General Information

The Comprehensive Panic Profile

The Authors

The Self-Help Tools

The Self-Change System incorporates an on-line panic profile plus several self-help books and related workbooks.

• your specific panic problem
• your approach to dealing with it
• your readiness for change

The Comprehensive Panic Profile may be taken multiple times to:

• Make an initial assessment of your panic problem
• Measure changes in your panic problem over time as you learn how to cope with your panic attacks
• Compare yourself to those who have also taken the CPP both before and after participating in a self-change program to cope with their panic symptoms.

Coping With Panic - a self-change book written by a leading international expert on anxiety who himself has suffered with panic attacks. The self-change program described in Coping With Panic has been empirically tested. Five separate research studies conducted at three universities in the United States and Canada have tested the Coping with Panic program and found it effective in helping panic sufferers. Click here to see a full description of these research studies.

The Coping With Panic Workbook, is an important complement to the book, Coping With Panic. It provides panic sufferers with step by step exercises for understanding panic, changing the basic mechanisms thought to contribute to the maintenance of panic and evaluating one's progress from working on these exercises. It is designed to be self-administered and may be utilized on one's own or while undergoing some other form of intervention. For each exercise in the workbook, the panic sufferer is directed to the complementary chapter in Coping With Panic, is given an explanation of why that exercise is important, and is then given an illustration of how to complete the exercise. The workbook is organized by week, with one assignment or task provided for each week

The Panic Monitoring Log provides the panic sufferer with an easy-to-use method for charting therapeutic progress. It is also intended to assist the clinician who is treating panic sufferers by providing him/her with a week-to-week picture of each client's progress. Intended as a therapeutic aid to the treatment approach provided in Coping With Panic and the Coping With Panic Workbook, the Panic Monitoring Log permits continuous recording of progress for eight weeks.Click here to review the research that supports the importance of using a self-monitoring tool like this.

The Relapse Prevention Manual for Panic fills an important gap in the long-term treatment and prevention of panic disorders. Based on the finding that panic disorder follows a chronic course with frequent relapses, the Relapse Prevention Manual for Panic was designed as a program for reducing vulnerability to relapse. It is designed to be self-administered or to be used in conjunction with follow-up supportive therapy or self-help groups. It teaches you why people who have panic attacks relapse and what you can do to ensure you do not suffer a relapse. Click here to review the research that supports the importance of using this tool.

George A. Clum, Ph.D.

Dr. Clum has a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from St. John's University. He is a diplomate in Clinical Psychology and a professor of Psychology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he has an active research program in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders. He also has a private practice where he actively engages in the treatment of individuals with a variety of anxiety disorders. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of suicide and anxiety disorders, areas in which he has numerous publications. Dr. Clum, himself a past sufferer of panic attacks, has developed and tested his book, Coping With Panic in several research studies. His book is based on his personal experience, his clinical work with anxiety-disordered individuals and his extensive research into the effectiveness of self-change techniques with problems of anxiety.

Gloria D. Eldridge, Ph.D.

Dr. Eldridge is a licensed clinical psychologist in Jackson, Mississippi and Acting Director of the Community Health Program at Jackson State University. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a specialty in Behavior Therapy at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1991. She interned at the University of Mississippi Medical Center/Jackson VA Medical Center Consortium where she completed additional training in treating victims of chemical dependency, victims of trauma and victims of AIDS. Upon completion of her internship she took a position at the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at St. Boniface Hospital, University of Manitoba where she collaborated with John R. Walker, Ph.D. on the development of treatment protocols for anxiety disorders. She was also active in private practice where she specialized in the assessment and treatment of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and fear of death. She contributed to the work of the Anxiety Disorders Association of Manitoba (ADAM), a province-wide self-help organization dedicated to treatment for and public education about anxiety disorders. The workbook to accompany "Coping with Panic" was developed with the collaboration and cooperation of members of ADAM.

John R. Walker, Ph.D.

Dr. Walker is a registered clinical psychologist and Coordinator of the Anxiety Disorders Program at St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. He is also an associate professor of Clinical Health Psychology at University of Manitoba and supervises senior clinical psychology students in their training in treatment of anxiety disorders. He is an editor of a book titled Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia: A Comprehensive Guide for the Practitioner and more recently has written chapters on social anxiety disorder and treatment of intense illness worries. Dr. Walker has a special interest in self-help approaches to treatment of anxiety disorders and has completed treatment evaluation studies demonstrating the benefits of self-help materials with panic disorder and social phobia. He serves on the board of a self-help association in Manitoba and has worked with them to develop self-help programs which provide assistance to individuals with anxiety disorders in a large region around Winnipeg. Together with Dr. Gloria Eldridge, Dr. Walker has written and evaluated the Coping With Panic Workbook. Together with Coping With Panic, Drs Walker and Eldridge's workbook has formed the basis for a regional self-help treatment program for panic disorder and agoraphobia.

Joseph Wright, Ph.D.

Dr. Wright has a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is currently a faculty member at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has a private practice in which he specializes in the application of cognitive-behavioral therapy to a variety of mental disorders. His book - A Self-Help Relapse -Prevention Program for Panic Attacks - is based on his research into the causes of relapse in individuals suffering from panic and agoraphobia. He demonstrated the effectiveness of his book in a controlled-study on individuals from the community who were suffering with panic attacks.