Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders

208 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES intervention also has a number of other therapeutic benefits such as realigning threa ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 209 if her heart rate was too high. After a number of sessions involving education and less ...

210 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES to conclusions, tunnel vision, nearsightedness, emotional reasoning, and all-or- noth ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 211 tions. Most clients will be able to produce the “most dreaded outcome” and the “most des ...

212 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES for depression (Beck et al., 1979), behavioral experiments are planned, structured ex ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 213 refute the anxious belief and supports the alternative interpretation. Given the over- w ...

214 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES therapist should record the anxious appraisal on the Empirical Hypothesis- Testing Fo ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 215 other students that indicated they were looking directly at her. Fifteen minutes into th ...

216 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES behaviors or other self- protective measures were utilized; (4) observations about ho ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 217 Step 7. Findings and Implications Summarized A final step in empirical hypothesis testin ...

218 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES individual how to interrupt repetitive self- attentional processing that contributes ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 219 (i.e., self- conscious) and how bad she feels, she is instructed to shift her focus of a ...

220 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES ious thoughts have been identified, the therapist can probe for metacognitive process ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 221 Metacognitive Control An important part of intervention at the metacognitive level is a ...

222 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES obvious initial step in exposure. This is followed by asking clients to write out a n ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 223 2-hour group sessions guide participants in exercises that increase moment-by- moment no ...

224 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES ••Self as context—ACT focuses on helping clients release their attachment to an unhea ...

Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety 225 3-month follow-up. Twohig, Hayes, and Masuda (2006) utilized a multiple- baseline, acros ...

226 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES therapy, can be especially difficult given the heightened emotional state and situati ...

227 From Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice by David A. Clark and Aaron T. Beck. Copyright 2010 by The ...