The Clinician's Guide to Treating Health Anxiety: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Effective Treatment provides mental health professionals with methods to better identify patients with health anxiety, the basic skills to manage it, and ways to successfully adapt cognitive behavioral therapy to treat it. The book features structured diagnostic instruments that can be used for assessment, while also underscoring the importance of conducting a comprehensive functional analysis of the patient's problems. Sections cover refinements in assessment and treatment methods and synthesize existing literature on etiology and maintenance mechanisms. Users will find an in-depth look at who develops health anxiety, what the behavioral and cognitive mechanisms that contribute to it are, why it persists in patients, and how it can be treated.

About the Author
His research group focuses on the treatment and assessment of anxiety, with a focus on health anxiety. The group also does work on internet-delivered exposure-based treatment for health anxiety. Author or co-author of over 50 journal articles and 6 book chapters. Winner of the 2014 prize for young researchers in psychology awarded by the National Committee of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Has developed a novel treatment for health anxiety with established efficacy, and is the Section Editor for the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Reviewer for British Journal of Psychiatry, the Lancet, PLos ONE, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, and others.


Book Information
ISBN 9780128118061
Author Erik Hedman-Lagerloef
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint Academic Press Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 290g