Brain-Based Therapy With Adults: Evidence-Based Treatment For Everyday Practice

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.

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.

“These authors in this new volume see the value in integrating the biological and psychological in a more seamless way, to both inform and drive the integrated approach further.” (Metapsychology, May 2009)

Acknowledgments.
Preface.
About This Book.
1 How We Change.
2 Neuroscience: The Fantastic Voyage.
3 Psychotherapy and the Pax Medica.
4 The Therapeutic Relationship.
5 Working with Memory and Emotion.
6 Dysregulations.
7 Brain-Based Therapy for Anxiety Disorders.
8 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
9 Obsessive-Compulsive Reactions.
10 Depression: The Dark amid the Blaze.
11 Exercise, Sleep, and Mindfulness.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.