Brain-Based Therapy with Adults: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice » (New Edition)

John B. Arden, PhD, is the Director of Training for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers for the Northern California Region. In his capacity, he oversees the internships and postdoctoral psychology residencies in twenty-two medical centers. He is the author of nine other books.

Lloyd Linford, PhD, serves as Chairman of Psychiatry and Chemical Dependency Best Practices for Kaiser Permanente's Northern California healthcare system, is a clinical psychologist at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, and is in private practice in Oakland, California.

Brain-Based Therapy with Adults: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice provides a straightforward, integrated approach that looks at what we currently know about the brain and how it impacts and informs treatment interventions. Authors John Arden and Lloyd Linford, experts in neuroscience and evidence-based practice, reveal how this new kind of therapy takes into account the uniqueness of each client. Presentation of detailed background and evidence-based?interventions for common adult disorders such as anxiety and depression offers you expert advice you can put into practice immediately.

1 How We Change 1

2 Neuroscience: The Fantastic Voyage 18

3 Psychotherapy and the Pax Medica 49

4 The Therapeutic Relationship 69

5 Working with Memory and Emotion 95

6 Dysregulations 120

7 Brain-Based Therapy for Anxiety Disorders 139

8 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 166

9 Obsessive-Compulsive Reactions 184

10 Depression: The Dark amid the Blaze 202

11 Exercise, Sleep, and Mindfulness 233

References 253

Author Index 297

Subject Index 300