Background Anxiety and related disorders are among the most common mental disorders,
with lifetime prevalence reportedly as high as 31%. Unfortunately, anxiety disorders are …

Key Clinical Points Social Anxiety Disorder Social anxiety disorder affects up to 13% of the
US population and is characterized by an intense fear of social situations in which the …

Deepening understanding of the nature of emotional disorders reveals that commonalities in
etiology and latent structure among these disorders supercedes differences. In the 1960s …

Now revised and expanded to include cutting-edge acceptance-based techniques and a
new focus on inhibitory learning, this is the leading guide to therapeutic exposure, a crucial …

The cognitive and cognitive-behavioral interventions are among the best supported and
most widely practiced of the psychosocial interventions. These approaches are based on the …

Anxiety and mood disorders are common, chronic, costly, and characterized by high
comorbidity. The development of cognitive behavioral approaches to treating anxiety and …

In this report, which is an update of a guideline published in 2002 (Bandelow et al. 2002,
World J Biol Psychiatry 3: 171), recommendations for the pharmacological treatment of …

Recent studies suggest that cognitive and behavioral interventions have enduring effects
that reduce risk for subsequent symptom return following treatment termination. These …

A new cognitive therapy (CT) program was compared with an established behavioral
treatment. Sixty-two patients meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders …

Sixty patients meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.:
American Psychiatric Association, 1994) criteria for generalized social phobia were …