Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry (Second Edition): Therapist Guide

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is extremely common, with the lifetime prevalence measured in a recent survey ranging from 4.1% to 7.7% (Kessler et al, 2005). GAD is characterized by excessive worry, which has the quality of being uncontrollable. People with GAD tend to worry about minor everyday events, or major life circumstances (e.g. job, family, finances), and the focus of the worry may shift repeatedly. The worry is typically associated with physical symptoms of tension, such as restlessness, fatigue and sleep disturbance. Mastery Of Your Anxiety And Worry is a comprehensive program to assist clinicians in delivering effective CBT for GAD and worry. The program includes two books:

• Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Therapist Guide details the step-by-step cognitive behavioral treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.
• Mastery of Your Anxiety And Worry: Workbook is the companion to this therapist guide. It will help your patients to become active participants in their

Each Treatments That Work® title is published as part of a pair:

• Clients use the Workbooks which contain elements of psychoeducation, skills development, self-assessment quizzes, homework exercises, and record forms.
• Therapists use the Therapist Guides which contain step-by-step instructions for teaching clients skills and overcoming common difficulties.

The authors suggest that the most effective implementation of these exercises requires an understanding of the principles underlying the different procedures, and that mental health professionals should be familiar with both the Mastery of Your Anxiety And Worry: Workbook, as well as this therapist guide. 

Therapists with an active subscription to a Psychology Tools ‘Complete’ plan are licensed to use Treatments That Work® titles, and to download and share chapters with their clients.

• Kessler, R. C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., Jin, R., Merikangas, K. R., & Walters, E. E. (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of general psychiatry, 62(6), 593-602.
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2020). Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder in adults: management[CG113]. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg113
• Zinbarg, R. E., Lee, J. E., & Yoon, K. L. (2007). Dyadic predictors of outcome in a cognitive-behavioral program for patients with generalized anxiety disorder in committed relationships: A “spoonful of sugar” and a dose of non-hostile criticism may help. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45(4), 699-713.