Brosan Lee - The Complete CBT Guide for Anxiety

After more than three decades of research into cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders, there are now scientifically-based protocols for treating them. This book pulls them together in a way that is accessible to therapists, sufferers and their families. As many people have more than one type of anxiety problem, the book first describes the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy that cut across specific forms of anxiety. It also contains a comprehensive set of chapters on the treatment of the full range of anxiety disorders from international experts. It will be an invaluable resource to those concerned with the treatment of people suffering from anxiety, as well as to those with anxiety who want to learn how they can help themselves.

Lord Richard Layard

Programme Director at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics

Everyone suffering from various forms of anxiety and fear as well as therapists trying to help people with these difficulties will find this beautifully written manual extraordinarily valuable. For in it one will see what is common about different types of anxiety disorders from social anxiety to obsessions, as well as the essential differences, along with all of the important strategies for overcoming and mastering these thorny problems. This manual should be prescribed to everyone attempting to grapple with anxiety and its disorders.

David H. Barlow Ph.D, ABPP

Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry

Founder and Director Emeritus, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University

Nicole M. Alberts is a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Regina, Canada. Her research and clinical interests include health anxiety as well as the assessment and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders and their associations with health conditions.

Lee Brosan is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust and Trust Lead for the Development of Psychological Therapies. She is a Clinical Associate at the MRC Cognitive and Brain Science Unit in Cambridge, and a founder member of the Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorders (C2:AD). She has been qualified as a cognitive therapist for nearly twenty years.

Gillian Butler is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist working with Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Through ten years of clinical research with the University of Oxford in the 1980s she helped to develop CBT for social phobia, and to evaluate its effectiveness. One of her interests is in writing about current practices in CBT, so as to help people resolve problems such as the social anxiety that can otherwise interfere with their lives.

David M. Clark is Professor of Experimental Psychology and Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (London), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (London), an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (USA). Among other awards and honours, he has received the following during his career: the May Davidson Award (British Psychological Society); the American Psychological Association Distinguished Contribution to Applications of Psychology Award; the Academy of Cognitive Therapys Research Award; an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the London School of Economics (LSE), and has been voted a World Leader in Anxiety Disorders Research by members of the Anxiety Disorders of America Association (1998).

Peter Cooper is Co-director of the Winnicott Research Unit and Research Director of the Berkshire Child Anxiety Clinic. He holds a research chair in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. His principal current research interests concern elucidating the impact of early environmental factors on child socio-emotional development and evaluating intervention programmes to mitigate this impact; and developing and evaluating interventions to (i) improve clinical outcomes in anxious children and children with certain congenital abnormalities, and (ii) facilitate optimal child socio-emotional and cognitive development in the developing world.

Anke Ehlers is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Experimental Psychopathology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. She is Co-director of the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, Maudsley Hospital, London, and the Oxford Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Her main research interests are the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorder, and social phobia. She co-chaired the NICE Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Guideline (2005) Development Group.

Mark Freeston is Head of Research and Development at the Newcastle Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies Centre and Professor of Clinical Psychology at Newcastle University. He divides his time between NHS duties, where he directed the Newcastle Diploma in Cognitive Therapy for ten years, and the University of Newcastle, where he teaches research methods. He has published extensively on intrusive thoughts, OCD, worry and their treatment, leads an active research programme, and provides workshops on their treatment in the UK and elsewhere.

Nick Grey is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Joint Clinical Director of the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT), South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He helps develop and disseminate cognitive therapy treatments for people with anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Heather Hadjistavropoulos is a Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the University of Regina, Canada. She founded the Psychology Training Clinic and the Online Therapy Unit at the University of Regina, and offers training to students and community providers in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders. Her research aims to improve: anxiety and depression in medical and nonmedical populations; quality of health care; and training in clinical psychology.

Shannon L. Jones is in the final year of her training as a PhD student in clinical psychology at the University of Regina, Canada. Her research interests focus primarily on anxiety disorders and anxiety-related conditions, health psychology, and online cognitive-behaviour therapy. Clinically, Shannons interests are in the assessment and treatment of adults with anxiety and mood disorders and in clinical health psychology settings, including psychosocial oncology.

Freda McManus is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She is currently Acting Director of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, and a Clinical Research Fellow in the University of Oxfords Department of Psychiatry. She has worked clinically for twenty years and has a range of experience in developing and evaluating CBT interventions for anxiety disorders as part of research teams at the University of Oxford and at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. She has published widely in both clinical and academic texts, in the areas of CBT for anxiety disorders, and on training healthcare professionals to carry out CBT interventions.

Kevin Meares is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist. He works for the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust at the North East Traumatic Stress Centre. He has been a therapist for more than fifteen years. He is an experienced supervisor and trainer, regularly leading CBT workshops on GAD and PTSD. In 2008 he co-authored the self-help book