Anxiety in Clinical Practice
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 26. October 1988
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-0-471-92055-7 (ISBN)
Description
The recognition and management of anxiety, and its relationship to other disorders, is a subject of growing importance in clinical practice. When added to clinical disease, anxiety can increase the handicap, complicate the presentation and retard healing. It can also cause behavioural problems which lead not only to physical damage but which also result in failure of social and personal relationships. Traditionally, doctors have responded to patients' anxiety by prescribing sedative drugs which, whilst having certain uses, do not provide a solution to anxiety. This book gives information on current developments in the theory and management of anxiety with an emphasis on the principles of psychotherapeutic management, including new self-help techniques which do not require professional input. The authors maintain that it is these techniques which must now be more fully developed and applied if the problem of morbid anxiety is to be solved on a wide scale. The text is essentially practical in approach.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
17 line figures, 6 tables
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92055-7 (9780471920557)
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Content
introduction - why worry?; anxiety in historical perspective - 'that internal restlessness'; the biological basis of anxiety; the psychopathology of anxiety; psychological and social aspects of anxiety - causes and effects; assessment for treatment; the management of anxiety; appendix - addresses of self-help groups in the united kingdom.