Resources: Articles and Books on Anxiety Disorder Therapies

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Forsyth, J.P., & Eifert, G.H. (2008). The mindfulness and acceptance workbook for anxiety. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications.

Hayes, S.C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.). (2001). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York: Plenum Press.

Hayes, S.C., & Smith, S. (2005). Get out of your mind and into your life. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications.

Twohig, M., & Hayes, S. C., & Masuda, A. (2006). Increasing willingness to experience obsessions: Acceptance and commitment therapy as a treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder. Behavior Therapy, 37, 3-13.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Becker, C.B., & Zayfert, C. (2001). Integrating DBT based techniques and concepts to facilitate exposure treatment for PTSD. Cognitive and Behavioural Practice, 8, 107-122.

Linehan, M. (1993). Cognitive behavioral treatment of borderline personality disorder. New York: Guilford Press.

Family Therapy

Grunes, M.S., Neziroglu, F., & McKay, D., (2001). Family involvement in the behavioral treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: A preliminary investigation. Behavior Therapy, 32, 803-820.

Stekette, G., & Van Noppen, B. Family approaches to treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder. Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria, 25, 43-50.

Yaryura-Tobias, J. A., Grunes, M.S., Walz, J., & Neziroglu, F. (2000). Parental obsessive-compulsive disorder as a prognostic factor in a year long fluvoxamine treatment in childhood and adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 15(3), 163-168.

Group Therapy

Heimberg, R. G., Dodge, C. S., Hope, D. A., Kennedy, C. R., Zollo, L., & Becker, R. E. (1990). Cognitive-behavioral group treatment of social phobia: Comparison to a credible placebo control. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 14, 1-23.

Oei, T. P. S., & Boschen, M. J. (2009). Clinical effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral group treatment program for anxiety disorders: A benchmarking study. Journal of anxiety disorders, 23, 950-957.

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