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This pocket guide is designed to help the primary care practitioner recognize, diagnose, and manage anxiety disorders in a busy clinical practice. It presents an easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach, and offers practical points based on both real patient-care experience and review of current medical literature. The guide includes helpful chapters on psychopharmacology, psychopharmacotherapy, and psychologic treatment for the anxiety disorders. ANXIETY DISORDERS A POCKET GUIDE for PRIMARY CARE Contents Contributing Authors ……………………………………………………………………. Preface…………………………………………………………………………………….. Foreword………………………………………………………………………………….. David M. Morgan, MD Acknowledgments………………………………………………………………………… Chapters 1 Overview of Anxiety and the Anxiety Disorders…………………………………… John R. Vanin 2 Brief Psychiatric History and Mental Status Examination……………………….. John R. Vanin 3 Psychopharmacology………………………………………………………………… John R. Vanin 4 Psychopharmacotherapy……………………………………………………………. John R. Vanin 5 Psychotherapy………………………………………………………………………… Kevin T. Larkin 6 Adjustment Disorder with Anxiety…………………………………………………. John R. Vanin 7 Panic Disorder………………………………… James D. Helsley 8 Specific Phobia………………………………………………………………………. John R. Vanin 9 Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder)…………………………………………… James D. Helsley 10 Obsessive-CompulsiveDisorder…………………………………………………… James D. Helsley 11 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder…………………………………………………….. James D. Helsley 12 Generalized Anxiety Disorder………………………………………chr(1
