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Highlights
- Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT is more effective.
- About the Author: ASSEN ALLADIN is a clinical psychologist and adjunct associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary Medical School, Canada.
- 352 Pages
- Psychology, Movements
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Book Synopsis
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT is more effective.- An evidence-based approach to enhancing CBT with hypnosis and mindfulness when treating anxiety disorders shows how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT can become more effective
- Offers detailed and comprehensive coverage for practitioners, with specific protocols for each anxiety disorders covered and a hort case study per treatment chapter in order to demonstrate the approach in action
- Anxiety disorders is an area where the interaction between conscious and unconscious processes is especially important, and where the use of hypnotherapeutic and mindfulness techniques can therefore be especially effective
- Builds on the author's research and experience and develops his significant earlier work in this area - notably Cognitive Hypnotherapy: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Emotional Disorders (Wiley, 2008)
From the Back Cover
"Dr Assen Alladin has advanced our understanding of anxiety disorders and provided a model for truly integrative treatment that will serve as an extremely important and useful resource for clinicians for many years to come."
Gary Elkins, PhD, ABPP, ABPH, Professor,
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University
"This valuable text provides clear descriptions of evidence-based strategies for helping individuals better manage and recover from anxiety disorders. The case examples, drawn from Alladin's decades of clinical experience, are both interesting and informative, and make it possible for clinicians to envision how they can easily incorporate these proven techniques into their practice."
Mark P. Jensen, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, and author of Hypnosis for Chronic Pain Management
"We are fortunate, indeed, to encounter the breadth and depth of Dr Alladin's comprehensive knowledge. It culminates in deeply creative and caring clinical work that can inspire freshness and energy in our own efforts. Assen Alladin has once again given us an invaluable practical guide for our work with patients."
Claire Frederick, MD, Distinguished Consulting Faculty, Saybrook University, and past editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
This book applies a systematic integrative approach to the psychological treatment of DSM-5 anxiety disorders. Building on a solid base of evidence-based CBT, Assen Alladin shows how simple techniques drawn from mindfulness and hypnosis can be used to create settings within which the cognitive behavioural treatment of anxiety disorders can become more effective. Experimental research has shown that anxiety disorders have a large unconscious element, and psychodynamic techniques such as those used in hypnosis are therefore well-suited to uncover hidden associations and fears - thereby catalysing cognitive behavioural treatment.
Anxiety disorders for which the author's approach has been demonstrated to be effective include specific phobia, social phobia, GAD, panic disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobia and selective mutism. Each is explored in a dedicated chapter with illustrative case examples. The book also includes coverage of Wolfe's Focusing Technique (affect bridge), a powerful tool for exposing damaging associations, which can easily be combined with hypnosis to amplify the experiential effect. Each clinical chapter presents a broad array of strategies for treating specific anxiety disorders, from which therapists are able to select the most appropriate treatment for their individual patients.
About the Author
ASSEN ALLADIN is a clinical psychologist and adjunct associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary Medical School, Canada. He has practiced and taught both hypnosis and clinical psychology for three decades. Dr Alladin has published over 30 chapters and papers on clinical hypnosis, and is the author of Handbook of Cognitive-Hypnotherapy for Depression: An Evidence-Based Approach (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007), Hypnotherapy Explained (Radcliffe Publishing, 2008) and Cognitive Hypnotherapy: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Emotional Disorders (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).