Treating Clients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Michelle G. Craske, PhD Part of the Specific Treatments for Specific Populations APA Psychotherapy Video Series LIST PRICE: $99.95 MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $69.95 ITEM #: 4310847 ISBN: 1-4338-0329-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-4338-0329-1 RUNNING TIME: Over 100 minutes FORMAT: DVD [Closed Captioned]

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In Treating Clients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dr. Michelle G. Craske demonstrates her cognitive–behavioral approach to working with clients with this disorder. Generalized anxiety disorder involves consistent feelings of anxiety, excessive worry, and tension. Typically there is little or no provocation for the client's worry, and there may also be physical symptoms such as muscle aches and fatigue. Cognitive–behavioral therapy focuses on thoughts and actions that might contribute to the anxiety and on helping clients see any negative bias they may have in interpreting information.

In this session, Dr. Craske works with a 56-year-old woman who feels overwhelmed by her workload and worries incessantly about her son. Dr. Craske guides the client through anxiety-producing imagery, introduces strategies for handling her anxiety, and helps the client begin to interpret life events in a more realistic way.

Dr. Craske uses a cognitive–behavioral therapy approach that draws upon the latest developments in cognitive science and learning theory. She uses a biopsychosocial model for conceptualizing anxiety disorders, in which the broad-based vulnerability of neuroticism, or proneness to negative affect, along with its genetic and environmental contributions, is recognized as a primary factor that increases the risk for all forms of anxiety as well as depression.

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Michelle G. Craske received her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1985. She has published over 200 articles and chapters in the area of fear and anxiety disorders. She has written books on the topics of the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders, gender differences in anxiety, and translation from the basic science of fear learning to the clinical application of understanding and treating phobias, in addition to several self-help books and therapist guides.

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• Barlow, D. H., & Craske, M. G. (2006). Mastery of your panic and anxiety: Client workbook (4th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Craske, M. G. (1999). Anxiety disorders: Psychological approaches to theory and treatment. Denver, CO: Westview Press/Basic Books.
• Craske, M. G., Antony, M., & Barlow, D. H. (2006). Mastery of your fears and phobias: Therapist guide (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Craske., M. G., & Barlow, D. H. (2005). Mastery of your anxiety and worry: Client workbook (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Craske, M. G., & Barlow, D. H. (2006). Mastery of your panic and anxiety: Therapist guide (3rd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Craske, M. G., & Barlow, D. H. (in press). Panic disorder and agoraphobia. In D. H. Barlow (Ed.), Clinical handbook of psychological disorders (4th ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
• Craske, M. G., & Mystkowski, J. (2006). Exposure therapy and extinction: Clinical studies. In M. G. Craske, D. Hermans, & D. Vansteenwegen (Eds.), Fear and learning: Basic science to clinical application. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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