Exposure Treatments for Anxiety Disorders: A Practitioner's Guide to Concepts, Methods, and Evidence-Based Practice

In the United States and around the world, anxiety remains the single most prevalent presenting complaint to all levels of mental healthcare, and its treatment represents a disproportionately large utilization of health resources and clinical time. Cognitive-behavioral therapies are empirically supported and among the most commonly used approaches to the treatment of a range of anxiety disorders, and exposure-based techniques are arguably among the most potent of the numerous CBT options available. Yet, few practitioners have the commensurate knowledge, training, expertise, or even comfort necessary to properly employ these powerful methods where they can effect real and meaningful change in their patients.

Johan Rosqvist, Psy.D., is Assistant Professor, School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University and Co-Director and Founder of the CBT Solutions for Anxiety Clinic at Pacific University