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Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 1:29-41 (2001)
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Time-Limited Psychosocial Treatment for Specific Panic Disorders and Agoraphobia

   Gordon MacNeil, PhD

The School of Social Work at The University of Alabama

Contact author: Gordon MacNeil, PhD, School of Social Work, The University of Alabama, Box 870314, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0314. E-mail: gmacneil{at}sw.ua.edu.

Although panic disorders and agoraphobia are widespread in the general population, almost half of those afflicted with these problems do not receive treatment for them. Additionally, there is no singular most effective and appropriate treatment for panic disorders and agoraphobia, the use of psychotropic medications having met with mixed success. This article reviews pertinent literature on this topic and presents an empirically based, nonpharmacological brief treatment model that has been shown to be effective in treating these disorders. A case study illustrates this model.

KEY WORDS: panic disorder, agoraphobia, brief treatment






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