Panic and Phobias 2: Treatments and Variables Affecting Course and Outcome

ISBN-13: 9783642735455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 275 str.

Iver Hand; Hans-Ulrich Wittchen; G. L. Klerman

Opis

This volume reports in four sections the most recent developments of treatments in anxiety disorders. The current well-elaborated, though partly controversial, behavioral, cognitive, psychophysiological, and biological concepts for treatment of anxiety disorders are carefully evaluated (Part I). Part II discusses results of the short- and long-term effectiveness of the respective treatment methods, their side effects, and failures. Promising new basic-experimental and clinical studies from twenty research centers in Europe, Australia, and the United States shed new light on the relevant behavioral and biological variables and mechanisms involved in the development (Part III) as well as in the course and outcome of anxiety disorders (Part IV). Thus, for the clinician as well as for the researcher, this book provides the most up-to-date information about the current state of treatment-relevant research in panic and phobias.

Spis treści

I: Psychological or Biological Treatments of Panic and Phobias: Current State of the Controversy.- 1. Natural Course and Spontaneous Remissions of Untreated Anxiety Disorders: Results of the Munich Follow-up Study (MFS).- 2. Biology and Pharmacological Treatment of Panic Disorder.- 3. The Mutually Potentiating Effects of Imipramine and Exposure in Agoraphobia.- II: Pharmacological, Cognitive, and Behavioral Treatment of Panic and Phobias: Current State of Research.- 4. Effects of Discontinuation of Antipanic Medication.- 5. Comparison of Alprazolam and Cognitive Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Panic Disorder: A Preliminary Report.- 6. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Panic.- 7. Cognitive Factors in the Treatment of Anxiety States.- 8. Long-Term Efficacy of Ungraded Versus Graded Massed Exposure in Agoraphobia.- 9. Exposure Treatment of Agoraphobia with Panic Attacks: Are Drugs Essential?.- III: Specific Variables Affecting Mode of Treatment: Experimental Studies on Physiology and Cognition.- 10. Panic Attacks in Nonclinical Subjects.- 11. Panic, Perception, and pCO2.- 12. Selective Information Processing, Interoception, and Panic Attacks.- 13. Tests of a Cognitive Theory of Panic.- 14. What Cognitions Differentiate Panic Disorder from Other Anxiety Disorders?.- 15. Factors Relevant to Lactate Response in Panic Disorder.- 16. Do Anxiety Patients Differ in Autonomic Base Levels and Stress Response from Normal Controls?.- 17. Comorbidity of Panic Disorder and Major Depression: Results from a Family Study.- 18. Anxiety and Sensitization: A Neuropsychological Approach.- IV: Specific Variables Affecting Treatment Outcome of Anxiety Disorders: Clinical, Psychosocial, and Interactional Factors.- 19. Failures in Exposure Treatment of Agoraphobia: Evaluation and Prediction.- 20. Prediction of Outcome Following In Vivo Exposure Treatment of Agoraphobia.- 21. Intra- and Interpersonal Characteristics Predictive of Long-Term Outcome Following Behavioral Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders.- 22. Martial Quality and Treatment Outcome in Anxiety Disorders.- 23. Patterns of Patient-Spouse Interaction in Agoraphobics: Assessment by Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) and Impact on Outcome of Self-Exposure Treatment.- Epilogue:.- Overview: Towards Integration in Panic and Phobias.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Iver Hand ist ärztlicher Leiter des Arbeitsbereichs Verhaltenstherapie am Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf in Hamburg. Forschungsschwerpunkt: Verhaltenstherapie (Dozent und Supervisor an Ausbildungsinstituten), Angst und Panikstörungen (neurobiologische und physiologische Grundlagen). Prof. Wittchen, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Klinische Psychologie und Epidemiologie, München; und TU Dresden, Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie: Einer der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Klinischen Psychologen, veröffentlicht u.a. die deutschen Versionen des Diagnostischen und Statistischen Manuals psychischer Störungen (DSM-IV).