Dr. Burns is the author of Feeling Good, The Feeling Good Handbook, and When Panic Attacks, which are available at bookstores and can be purchased online. You can learn more about his work by visiting his website at www.feelinggood.com.For a full list of references click here.

When it comes to medication management, practitioners often treat anxiety disorders as though they are all the same. However, there are specific clinical pearls that you should be aware of to adequately treat your clients with panic disorder.This review will provide you with a quick overview of panic disorder treatment...

When a person perceives there is danger, a fight-or-flight response sets into motion many physiological changes that prepare him or her to address the danger. Heart rate and breathing speed up, blood pressure rises; the person is energized and, hopefully, ready to meet the challenge.Just as it helped the caveman...

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Empowerment can best be described as a client’s ability to be actively involved in his or her care. Empowered clients see—and believe— themselves to be capable of making decisions about their treatment, and are confident that their decisions will help them effectively manage their mental illnesses (Alegria M et al,...

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Therapy needs to be tailored to the issues, the patient, and the risk factors in her environment. This is especially true in domestic violence, where our urge to spirit a battered woman away from her partner may feel like a good idea to us, but not reflect a client’s best...