The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Effective Treatment provides mental health professionals with methods to better identify patients with health anxiety, the basic skills to manage it, and ways to successfully adapt cognitive behavioral therapy to treat it. The book features structured diagnostic instruments that can be used for assessment, while also underscoring the importance of conducting a comprehensive functional analysis of the patient’s problems. Sections cover refinements in assessment and treatment methods and synthesize existing literature on etiology and maintenance mechanisms.
Users will find an in-depth look at who develops health anxiety, what the behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that contribute to it are, why it persists in patients, and how it can be treated.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Chapter One: The Concept of Health Anxiety - p. ix 7. Chapter Two: A Diagnostic Perspective on Health Anxiety - p. 18 8. Chapter Three: Etiology and Epidemiology of Health Anxiety - p. 34 9. Chapter Four: Cognitive and Behavioral Mechanisms of Health Anxiety - p. 42 10. Chapter Five: Assessment of Health Anxiety - p. 64 11. Chapter Six: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Health Anxiety - p. 78 12. Chapter Seven: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Anxiety - p. 122 13. Chapter Eight: Using the Internet to Provide Treatment for Health Anxiety - p. 142 14. Chapter Nine: Dealing with Health Anxiety: The Physician’s Experience - p. 154 15. Chapter Ten: Health Anxiety in Children and Adolescents - p. 163 16. Index - p. 177
The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Effective Treatment provides mental health professionals with methods to better identify patients with health anxiety, the basic skills to manage it, and ways to successfully adapt cognitive behavioral therapy to treat it. The book features structured diagnostic instruments that can be used for assessment, while also underscoring the importance of conducting a comprehensive functional analysis of the patient’s problems. Sections cover refinements in assessment and treatment methods and synthesize existing literature on etiology and maintenance mechanisms.
Users will find an in-depth look at who develops health anxiety, what the behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that contribute to it are, why it persists in patients, and how it can be treated.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. ix 6. Chapter One: The Concept of Health Anxiety - p. ix 7. Chapter Two: A Diagnostic Perspective on Health Anxiety - p. 18 8. Chapter Three: Etiology and Epidemiology of Health Anxiety - p. 34 9. Chapter Four: Cognitive and Behavioral Mechanisms of Health Anxiety - p. 42 10. Chapter Five: Assessment of Health Anxiety - p. 64 11. Chapter Six: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Health Anxiety - p. 78 12. Chapter Seven: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Anxiety - p. 122 13. Chapter Eight: Using the Internet to Provide Treatment for Health Anxiety - p. 142 14. Chapter Nine: Dealing with Health Anxiety: The Physician’s Experience - p. 154 15. Chapter Ten: Health Anxiety in Children and Adolescents - p. 163 16. Index - p. 177
