Solution Focused Anxiety Management

Solution Focused Anxiety Management

A Treatment and Training Manual

1st Edition - February 13, 2013

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  • Author: Ellen Quick
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123978134
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780123944214

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Solution Focused Anxiety Management provides the clinician with evidence-based techniques to help clients manage anxiety. Cognitive behavioral and strategic tools, acceptance-based ideas, and mindfulness are introduced from a solution-focused perspective and tailored to client strengths and preferences. The book presents the conceptual foundation, methods, and attitudes of a solution-focused approach. Case examples illustrate how to transform anxiety into the "Four Cs" (courage, coping, appropriate caution and choice). Readers learn how to utilize solution focused anxiety management in single-session, brief, and intermittent therapy as well as in a class setting. The book additionally includes all materials needed for teaching solution focused anxiety management in a four-session psychoeducational class: complete instructor notes, learner readings, and companion online materials. Special Features: Focuses on what works in anxiety management Presents evidenced based techniques from a solution-focused perspective Increases effectiveness by utilizing client strengths and preferences Describes applications in single session, brief, and intermittent therapy Supplies forms and worksheets for the therapist to use in practice Features clinically rich case examples Supplements text with online companion material Suitable for use as a treatment manual, reference, or course text

Key Features

  • Offers a solution-focused anxiety treatment
  • Focuses on anxiety management, not "elimination"
  • Translates the program to individual therapy
  • Presents patient exercises and case examples
  • Includes a guide for teaching/learning this therapeutic technique

Readership

Clinical psychologists and psychologists in training.

Table of Contents

  • Preface

    Companion Website and Materials That can be Duplicated Freely

    Overview of the Book

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter 1. What Is Solution Focused Anxiety Management, and How Is It Different from Other Approaches?

    The Solution-focused Perspective

    Methods in Solution-focused Therapy

    Attitudes in Solution-focused Therapy

    Strategic Solution Focused Therapy

    The Evolution of Solution Focused Anxiety Management

    How Is Solution Focused Anxiety Management Similar to and Different from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety?

    How Is Solution Focused Anxiety Management Similar to and Different from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety?

    The Strategic Component

    What Makes This Program “Solution-Focused”?

    Why Is This Program Presented as a Class?

    How Does This Approach Fit with Evidence-based Treatment?

    Chapter 2. Conducting a Solution Focused Anxiety Management Class: “The Nuts and the Bolts”

    How Is This Program Similar to and Different from Group Therapy?

    What about Medication?

    How to Use This Information If You Are Teaching or Preparing to Teach a Solution Focused Anxiety Management Class

    How to Describe the Program and Invite Participants

    Challenges Encountered and Managing Them

    How to Use This Information If You Are a Therapist Who Sees People Individually

    How to Use This Information If You Are Taking a Solution Focused Anxiety Management Class

    How to use this Information If You Are Not Taking a Solution Focused Anxiety Management Class and Would Like to Learn this Material on Your Own

    Chapter 3. Instructor Notes for Topic One: Physical Reactions and Coping Techniques

    Welcome and Introduction

    Physical Reactions and Coping Techniques

    An Interesting Perspective

    Suggestions for Practice

    End of Session Form and Feedback

    Chapter 4. Instructor Notes for Topic Two: Behavioral Techniques

    Welcome and Introduction

    Behavioral Techniques

    Exposure and Habituation

    The Commonsense and the Counterintuitive

    Courage Ladders

    Tools for Panic Attacks

    Tools for “Obsessions and Compulsions”

    Tools for Social Situations

    Tools for “Worry”

    Write, Read, and Shred

    Tools for Anxiety about Medical Procedures

    When “Pure” Exposure Isn’t Applicable

    Being Anxious and Doing It Anyway

    Discovering and Building on How You Learn

    Building Courage Ladders

    Suggestions for Practice

    End of Session Form and Feedback

    Chapter 5. Instructor Notes for Topic Three: Thinking Techniques

    Welcome and Introduction

    Thinking Coping Techniques

    Suggestions for Practice

    End of Session Form and Feedback

    Chapter 6. Instructor Notes for Topic Four: Life Issues and Anxiety

    Welcome and Introduction

    Life Issues and Anxiety

    The Pros and Cons of Managing Your Anxiety

    I Can’t vs. I Don’t Want To

    Assertion

    Developmental Tasks

    Suggestions for Practice

    End of Session Form and Feedback

    Chapter 7. Solution Focused Anxiety Management and Individual Therapy

    Solution-focused Methods and Attitudes

    Adding Psychoeducational Information to Individual Solution-focused Therapy

    Brief Therapy Case Example: Sheila

    Single Session Case Example: John

    Intermittent Therapy with the Class: Pam

    Cat Phobia: George

    The Client as Expert

    Tapping Resources for Growing Courage

    Chapter 8. Appropriate Caution as an Ingredient of the Solution

    Defensive Pessimism

    Preference for the Routine: A Style, Not Psychopathology

    Case Example: Appropriate Caution in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Case Example: “OCD Hoarding”

    Case Example: “I’ve Always Been a Worrier”

    Discussion of Appropriate Caution in the Solution Focused Anxiety Management Class

    Chapter 9. Perspectives from the Solution-focused Community

    Interview with Joel Simon, LCSW

    Interview with Linda Metcalf, PhD, LMFT

    Interview with Jay McKeel, MS

    Interview with Frank Thomas, PhD, LMFT

    Interview with Heather Fiske, PhD

    Interview with Elliott Connie, MA, LPC

    Interview with Yvonne Dolan, MA

    Input from Other Solution-focused Colleagues

    Emerging Themes and Author Commentary

    Chapter 10. Concluding Questions: What Creates Change in Solution Focused Anxiety Management, and How Can We Do More of It?

    Take-home Messages in a Solution Focused Anxiety Management Class

    Second-order Change: A Possible Explanatory Factor

    Solution-focused Practice: A Perspective That May Last for Generations

    How Can We Build on What Works?

    Appendix A. Learner Readings for Topic One: Physical Reactions and Coping Techniques

    Physical Reactions

    Coping Techniques

    An Interesting Perspective

    Suggestions for Practice

    Appendix B. Learner Readings for Topic Two: Behavioral Techniques

    Exposure and Habituation

    The Commonsense and the Counterintuitive

    Courage Ladders

    Tools for Panic Attacks

    Tools for “Obsessions and Compulsions”

    Tools for Social Situations

    Tools for “Worry”

    Write, Read, and Shred

    Tools for Anxiety about Medical Procedures

    When “Pure” Exposure Isn’t Applicable

    Being Anxious and Doing It Anyway

    Discovering and Building on How You Learn

    Building Your Courage Ladder

    Suggestions for Practice

    Appendix C. Learner Readings for Topic Three: Thinking Techniques

    Thinking Techniques

    Suggestions for Practice

    Appendix D. Learner Readings for Topic Four: Life Issues and Anxiety

    The Pros and Cons of Managing Your Anxiety

    I Can’t Versus I Don’t Want To

    Assertion

    Developmental Tasks

    Suggestions for Practice

    References

    Subject Index

Product details

  • No. of pages: 326
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2013
  • Published: February 13, 2013
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123978134
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780123944214

About the Author

Ellen Quick

Ellen K. Quick, Ph.D., earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She has practiced psychology for over twenty years, specializing in brief psychotherapy. Since 1981, Dr. Quick has worked at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, California.

Affiliations and Expertise

Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA, USA

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