Includes bibliographical references and index

Anxiety and related disorders: an introduction / Rebecca Cox and Bunmi O. Olatunji -- Part I. Basic mechanisms in fear and anxiety -- Learning mechanisms in fear and anxiety: it is still now what you thought it was / Sara Scheveneels, Yannick Boddez and Dirk Hermans -- Attentional bias and the anxiety disorders / Ernst H.W. Koster and Anouk Vanden Bogaerde -- Perceptual mechanisms of anxiety and its disorders / Wen Li -- Part II. Transdiagnostic Processes -- Neuroticism/negative affectivity / David Watson -- Anxiety sensitivity / Norman B. Schmidt, Nicole Short, Ian Stanley, Nicholas Allan and Brian Albanese -- Disgust proneness Kelly A. Knowles and Bunmi O. Olatunji -- Intolerance of uncertainty / Peter M. McEvoy, R. Nicholas Carleton, Kelly Correa, Stewart A. Shankman and Sarah Shihata -- Distress tolerance / Lance M. Rappaport, Erin C. Berenz, Carl Lejuez and Roxann Roberson-Nay -- Experiential avoidance / Fallon R. Goodman, Maria A. Larrazabal, John T. West and Todd B. Kashdan -- Emotion regulation / Katya C. Fernandez, Amanda S. Morrison and James J. Gross -- Part III. Assessment, diagnosis, and cultural manifestations of anxiety and related disorders -- Anxiety disorders / Anthony J. Rosellini, Esther S. Tung and Timothy A. Brown -- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders Andrew M. Kiselica and Eric A. Storch -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders / Daniel J. Lee, Sarah E. Kleiman and Frank W. Weathers -- Cultural considerations in the anxiety and related disorders / Devon Hinton and Eric Bui -- Part IV. Etiology and phenomenology of specific anxiety disorders -- Specific phobia / Peter J. Castagna, Marie Nebel-Schwalm, Thompson E. Davis, III and Peter Muris -- Panic disorder and agoraphobia / Bethany A. Teachman, Miranda L. Beltzer and Alexandra J. Werntz -- Social anxiety disorder / Arielle Horenstein, Rachel M. Butler and Richard G. Heimberg -- Generalized anxiety disorder / Ki Eun Shin, Lucas S. LaFreniere and Michelle G. Newman -- Separation anxiety disorder / Andrew R. Eisen and Kristin L. Toffey -- Selective mutism / Christopher A. Kearney, Andrew Gerthoffer, Amanda Howard and Rachele Diliberto -- Part V. Etiology and Phenomenology of Specific OCD Spectrum Disorders -- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders / Lillian Reuman and Jonathan S. Abramowitz -- Body dysmorphic disorder / Emma Baldock and David Veale -- Hoarding disorder / Kristin S. Springer, Blaise L. Worden and David F. Tolin -- Body-focused repetitive behavioral disorders / Dan J. Stein and Christine Lochner -- Etiology and Phenomenology of Specific Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders -- Acute stress disorder Joshua C. Morganstein, Suzanne Yang, Gary H. Wynn, Dvaid M. Benedek and Robert J. Ursano -- Posttraumatic stress disorder / Katherine Buchholz, Zoe Feingold and Tara E. Galovski -- Reactive attachment disorder / Kimberly Renk -- Treatment and Prevention of Anxiety and Related Disorders -- Anxiety disorders / Joseph K. Carpenter, Kristina Conroy and Stefan G. Hofmann -- OCD spectrum disorders / Martin E. Franklin, Simone Budzyn and Holly Freeman -- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders / Andrew M. Sherrill and Sheila A.M. Rauch

This handbook surveys existing descriptive and experimental approaches to the study of anxiety and related disorders, emphasizing the provision of empirically-guided suggestions for treatment. Based upon the findings from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the chapters collected here highlight contemporary approaches to the classification, presentation, etiology, assessment, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders. The collection also considers a biologically-informed framework for the understanding of mental disorders proposed by the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC). The RDoC has begun to create a new kind of taxonomy for mental disorders by bringing the power of modern research approaches in genetics, neuroscience, and behavioral science to the problem of mental illness. The framework is a key focus for this book as an authoritative reference for researchers and clinicians