Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man: Coping with Hidden Aggression – From the Bedroom to the Boardroom

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Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man: Coping with Hidden Aggression - From the Bedroom to the Boardroom

DO YOU KNOW ONE OF THESE MEN?

The catch-me-if-you-can lover…

Phil’s romantic and passionate one minute, distant and cold the next.

The deviously manipulative coworker or boss…

Jack denies resenting Nora’s rapid rise in the company, but when they’re assigned to work together on a project, he undermines her.

The obstructionist, procrastinating husband…

Bob keeps telling his wife he’ll finish the painting job he began years ago, but he never seems to get around to it.

These are all classic examples of the passive-aggressive man. This personality syndrome — in which hostility wears a mask of passivity — is currently the number one source of men’s problems in relationships and on the job. In Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man, Scott Wetzler draws upon numerous case histories from his own practice to explain how and why the passive-aggressive man thinks, feels, and acts the way he does. Dr. Wetzler also offers advice on:

• How to avoid playing victim, manager, or rescuer to the “P-A”

• How to get his anger and fear into the open

• How to help the “P-A” become a better lover, husband, and father

• How to survive passive-aggressive game playing on the job

Living with a man’s passive aggression can be an emotional seesaw ride. But armed with this book, you can avoid the bumpy landings.

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Day Treatment for Children with Emotional Disorders

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Day Treatment for Children with Emotional Disorders

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Perception of control over anxiety mediates the relation between catastrophic thinking and social anxiety in social phobia [An article from: Behaviour Research and Therapy]

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Perception of control over anxiety mediates the relation between catastrophic thinking and social anxiety in social phobia [An article from: Behaviour Research and Therapy]
This digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Cognitive models of social phobia (social anxiety disorder) assume that individuals with social phobia experience anxiety in social situations in part because they overestimate the social cost associated with a potentially negative outcome of a social interaction. Some emotion theorists, on the other hand, point to the perception of control over anxiety-related symptoms as a determinant of social anxiety. In order to examine the relationship between perceived emotional control (PEC), estimated social cost (ESC), and subjective anxiety, we compared three alternative structural equation models: Model 1 assumes that PEC and ESC independently predict social anxiety; Model 2 assumes that ESC partially mediates the relationship between PEC and anxiety, and Model 3 assumes that PEC partially mediates the relationship between ESC and anxiety. We recruited 144 participants with social phobia and administered self-report measures of estimated social cost, perceived anxiety control, and social anxiety. The results support Model 3 and suggest that ”costly” social situations are anxiety provoking in part because social phobic individuals perceive their anxiety symptoms as being out of control.

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Day Treatment for Children with Emotional Disorders, Vol. 2: Models Across the Country

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Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents with PTSD Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences, Therapist Guide (Programs That Work)

Posted by admin on February 6, 2012 Comments Off

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents with PTSD Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences, Therapist Guide (Programs That Work)
This program is specifically intended for adolescents suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Clients are exposed to safe but anxiety-provoking situations as a way of overcoming their trauma-related fears. Recounting the memory of the trauma also helps clients emotionally process their traumatic experiences in order to diminish PTSD symptoms. The workbook is designed for adolescent use and includes teen-friendly forms to reinforce the skills learned in therapy.

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Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life

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Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life

Meeting a key need, this book presents a modular adult psychotherapy approach grounded in extensive clinical experience and research. Provided is a flexible, empirically supported framework for helping clients manage symptoms related to past physical or sexual abuse; build emotion regulation and interpersonal skills; and process traumatic memories and their associated feelings of fear, shame, and loss. Session-by-session guidelines include many suggestions for tailoring interventions to each person’s needs in the context of a safe, supportive therapeutic environment. Designed in a large, easy-to-use format, the book includes over a dozen reproducible handouts, worksheets, and other tools for clinicians and clients.

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The effect of emotional context on cognitive inhibition and attentional processing in dissociative identity disorder [An article from: Behaviour Research and Therapy]

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The effect of emotional context on cognitive inhibition and attentional processing in dissociative identity disorder [An article from: Behaviour Research and Therapy]
This digital document is a journal article from Behaviour Research and Therapy, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In light of previous research, the current study tested the hypothesis that dissociative identity disorder (DID) would be characterised by effective cognitive inhibitory functioning when tested in a neutral context, but weakened inhibition when tested in an emotionally negative context. Using a negative priming task (i.e. the flanker task) to assess inhibitory ability 11 DID, 11 depressed, and 11 general population participants were tested in the two differing experimental contexts. The contexts were manipulated by instructions and word stimuli, and following the completion of this task participants completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale and the Schizotypal Personality Scale. DID participants displayed a greater degree of self-reported anxiety in the negative context and as expected displayed a reduction in inhibition in this context but not in the neutral context. The degree of negative priming for the depressed and general population samples remained stable across contexts as did their anxiety levels. The DID sample displayed slower response times to negative compared to neutral words but this attentional bias was not evident for the two comparison groups. The relationship between increased arousal, inhibitory functioning, dissociation and information processing in DID is discussed.

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Emotional exposure in the treatment of substance use disorders: Conceptual model, evidence, and future directions [An article from: Clinical Psychology Review]

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Emotional exposure in the treatment of substance use disorders: Conceptual model, evidence, and future directions [An article from: Clinical Psychology Review]
This digital document is a journal article from Clinical Psychology Review, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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In this article, we review research on the nature and treatment of panic disorder, and apply these findings to a discussion of the role of internal cue exposure in the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs). Two features of panic treatment were used as a model for interventions for SUDs: exposure to internal (interoceptive) cues rather than reliance on external (environmental) exposure alone, and use of cue exposure to try to inoculate individuals against future maladaptive patterns. Specifically, we emphasized the role of exposure to internal, largely emotional cues, as a way to enhance resilience to cues for relapse in individuals with SUDs. Hypothesized moderators and mediators of this treatment approach were discussed, as were similarities between this research agenda and an increasing focus on the role of emotional acceptance/tolerance in cognitive-behavioral treatments.

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Pathological Anxiety: Emotional Processing in Etiology and Treatment

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Pathological Anxiety: Emotional Processing in Etiology and Treatment

Bringing together prominent researchers and practitioners, this authoritative volume describes significant recent advances in understanding and treating anxiety that are grounded in emotional processing theory and the seminal work of Edna Foa. Current etiological perspectives are explained; effective assessment approaches discussed; and important findings presented on the benefits of cognitive-behavioral therapies, pharmacotherapy, and combined treatments. Coverage encompasses the full range of frequently encountered disorders: posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive/n-/compulsive disorder in children and adults, panic, generalized anxiety, social phobia, and complicated grief. Special topics include the introduction of a new treatment, virtual reality exposure therapy.

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Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences Therapist Guide (Treatments That Work)

Posted by admin on December 11, 2011 Comments Off

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences Therapist Guide (Treatments That Work)

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