Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

Title
Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Steinman, S A
Wootton, Bethany
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9036-0699
Email: bwootton@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:bwootton
Tolin, D F
Editor
Editor(s): Howard S Friedman
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Academic Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Edition
2
DOI
10.1016/b978-0-12-397045-9.00266-4
UNE publication id
une:21488
Abstract
Over a quarter of the United States population will suffer from an anxiety disorder within their lifetime (Kessler et al., 2005). One common intervention across all of the anxiety disorders is 'exposure therapy', defined as any treatment that encourages the systematic confrontation of feared stimuli with the aim of decreasing fearful physiological, cognitive, and behavioral reactions. These feared stimuli can be external to the patient (e.g., feared objects, activities, or situations) or internal to the patient (e.g., feared thoughts or physical sensations).
Link
Citation
Encyclopedia of Mental Health, v.2, p. 186-191
ISBN
9780123977533
9780128046630
9780123970459
Start page
186
End page
191

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