Dr. David A. Clark | This is What Anxiety Looks Like (2024, New Harbinger)

This is What Anxiety Looks Like (2024, New Harbinger)

This concise self-help book on anxiety is written for individuals who are not drawn to workbooks.  It consists of 13 chapters that break down anxiety into its core elements like anticipatory anxiety, catastrophizing, avoidance, postevent processing, neutralization, and the like.  The chapers are short (5-7 pages) and focus on a specific element of anxiety.  Each chapter tells the story of an individual struggling with a specific feature of anxiety and it shows how that individual could use 3-4 specific cognitive-behavioral strategies to overcome the process contributing to their anxiety.  In this book individuals learn new ways to overcome their anxiety through their demonstration in the lives of the case example.

    Dr. David A. Clark | The Anxiety and Worry Workbook, 2nd Edition (Clark & Beck, 2023, Guilford Press)

    The Anxiety and Worry Workbook, 2nd Edition (Clark & Beck, 2023, Guilford Press)

    The 10 chapters of this second edition of The Anxiety and Worry Workbook by David A. Clark and Aaron T. Beck were completely rewritten from the first edition, with updated material on cognitive-behavioral treatment  (CBT) of generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, and worry.  New chapters on healthy anxiety and anxiety sensitivity were added, as well as exercies on recovery-oriented exposure and the expectancy violation effect based on inhibited learning theory.  The workbook takes a more transdiagnostic approach to understanding anxiety and its treatment, with instruction and worksheets on how to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy forms of anxiety.  It also incorporates ideas from a newer form of CBT known as recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R).  This workbook draws heavily on the knowledge and wisdom of Dr. Beck who passed away in the latter months of writing this revision.  No doubt this workbook is one of Dr. Beck's final contributions on the treatment of anxiety.

      Dr. David A. Clark | Q & A webinar on Process-Oriented CBT, ADAA January 21, 2025

      Q & A webinar on Process-Oriented CBT, ADAA January 21, 2025

      This free live webinar sponsored by the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) will feature a one hour question and answer period on process-oriented CBT for anxiety based on my book This is What Anxiety Looks Like.  For more information see the ADAA website at: https://adaa.org/webinar/consumer/ask-author-q-what-anxiety-looks.

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        Dr. David A. Clark | Podcast on Process-Oriented CBT for Anxiety, New Harbinger, January 27, 2025

        Podcast on Process-Oriented CBT for Anxiety, New Harbinger, January 27, 2025

        This podcast will feature a one hour interview on the 12 core processes of anxiety and their treatment based on This is What Anxiety Looks Like.  For more information, stay tuned for upddates available at   https://www.newharbinger.com/pages/podcast/.

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          Dr. David A. Clark | Overcoming Paralyzing Doubt and Indecision (publication date Feb, 2026)

          Overcoming Paralyzing Doubt and Indecision (publication date Feb, 2026)

          This workbook delves into the problems of excessive and debilitating doubt. It begins by examining the absurdity of doubt, a cognitive process experienced by all and yet poorly understood by most.  A distinction is made between healthy and unhealthy doubt.  It is the unhealthy forms of doubt that often contribute to a host of personal problems like worry, obsessionality, depression, pathological guilt, self-loathing, and the like.  Unfortunately the role of doubt is often ignored in established forms of psychological treatment.  The first six chapters focus on the core characteristics of doubt like intolerance of uncertainty, indecisiveness, pursuit of conviction, perfectionism and risk aversion.  The next three chapters drill into three types of doubt; obsessive doubt, relationship doubt, and religious doubt.  The final three chapters provide step-by-step instruction in using cognitive-behavioral interventions to correct erroneous doubt, boost tolerance of uncertainty, and use critical thinking skills to act more decisively.  Exercises, worksheets, and other resource materials are provided in each chapter.  The workbook will be published by New Harbinger Publications with a Februrary 1, 2026 release date.

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