After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

This paper provides a logical analysis of the avoidance of wishful thinking based on conflict resolutions between informational and motivational attitudes such as beliefs and desires. Several desiderata for conflict resolutions are introduced, discussed and tested in a rule-based logic. The results suggest that Reiter’s default logic is too strong, in the sense that a weaker notion of maximalit...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

Abstract I propose the notion of ‘epistemic sanity’, a property parsimony between holding true but not false beliefs and consideration our cognitive limitations. Where ‘alethic value’ is epistemic value beliefs, potential’ an agent amount extra alethic that she expected to achieve, given her current environment, reasoning skills. Epistemic sanity would be related (true or false) increase agent'...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...