New Member Books: Winter 2025

New E-book Supplies Up to date Steering, Insights, and Remedy for Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia

Whether or not an individual suffers from one or the opposite or each, panic dysfunction and agoraphobia might be intensely debilitating circumstances, particularly if left untreated. However the reality is each are extremely manageable and remedy outcomes are very efficient, significantly when cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT) is utilized by expert and well-trained psychological well being suppliers.

Offering his personal experience, information, and years of medical expertise and evidence-based follow, Simon Rego, PsyD, ABPP, A-CBT, in his latest guide, provides sensible steerage, specialised perception, and adaptable methods to tailor remedy to particular person sufferers.

Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia (Vol 55) – Advances in Psychotherapy Proof-Based mostly Apply, a brand new quantity within the Advances in Psychotherapy collection, is a concise and present overview of each problems that addresses diagnosing, assessing, and treating these circumstances with the newest interventions in CBT. Described as “a great useful resource for medical psychologists, different psychological well being professionals, and college students,” Dr. Rego’s guide consists of useful descriptions of the problems, opinions scientific theories and fashions, and guides readers by way of the diagnostic and remedy decision-making course of.

In keeping with Dr. Rego, this guide is a “fusion of traditional CBT interventions primarily based on the emotional processing mannequin, akin to in vivo and interoceptive publicity, with newer interventions taken from the inhibitory studying mannequin of extinction, together with actively studying new associations by creating violations of expectations folks have concerning the penalties of panic signs and panic assaults.”

Whereas there are a lot of books on evidence-based follow on the market, Dr. Rego feels this explicit collection of books has a “nice consistency throughout all volumes” and the publications are structured in a method that anybody studying certainly one of them can have a way of how the opposite books will unfold.

“These books are extremely readable, aligned with present theories, and provide sensible methods, in addition to case examples,” he mentioned, “they’re nice for busy clinicians who have to digest data effectively.”

With a step-by-step method, detailed case vignettes, an overview of a 12-session remedy, and downloadable worksheets, Dr. Rego’s information will help practitioners really feel extra assured and certified when working with their sufferers to overcome debilitating fears and anxieties, and dwell extra absolutely.

Dr. Rego felt the time was proper for an replace which included a number of the more moderen advances in panic dysfunction and agoraphobia remedy.

“The literature hasn’t had an replace with a practitioner-based guide for panic in fairly a while,” mentioned Dr. Rego advised ADAA, “I hope practitioners can use this guide as a ‘catch up’ or refresher and hopefully it provides a couple of new concepts.”

Pre-order Panic Dysfunction and Agoraphobia (55) – Advances in Psychotherapy Proof-Based mostly Apply right here. Launch date March 30, 2025.

New Anxiousness Workbook for Children Doesn’t Really feel Like Work – Have Enjoyable Squashing Fears and Worries!

Simply because a workbook is kid-friendly doesn’t make it enjoyable. However a brand new workbook by ADAA member Debra Kissen, PhD, MHSA, and co-authors Meena Dugatkin, PsyD, and Grace Cusack, LPC (with a foreword by ADAA member Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD), is simply that.

Grounded in evidence-based psychology (however we gained’t inform your youngsters in case you don’t), The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Children: Enjoyable CBT Actions to Squash Your Fears and Worries helps kids flip anxious ideas into curiosity, willpower, and bravado.

Dr. Kissen says the workbook, which makes use of abilities primarily based on cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT), is “playful and interactive and helps make the subject of hysteria really feel much less heavy and overwhelming.”

“My co-authors and I wished to jot down a guide that provides kids and their dad and mom a set of instruments to face fears in an approachable, enjoyable, and empowering method,” Dr. Kissen advised ADAA. “One thing that helps take the thriller and concern out of hysteria, permitting youngsters to know what’s taking place of their our bodies and minds, and giving them actionable steps to relax and really feel protected in conditions that have been as soon as scary.”

