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What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders: Key Concepts, Insights, and Interventions 1st Edition

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What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders is an integrated and practical approach to treating anxiety disorders for general psychotherapists. What is new and exciting is its focus on changing a patient’s relationship to anxiety in order to enable enduring recovery rather than merely offering a menu of techniques for controlling symptoms. Neither a CBT manual nor an academic text nor a self-help book, What Every Therapist Needs to Know About Anxiety Disorders offers page after page of key insights into ways to help patients suffering from phobias, panic attacks, unwanted intrusive thoughts, compulsions and worries. The authors offer a rich array of therapist-patient vignettes, case examples, stories, and metaphors that will complement the work of trainees and experienced clinicians of every orientation. Readers will come away from the book with a new framework for understanding some of the most frustrating clinical challenges in anxiety disorders, including "reassurance junkies," endless obsessional loops, and the paradoxical effects of effort.

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"Full of sage advice and enlivened by dozens of client–therapist vignettes, this book is an encyclopaedic sprint through the most common psychological problem in the world. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book is an ideal companion for the non-specialist practitioner.

―Sharon Breen, counsellor-in-training, coach and writer, for Therapy Today

"What Every Therapist Needs to Know about Anxiety Disorders is an exceptionally helpful and well-written book. Authors Seif and Winston, with their combined 70-plus years of experience in treating anxiety disorders, have gathered their enormous wealth of knowledge and experience into a highly readable and immediately applicable volume. Their theories have the solidness that only comes from long practice and research. Of central importance, they explain why many treatments (often standardly accepted) fail while freely sharing interventions they have proven to be successful. Professionals will find it informative and useful; those suffering from this cluster of disorders will be helped as well as feel understood and comforted. If you work with people with anxiety disorders, you need to read this book. If you are someone who suffers from anxiety disorders, you need to read this book. You will be glad you made the investment."

―Babette Rothschild, author of The Body Remembers and 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery

"Anxiety disorders present a myriad of distracting feelings, thoughts, and interpretations. Seif and Winston pull back the curtains to reveal the simple dynamic that maintains all anxieties and worries. You will learn how to persuade clients to drop their ‘get rid of’ mentality and adopt the powerful paradoxical responses that will serve as their ticket out of suffering. Here is the chance to learn from the wisdom of two master clinicians I’ve admired my entire career."

―Reid Wilson, PhD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and author of Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks.

"As a psychodynamically oriented therapist, I find this book brimming with useful insights and techniques that I can use to help my patients suffer less as they explore and understand themselves. The authors’ profound understanding of the workings of anxiety, based on their long experience, is illuminating and helpful to therapists of any theoretical orientation. Reading this book is like having a private consultation with the experts on anxiety and OCD. Free of jargon, the lucid and user-friendly style will make this book a frequently accessed companion for every therapist who has a sense that there is perhaps more one can do to alleviate patients’ often-crippling anxiety."

―Ruthellen Josselson, PhD, author of Playing Pygmalion: How People Create One Another.

"You won't feel anxious about working with anxious patients and won't know how much you didn't know about anxiety―yours and your patients―until after you read this book. The authors generously and expertly share their accumulated wisdom in a way that's nuanced, highly informative, and easy to grasp. Though the book is not primarily aimed at psychoanalysts, it is guaranteed to be thought provoking and productive to read because of its applicability to various treatment modalities, its richness, its originality, and its leading-edge approach."

―Sigalit Levy, PhD, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst at theWilliam Alanson White Institute

About the Author

Martin N. Seif, PhD, ABPP, cofounded the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and was a member of its board of directors from 1977 through 1991. Dr. Seif is associate director of the Anxiety and Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Hospital and a faculty member of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Medical School. He maintains a private practice in Manhattan and Greenwich, Connecticut, and leads Freedom to Fly, an airport-based program for fearful fliers.

