Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic (Map-3): Client Workbook (Paperback)

Product Description
Map-III is a systematic cognitive-behavioral program, which uses behavioral self-monitoring to increase awareness of circumstances that trigger panic symptoms. Clients learn specific intervention skills, including how to slow down physiological reactivity through breathing retraining and muscle relaxing training; how to de-catastrophise through actual prediction testing; and how to lessen fearfulness through exposure to feared sensations in safe settings. This workbook is intended to accompany the "MAP-3 Client Workbook for Anxiety and Panic" (ISBN 0-19-518697-4), but is written for individuals who have agoraphobia. This workbook deals mostly with agoraphobic avoidances. Many of the principles and procedures described in this workbook follow directly from the principles and procedures of the client workbook for anxiety and panic. Therefore, the authors suggest that the clients read the client workbook for anxiety and panic before starting with this workbook. They recommend doing so even if the clients are not currently experiencing panic attacks because, as they describe in much more detail in the chapters, agoraphobia tends to be fueled by a person's concerns about having panic attacks or panic-like symptoms, even when panic attacks have not happened for quite some time. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Michelle G. Craske received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1985 and has published over 100 articles and chapters in the areas of anxiety disorders and fear. Currently, she is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Research Program. She continues to serve on the DSM-IV Anxiety Disorders Workgroup Subcommittee, which is charged with revising the text that accompanies the diagnostic
criteria; is a consultant to various national organizations in their efforts to develop and disseminate practice guidelines for panic disorder and other anxiety disorders; and has been awarded NIMH/NIH funds for the study of anxiety disorders. Her research focuses on furthering the understanding of fear and anxiety and in developing more effective treatments for the anxiety disorders. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.