Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Panic Map-3, Client Workbook for Anxiety and Panic

Map-III is a systematic cognitive-behavioral program, which usesbehavioral self-monitoring to increase awareness of circumstances that triggerpanic symptoms. Clients learn specific intervention skills, including how toslow down physiological reactivity through breathing retraining and musclerelaxing training; how to de-catastrophise through actual prediction testing;and how to lessen fearfulness through exposure to feared sensations in safesettings.Instead of relying on avoidance, superstitious objects, alcohol, or otherunhelpful methods, clients will learn helpful ways of coping with panic andanxiety through cognitive-behavioral therapy.Unlike traditional psychotherapies, the MAP-3 program does not emphasize aperson's childhood memories and experiences, unless they are directly related tothe person's panic attacks (e.g., witnessing someone die of a heart attack mighthave led a person to fear that he or she will also die of a heart attack.)Instead, cognitive-behavioral therapy emphasizes factors that currentlycontribute to the person's panic disorder and agoraphobia and ways ofcontrolling the symptoms of panic and agoraphobia. This method has proven to behighly effective. Through this program, clients learn to control their panicattacks and anxiety about panic. They will also learn some ways for controllingagoraphobic avoidance.The workbook is divided into 14 lessons, each in a separate chapter. Eachlesson covers specific skills. The skills build on each other, so for each newlesson, clients will use the skills they have learned previously. Although theworkbook is obviously structured, the program allows for individualtailoring.Barlow, David H. is the author of 'Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Panic Map-3, Client Workbook for Anxiety and Panic' with ISBN 9780195186970 and ISBN 0195186974.