Anxiety Disorder Handbook: Third Edition
A Self-Help Approach to Treating Anxiety and Panic

By Jeffrey A. Roosa

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 17, 2007
• ISBN: 9781469119991

Jeffrey A. Roosa

Jeffrey A. Roosa, LCSW-R started Roosa Counseling Services on 7/1/98. He has been in the field since 1990, with experience as a Probation Officer Investigator, Parent-Child Mediator, Community Dispute Mediator, Special Education Mediator, and as a therapist. He has written the Anxiety Disorder Handbook, The ADHD Kid, Play Therapy by Jeffrey Roosa, and has contributed to numerous articles for the Times Herald Record. He has been a Graduate School Field Instructor for Marywood University School of Social Work for the past several years, for Marist College since 2005, for Columbia University, Long Island University, Fordham University, and many others, educating students in the field in Play Therapy and Anxiety Disorder Treatment Technique.

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Anxiety Disorder

Handbook

Third Edition

A self-help approach

to treating anxiety and panic

Jeffrey A. Roosa, LCSW-R

Copyright © 2007 by Jeffrey A. Roosa, LCSW-R.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007907776

ISBN:                 Hardcover                978-1-4257-9354-8

ISBN:                Softcover                   978-1-4257-9341-8

ISBN:                Ebook                        978-1-4691-1999-1

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

To order additional copies of this book, contact:

Jeffrey A. Roosa, LCSWR

P.O. Box 758

Middletown, NY 10940

39684

Contents

FEAR

PANIC ATTACKS

You Are Not Alone

Case # 1

Illogical Thoughts

Buried Feelings

Overcontrol

Flood of Thoughts

Permission to Rest

Focusing

Focusing Technique

Case # 2

Comfort Zone

Guided Imagery

Client Empowerment in the Therapy

Blaming and Displacement

Commitment

Choosing a Therapist

Cognitive Restructuring

Change in Perspective

The Temporal Component

The

Anxiety Disorder Handbook

was developed through work with sufferers of

Panic Disorder

Agoraphobia

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Social Anxiety Disorder

Phobias

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

ADHD and ADD

Eating Disorders

Bipolar Disorder

Separation Anxiety Disorder

Asperger Syndrome

and more

This handbook was made possible

through the loving support of my

wife Lynn,

and by the

love of my children.

When I dedicated my practice in the field to anxiety disorders in 1998, I did so because I saw many people suffering without any clear-cut approach for treatment. The self-help options at the time seemed more like reading the tabloids, without any significant solutions; and the medical community had their cure, antidepressants, which themselves had awful side effects that reportedly stripped away more of the user’s dignity if you got those (the side effects).

My goal was clear, to set out in search of things that actually worked for people with anxiety and panic. Here is what I found:

Panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and the phobias are significant forces in the lives of those people who suffer from these conditions. Anxiety disorders