Anxiety Disorders
This topics covers disorders including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Recent Submissions
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Digitally augmented, parent-led CBT versus treatment as usual for child anxiety problems in child mental health services in England and Northern Ireland: a pragmatic, non-inferiority, clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial
(2024-03)Anxiety problems are common in children, yet few affected children access evidence-based treatment. Digitally augmented psychological therapies bring potential to increase availability of effective help for children with ... -
Targeting beliefs and behaviours in misophonia: a case series from a UK specialist psychology service
(2023-10)Background: Misophonia, a disorder of decreased sound tolerance, can cause significant distress and impairment. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) may be helpful for improving symptoms of misophonia, but the key mechanisms ... -
Emotion regulation in children (ERiC): A protocol for a randomised clinical trial to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) vs Treatment as Usual for school-age children with mixed emotional and behavioural difficulties
(2023-08)The majority of children referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK will present with mixed emotional and behavioural difficulties, but most mental health treatments are developed for single ... -
Therapist-assisted online psychological therapies differing in trauma focus for post-traumatic stress disorder (STOP-PTSD): a UK-based, single-blind, randomised controlled trial
(2023-08)Many patients are currently unable to access psychological treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and it is unclear which types of therapist-assisted internet-based treatments work best. We aimed to investigate ... -
Getting Better: How Well Are We Assessing and Managing Anxiety Disorders in Community Camhs?
(2023-07)Anxiety disorders are a common presenting problem for young people under the care of Melksham Community CAMHS. Guidelines from NICE outline recommendations for best practice in assessment and treatment of these disorders. ... -
Do they really care? Specificity of social support issues in hoarding disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder
(2023-05)Objectives: Unmet interpersonal needs may play a role in excessive emotional attachments to objects for people with hoarding disorder (HD). Previous research indicates that social support (but not attachment difficulties) ... -
Attachment patterns and autobiographical episodic memory functioning: A systemic review of adult studies to advance clinical psychological science
(2023-02)Patterns of insecure attachment are associated with psychopathology but the mechanisms involved remain poorly understood. Cognitive science proposes that attachment patterns are influenced by the autobiographical memory ... -
Misophonia in the UK: Prevalence and norms from the S-Five in a UK representative sample
(2023-03)What is the reality of the misophonic experience in the general population? This is a study on misophonia in a large sample, representative of the UK general population. The study utilises a multidimensional psychometric ... -
Measuring Symptom-Specific Panic-Relevant Associations Using Single-Target Implicit Association Tests
(2023-05)According to major cognitive accounts of panic disorder, bodily sensations can lead to automatic activation of an associative fear network, potentially triggering a cascade of cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses ... -
The Effectiveness and Feasibility of Psychological Interventions for Populations Under Ongoing Threat: A Systematic Review
(2023-03)Current views of psychological therapies for trauma typically assume the traumatic event to be in the past. Yet, individuals who live in contexts of ongoing organized violence or experience intimate partner violence (IPV) ... -
Preliminary Evaluation of Translated and Culturally Adapted Internet-Delivered Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Multicenter, Single-Arm Trial in Japan
(2023-05)Background: Internet-delivered cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD), which is a therapist-guided modular web-based treatment, has shown strong efficacy and acceptability in English-language randomized ... -
Reduction of aversive learning rates in Pavlovian conditioning by angiotensin II antagonist losartan
(2023-05)The angiotensin receptor blocker losartan has been linked to aspects of aversive learning such as fear acquisition and extinction, inhibition of aversive learning rates and reduced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ... -
A single case report of using Dummett’s systemic cognitive behavioural formulation to guide treatment of adolescent PTSD
(2022-12)Trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) is recommended by NICE for adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Whilst caregiver involvement is recommended, no specific guidance on the nature of involvement is provided ... -
Effects of Training Body-Related Interpretations on Panic-Related Cognitions and Symptoms
(2023-02)Interpretation biases (IBs) are central in panic disorder, and there is rich evidence showing that these are correlated with and predictive of panic-relevant symptomatology. However, experimental studies are needed to ... -
Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial of Guided Self-help Versus Individual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with a Trauma Focus for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (RAPID)
(2022-10)Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common, disabling condition that can occur following major traumatic events. Typical symptoms include distressing reliving, avoidance of reminders, and feeling a current sense ... -
Choking Phobia in an Older Adult: A Telephone-Based CBT Case Study Informed by Gerontology
(2022-06)Fear of choking is a relatively understudied phenomenon in older adults, despite the higher incidence of choking to death in this population and the associated mental health burden. This case report presents the use of a ... -
Guided, internet based, cognitive behavioural therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder: pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled non-inferiority trial (RAPID)
(2022-06)Objective To determine if guided internet based cognitive behavioural therapy with a trauma focus (CBT-TF) is non-inferior to individual face-to-face CBT-TF for mild to moderate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to one ... -
Multisite randomised controlled trial of trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis to reduce post-traumatic stress symptoms in people with co-morbid post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis, compared to treatment as usual: study protocol for the STAR (Study of Trauma And Recovery) trial
(2022-05)People with psychosis have high rates of trauma, with a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevalence rate of approximately 15%, which exacerbates psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. Pilot studies ... -
Ten misconceptions about trauma-focused CBT for PTSD
(2022-04)Therapist cognitions about trauma-focused psychological therapies can affect our implementation of evidence-based therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), potentially reducing their effectiveness. Based on ...
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