Description: Written for therapists who treat clients with a variety of specific phobias, including animal phobias, natural environment phobias, situational phobias, blood, injection, injury phobias, and other phobias. Therapists are also taught evidence-based strategies for helping clients to overcome phobias including exposure-based and cognitive techniques for reducing fear. When used in conjunction with Mastery of Your Fears and Phobias, Second Edition, Workbook, therapists can help clients become active participants as they explore the nature of specific phobias including definitions, prevalence, and causes of phobias.
Review Quotes: "This is an excellent pair of books in what I imagine, given Barlow's expertise, experience, and track record, will be a very good series. The pairing of a therapist guide and companion workbook sets the series apart from previous texts that have provided either practitioner guidebooks or self-help manuals."--PsycCRITIQUES
"The Therapist Guide is a good, well-written accompaniment to the wrokbook, providing the therapist with the latest research and treatment rationale to help develop effective treatment plans for individuals wishing to overcome their specific phobias."--CBT Today"The book covers a wide spectrum of fears and phobias, and are grouped in a way that reflects the heterogeneity among specific phobias... Both the Therapist Guide and the accompanying Client Workbook are user-friendly in terms of layout and comprehensibility of content. Time is taken to introduce the evidence-base for the efficacy of cognitive behaviour techniques in the treatment of fears and phobias; this supplies the therapist with knowledge and confidence in this form of treatment."--Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London