Filled with 25 partaking video games and actions, every chapter of the guide features a kid-friendly introduction, then jumps into kid-approved silliness (occurring a Worry-Busting Scavenger Hunt or visiting the I-Scream Store), and concludes by rewarding kids for all their wonderful “work” with a go to to Celebration Station! And there are prizes!

With artistic workouts, relatable metaphors, and colourful illustrations that simplify advanced ideas, Dr. Kissen says that she and her co-authors wished youngsters to “really feel enthusiastic about finishing the actions, as if they’re on a fear-busting journey.”

Anxiousness isn’t one thing to be feared or ashamed of, Dr. Kissen added, stating that even kids have the ability to coach their anxiousness to work for them and never in opposition to them.

“Anxiousness is simply your mind’s method of making an attempt to maintain you protected, even when it will get a bit overprotective at occasions,” Dr. Kissen mentioned, “however with small, courageous steps, youngsters can educate their anxiousness ‘guard canine’ to bark much less.”

The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Children is for youngsters ages 6 to 12 and their dad and mom, in addition to academics, college counselors, and anybody supporting a toddler with anxiousness.

“Our hope is that the workbook helps youngsters, with the assist of their dad and mom, face anxiousness with a versatile and playful mindset, as an alternative of hiding from it, combating it, or feeling caught,” Dr. Kissen mentioned. “With their new CBT toolbox in hand, they’ll come to see anxiousness as one thing that may really feel uncomfortable however is rarely harmful or past their potential to handle and transfer previous.”

Order The Anxiousness Busting Workbook for Children: Enjoyable CBT Actions to Squash Your Fears and Worries right here.

New E-book Seems to be at ‘What Anxiousness Seems to be Like’ Via Tales, Options, and CBT Abilities

When psychologist and anxiousness skilled David A. Clark, PhD, got here throughout over 50,000 ends in an Amazon guide seek for “anxiousness”, he did at first pause to ask himself if yet one more guide on the subject was wanted. Fortunately he determined to publish That is What Anxiousness Seems to be Like: Relatable Tales, Focused Options, and CBT Abilities for Lasting Aid.

The ADAA member’s new guide, as its title suggests, takes a have a look at anxiousness in methods many books on the market don’t. And it offers readers with contemporary, sensible, and concrete choices to have a look at their (or maybe a beloved one’s) anxiousness and face it with compassion, willpower, and ability.

Whereas not a workbook, Dr. Clark’s publication is practical. The method to the “work” is a bit completely different however accessible and efficient.

“I thought of all of the people I’ve labored with over time who simply don’t like workbooks, who discover them discouraging,” Dr. Clark advised ADAA. “So what a few guide for individuals who don’t desire a workbook? That is What Anxiousness Seems to be Like shouldn’t be a workbook, however every chapter does embrace some directions on learn how to use sensible methods to beat particular options of hysteria.”

As an alternative of worksheets and workouts, Dr. Clark, on this temporary, non-academic guide, incorporates partaking, relatable tales. He consists of “medical composites” which aren’t precise circumstances he has encountered however they symbolize a number of the primary relatable struggles folks face with anxiousness. He makes use of tales to speak concepts and offers ideas, methods, and options, in addition to abilities primarily based on cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT). For every story he offers three or 4 remedy interventions.

So what does anxiousness appear to be?

Anxiousness can appear to be catastrophic considering, rumination, fixed reassurance looking for, concern – whether or not of uncertainty, dropping management or a way of doom – and power avoidance, to call a couple of. Dr. Clark’s guide outlines greater than a dozen acknowledged classes of hysteria however what he highlights is that anxiousness is an emotion and also you don’t must have a prognosis to have a problem with anxiousness. However when the difficulty turns into problematic, interfering with day by day life or is debilitating indirectly, then his guide may assist.

“Anxiousness is an emotion like concern or unhappiness, however a posh emotion that may have an effect on completely different elements of our lives. There’s wholesome anxiousness and there’s problematic anxiousness,” Dr. Clark mentioned. “In my guide, I deal with anxiousness as an emotion. I break it down into its core components and have a look at its varied options.”

That is What Anxiousness Seems to be Like will help you: