Exposure Therapy

Introduction.- The ethics of exposure thereapy.- Dissemination of Exposure Therapy in Clinical practice: How to handle barriers?.- The role of extinction therapy.- The neural substrates of fear extinction.- Cognitive enhancers in exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders.- Exposure therapy for anxiety disorders in children.- Aspects of exposure therapy in acceptance and commitment therapy.- Exposure aspects of the Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise (IDE) and The Situational Analysis (SA) in Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP).- Emotion-focused techniques in Schema Therapy and the place of exposure techniques.- Interoceptive exposire.- The role of anxiety control strategies in imaginal exposure.- Variants of exposure in body dysmorphic disorder and hypochondriasis.- Prolonged imaginal exposure based on worry scenarios.- How much therapist is needed? New findings in exposure treatment of panic disorder with agoraphobia.- Exposure therapy for anxiety disorders-Is there room for cognitive interventions?.- Safety first? Trauma exposure in PTSD.- Is there room for safety behaviors in exposure therapy for anxiety disorders.- Exposure therapy in OCD: Is there a need for adding cognitive elements?.

Prof. Wittchen, Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie, Klinische Psychologie und Epidemiologie, München; und TU Dresden, Lehrstuhl für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie: Einer der bekanntesten und einflussreichsten Klinischen Psychologen, veröffentlicht u.a. die deutschen Versionen des Diagnostischen und Statistischen Manuals psychischer Störungen (DSM-IV).