| Summary: | "This book covers a more efficient framework for understanding and targeting the processes shown to contribute to clinical anxiety in its various manifestations, irrespective of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM₆5) or International Classification of Diseases (ICD₆11) diagnosis. Specifically, and diverging from a disorder-based focus, the chapters in this book delineate key empirically supported maintenance processes and theorized mechanisms of change (e.g., inhibitory learning) driving treatment efficacy. Understanding, assessing, and treating clinical anxiety at this functional level allows clinicians to use cognitive and behavioral methods to their maximum capacity. The book is organized into two parts. Each chapter in Part I defines and describes a general format in which the psychological maintenance process. It discusses the process's conceptual implications (i.e., how it contributes to the maintenance of clinical anxiety) and describes methods for assessing the process, including self-report, interview, and observational methods. Finally, it highlights the clinical implications of the process using case examples to illustrate how a therapist might encounter this process in their clinical work with patients presenting with clinical anxiety. The chapters in Part II focus on candidate mechanisms of change thought to explain how treatment works, describing methods for implementing therapeutic techniques that activate the particular change mechanism. The book finally enables clinicians working with patients with anxiety to slip the restrictive bonds of DSM₆5 and ICD₆11 diagnoses and treatment manuals and operate more flexibly and with a richer understanding of cognitive and behavioral principles and mechanisms of change."--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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