Daniel Zwillenberg

Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Your Questions Answered

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Produktbeschreibung

A new title in the Q&A Health Guides series, this book tackles readers' questions regarding anxiety and panic attacks, dispelling misconceptions and examining real-world scenarios that highlight important concepts and controversies. How is social anxiety different from shyness or introversion? Are anxiety disorders only a problem in the Western, industrialized world, and if not, are they expressed differently in other cultures? Why do some people suffer from panic attacks while others do not? What kinds of therapy and medication are available for anxiety? What happens in therapy? How can well-meaning family and friends help a person with an anxiety disorder rather than make things worse? Anxiety and Panic Attacks: Your Questions Answered addresses all of these topics and much more, presenting information in a question-and-answer format that makes finding the desired information easy. The book begins with a "Guide to Health Literacy" section that explains what health literacy is and provides readers with tools to improve their health literacy, and then examines five myths and misconceptions about anxiety and supplies five case studies that provide real-world context and reinforce the concepts discussed in the book. All of the Greenwood Q&A Health Guides series books are specifically designed to provide readers with authoritative yet accessible answers to their questions in a concise, targeted resource that they can trust to be medically accurate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781440852985
• ISBN-10: 1440852987
• Artikelnr.: 49396253

Autorenporträt

Daniel Zwillenberg, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital's 3East adolescent DBT program and is an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Guide to Health Literacy
Common Myths and Misconceptions about Anxiety and Panic Attacks Questions
and Answers General Information 1. What is anxiety? 2. What purpose do fear
and anxiety serve? 3. How is the experience of fear "made" by the brain? 4.
How do fear and anxiety affect our physiology, subjective experience, and
behavior? 5. How do fear and anxiety impact perception and cognition? 6.
What is a panic attack? 7. What are the different kinds of anxiety
disorders? 8. Are there other mental disorders that have anxiety as a key
characteristic? 9. How common are anxiety disorders? Who tends to get them?
10. Why are women more likely than men to be diagnosed with an anxiety
disorder? Causes and Risk Factors 11. Why do some people develop anxiety
disorders? 12. How does parenting affect anxiety? 13. Can anxiety be
inherited? 14. How do people develop irrational fears of spiders, dogs,
heights, and so on? Signs, Symptoms, and Diagnosis 15. When does normal
anxiety become a disorder? 16. How are anxiety disorders diagnosed? 17. How
does anxiety cause people to "choke" under pressure? 18. How is anxiety
related to depression? 19. Are there other conditions that can be confused
with anxiety disorders? 20. Is homophobia an anxiety disorder? 21. Is it
possible to die from a panic attack? Treatment 22. How are anxiety
disorders treated? 23. What is psychotherapy? 24. What is
cognitive-behavioral therapy, and how is it applied to anxiety? 25. What
kinds of medications are used? How do they work? 26. Are there treatments
other than medication and psychotherapy? 27. Is it best for people to avoid
the things that make them anxious? 28. What do mental health professionals
recommend people to do during a panic attack? History and Culture 29. How
have the concepts of anxiety and anxiety disorders evolved over time? 30.
How does culture impact anxiety? Case Studies Directory of Resources
Glossary Bibliography Index About the Author