College in Schenectady, NY, as well as Chief of Psychology at Ellis Hospital.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1 What Is Anxiety?The Age of AnxietyDiagnosing Anxiety DisordersDiagnostic and Statistical ManualMultiaxial DiagnosesMyths about AnxietyPeople Who Suffer from Anxiety Disorders2 Living with Anxiety DisordersCase 1: BetsyCase 2: DanCase 3: Cheri3 The Distribution and Effects of Anxiety Disorders: Costs, Gender, Age, and Specific GroupsGender and Anxiety DisordersWomen and AnxietyMen and AnxietyAge and AnxietyChildren and Teens and AnxietyDiagnosing and Treating Children and TeensAnxiety Disorders in the ElderlyTreatment of Anxiety in the ElderlyRace, Ethnicity, and Anxiety DisordersAfrican Americans and AnxietyAsian Americans and AnxietyHispanic Americans and AnxietyNative Americans and Alaskan Natives and AnxietyHomosexual Groups and AnxietyReligious Groups and Anxiety4 Theories of Anxiety DisordersBiological TheoriesPsychological TheoriesPsychodynamic ApproachesHumanistic and Existential ApproachesBehavioral ApproachesCognitive ApproachesIntegrating the Different TheoriesWho Is Vulnerable?5 Physical Responses and Types of Anxiety Disorders I: Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic DisorderPhysical Responses to Stress and AnxietyResponses of the BrainResponses by the Heart, Lungs, and Circulatory SystemResponses by the Immune SystemResponses in the Mouth and ThroatSkin ResponsesMetabolic ResponsesPhysical Responses When Stress or Anxiety Disappears or When It ContinuesOther Sources of Anxiety-like SymptomsTypes of Anxiety Disorders IGeneralized Anxiety DisorderPanic Disorder6 Types of Anxiety Disorders II: Phobias, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderPhobiasSpecific PhobiasSocial PhobiaPosttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress DisorderObsessive-Compulsive Disorder7 Treatments for Anxiety DisordersMedical Treatments for Anxiety DisordersAntidepressant MedicationsAntianxiety (Anxiolytic) MedicationsAdditional Medications and Natural SubstancesPregnancy and MedicationsOther Medical Forms of TreatmentPsychological Treatments of Anxiety DisordersOther Psychosocial Treatment Approaches8 Treatment Methods for Specific Anxiety Disorders and Patient GroupsPanic DisorderGeneralized Anxiety DisorderSocial Anxiety DisorderSpecific PhobiaObsessive-Compulsive DisorderPosttraumatic Stress DisorderOther Considerations in Treating Anxiety Disorders9 Living with Anxiety DisordersWho Needs Treatment?Where to Seek TreatmentTypes of Mental Health ProfessionalsIs Treatment Working, and When Is It Completed?What Patients Can Do to Help Themselves: Stress Management10 Somatoform DisordersMalingering and Factitious DisordersHypochondriasisSomatization DisorderConversion DisorderPain DisorderBody Dysmorphic DisorderOther Types of Somatoform Disorders11 Dissociative DisordersBackground and HistoryDissociative Disorders in GeneralDepersonalization DisorderDissociative AmnesiaDissociative Fugue DisorderDissociative Trance DisorderDissociative Identity DisorderTreatments for Dissociative Disorders12 Making Sense of It AllChanging Conceptions of Anxiety and Related DisordersCoping with Anxiety and Related DisordersBeing a Positive Voice for Good Mental HealthMaking a DifferenceResourcesReferencesIndex