Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCING CBT FOR GENERAL ANXIETY DISORDER (GAD)
Introducing Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Key Psychological Processes in GAD
PART TWO: CBT FOR GAD IN PRACTICE
The Assessment and Initial Formulation of GAD
Key Interventions 1: Worry Awareness Training
Key Interventions 2: Recognising and Overcoming Intolerance of Uncertainty
Key Interventions 3: Recognising and Overcoming Positive Beliefs about Worry
Overcoming Worry 1: Real Event Worry
Overcoming Worry 2: Hypothetical Event Worry
Relapse Prevention
GAD and Low-Intensity Approaches
Co-Morbidity
Complicating Factors

Reviews

′Several evidence-based CBT programmes for GAD have been developed. This book provides an outstanding guide to one of the best validated approaches, based on the Laval model, and is likely to be of interest to any clinician treating GAD, including those working in IAPT services.′
David M. Clark, Professor of Psychology
Kings College London, UK