Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders

188 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES the actual outcome related to an anxious situation. The goal is to teach clients how ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 189 Clinician Guideline 6.5 The therapist focuses on correcting low perceived self- efficacy ...

190 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES Dysfunctional Avoidance and Safety- Seeking Behavior An important objective in cognit ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 191 provided in a manner that clients can readily understand and apply to their own situ- at ...

192 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES Adaptive Value of Fear Most individuals suffering from an anxiety disorder have forgo ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 193 Consequences of Inappropriate Anxiety Most individuals with an anxiety disorder are all ...

194 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES in anxiety. The therapist and client can discuss a number of life- threatening exampl ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 195 Treatment Goal In keeping with our metaphor of fear as “a computer program,” the therapi ...

196 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES ance, safety- seeking behavior, and other cognitive or behavioral responses employed ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 197 ing whether subtle forms of avoidance and safety seeking have an effect on her anxiety l ...

198 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES anxiety are often readily available to individuals, and will give them practice in tr ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 199 monitoring homework. Many clients do not like filling in forms or writing about their an ...

200 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES At the beginning of each session I will review last week’s homework with you. You can ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 201 ering, cost– benefit analysis, decatastrophizing, identifying cognitive errors, generati ...

202 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES Th e r a p i sT: Renée, I notice from your panic log that last Wednesday you were dri ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 203 yet it doesn’t help makes me convinced something is terribly wrong. If all of this was j ...

204 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES cL i e nT: No, I’m stuck. Th e r a p i sT: Have you ever noticed whether there is any ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 205 Th e r a p i sT: I understand but the more you practice correcting the anxious thoughts ...

206 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES costs and benefits of this approach are written in the lower half of the form. Again ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 207 ditures. Both (1) and (5) were marked as significant advantages of the new perspec- tive ...