Acceptance- and Mindfulness-Based Approaches to Anxiety: Conceptualization and Treatment(Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders)

For many years, cognitive-behavioral techniques have been at the forefront of treatment for anxiety disorders. More recently, strategies rooted in Eastern concepts of acceptance and mindfulness have have demonstrated some promise in treating anxiety, especially in tandem with CBT. Now, with Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies for Anxiety, thirty expert clinicians and researchers present a comprehensive guide to integrating these powerful complementary approaches--where they match, when they differ, and why they work so well together. Chapter authors clearly place mindfulness and acceptance into the clinical lexicon, establishing links with established traditions, including emotion theory and experiential therapy. In addition, separate chapters discuss specific anxiety disorders, the current state of treatment for each, and practical ways of integrating acceptance and mindfulness approaches into therapy.

Table of Contents:
Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness and Existing Psychological Traditions.- Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies for Anxiety.- Emotion and the Acceptance-Based Approaches to the Anxiety Disorders.- General Approaches to Assessment and Treatment.- Assessing Mindfulness and Experiential Acceptance.- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Anxiety Disorders.- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.- Applying DBT Mindfulness Skills to the Treatment of Clients with Anxiety Disorders.- Specific Populations.- Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness with Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Panic Disorder.- An Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Perspective on Social Anxiety Disorder.- An Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder.- Acceptance and Mindfulness-Based Approaches to the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- Integrating Acceptance and Mindfulness into Treatments for Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders.- Future Directions.- Exploring Basic Processes Underlying Acceptance and Mindfulness.

Review :
Orsillo and Roemer are true scientist-practitioners with their broad and deep knowledge of cognitive behavioral concepts and their years of applying these concepts to relieve suffering from anxiety.  In this book they take us to the cutting-edge of new psychological approaches to anxiety disorders. Every clinician will want to be aware of these latest advances. David H. Barlow, Ph.D. Director, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University Professor of Psychology Research Professor of Psychiatry Few others could make the case for acceptance and mindfulness-based care of anxiety disorders as well as Orsillo and Roemer have done. Tacking deftly between innovation and empirical science this book shows how traditional anxiety treatments, supplemented by acceptance and mindfulness practices, can achieve an expanded scope of relevance and efficacy. Their careful operationalization and description of these practices along with a few caveats regarding this nascent union, enables the reader to navigate comfortably in novel territory. Ideal for therapists, researchers and students the material presented in this book will likely form the backbone of the next generation of treatment for complex anxiety disorders. -Zindel V. Segal, Ph.D., C.Psych. Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology University of Toronto. In their innovative work toward a more complete understanding of the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders, and in their special concern for those patients who do not respond to existing treatments, Drs Roemer and Orsillo have led the field into new territory. In the past ten years, the integration of mindfulness-based approaches into existing psychological systems and therapies has been both informing and challenging for each side of the meeting. This timely book contains a useful summary of the many facets of this conversation, including the differing approaches to mindfulness and its use in clinical systems. It provides an excellent description of the development and progression of CBT approaches to the treatment of anxiety disorders and cogently presents the case for the natural progression of the integration of mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches into this field. James Carmody Ph.D. Director of Research, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Preventive & Behavioral Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School