Sally Winston, PsyD, cofounded the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, where she is codirector. She is the inaugural recipient of the Jerilyn Ross Award of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and has decades of experience treating patients, training therapists, and advocating for public awareness of anxiety disorders and advances in their treatment. She has given training workshops in the US, Canada, Asia, and Africa.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (June 20, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415828996
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415828994
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Customers find this book helpful for understanding and treating anxiety disorders. The authors provide useful tips, insights, and techniques from their personal and professional experiences. They distill contemporary research on anxiety disorders and provide concise, clear information. Readers describe it as an invaluable resource for clinicians and people who suffer from anxiety.

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Customers find the book helpful for understanding and treating anxiety disorders. They appreciate the authors' personal and professional experience in providing useful tips, insights, and techniques. The book distills contemporary research on anxiety disorders and provides concise, clear recommendations based on theory and clinical experience. It is an invaluable resource in their clinical practice.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2019
    I know this book is geared towards therapists but I honesty think it’s one of the best books on anxiety that I’ve read. I don’t have access to good CBT therapists where I live but i now feel like I have a resource that guides me towards how to recover from anxiety and a book that explains what is going on. This book also makes me realize how misunderstood I have been by therapists who just didn’t know better. If you are a therapist currently treating anxiety, I highly recommend reading this book. It is 100% clear that the authors understand anxiety from personal and professional experience and you will be such a great help to your patients if you understand and follow their advice on treatment. Also, the way they advise to relate to patients without judgement and without inaccurate diagnosis’s. It could be the difference of one of your patients suffering for a short while in your care through recovery vs them continuing suffering for many.. maybe 20 or more years. Thank you for this well written, compassionate, knowledgeable book. I’ve read many Claire Weekes books and this is a wonderful companion to those books. So thorough and helpful.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2015
    I have been treating anxiety disorders for close to 30 years and have rarely found a book so full of useful tips, insights and techniques for understanding and treating anxiety disorders. I give this book my highest recommendation. As opposed to working to eliminate anxiety the authors propose a very different approach...acceptance of your anxiety and from my experience this is exactly what works. The goal is not to eliminate anxiety but rather to take the stance that it doesn't matter if you're anxious or not. Anxiety sends us either totally false alarms or alarms that are much louder than they need to be. Reid Wilson has written about the "signal" vs "noise" distinction. Once we can see anxiety as "noise" then it doesn't matter if we feel anxious - just because you feel anxious does not mean that you're in any real danger. This book makes all of these points, and many more as well. This is a must read if you treat anxiety disorders.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2015
    I have been a Board Certified psychiatrist for almost 20 years, and have found Seif and Winston's Book to be the best that I have ever read on anxiety disorders. A thought that frequently went through my head as I was reading this was" why didn't someone teach me this years ago?" If you do choose to pick up up this easy– to –read book, you will be way ahead of the game.

    I would like to thank the the authors for writing such a concise, clinically relevant, well researched book that reveals their "insiders secrets". It fulfills the promise of its title quite handily.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019
    This text should be standard for all graduate programs in the helping profession. The authors are legitimate practitioners who have dedicated their lives and legacies to understanding and treating anxiety disorders and OCD and it shows in this text. Complex and nuanced ideas are distilled to something understandable and more important, applicable.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2019
    This is a great book for professionals and people who suffer from anxiety. It is thorough, clear, and effective.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2015
    The title says it all.
    This book distills contemporary research on anxiety disorders and provides concise, clear, always understandable recommendations based on theory and a wealth of clinical experience. The authors anticipate possible difficulties and misunderstandings and provide clarification at every juncture. It has been an invaluable resource in my clinical practice; I recommend it highly and without reservation.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2024
    I was so excited for this book, but the font is so tiny it’s not even readable for me unless I use a magnifying glass. I’m not exaggerating.

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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for all practitioners and trainees
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2020
    Very clear, readable and practical guide for anyone working with anxiety.
  • HMTreader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Australia on May 2, 2015
    Very useful even for a non therapist like myself
  • lynne obrien
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2019
    Excellent aide for counselling work with anxiety. Easily accessible
  • Gillian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2018
    A really useful informative read. Brilliant
  • KELLYANNE L PARSONS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2015
    Fab book totally advise to read if you want better understanding of anxiety