There is a growing movement across health care to adopt empirically supported practice. This book fills an important gap in the literature with respect to psychological conditions. It has three key aims: firstly to identify components of models describing a range of specific psychological conditions that are empirically supported, poorly supported or unsupported; secondly to propose theoretical rationales for sequencing of interventions, and criteria for moving from one treatment procedure to the next; and thirdly to identify mechanisms of psychological syndromes that may interfere with...