Modifying automatic approach action tendencies in individuals with elevated social anxiety symptoms

Automatic Avoidance Tendencies in Social Anxiety

s of the 9 Annual Meeting of the Society for Anxiety Research Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Germany November 16-17, 2007, Würzburg, Germany

Retraining automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol in hazardous drinkers.

AIMS The main aim of this study was to test whether automatic action-tendencies to approach alcohol can be modified, and whether this affects drinking behaviour. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Forty-two hazardous drinkers were assigned randomly to a condition in which they were implicitly trained to avoid or to approach alcohol, using a training variety of the alcohol Approach Avoidance Test (AAT). ...

Depression, Anxiety, Psychosomatic Symptoms and Perceived Social Support in Type D and non Type D Individuals

Objectives: This study examines depression, anxiety, psychosomatic indications and perceived social support among type d and non type individuals. Methods: Altogether, 300 individuals of age from 18-40 years took an interest in the investigation. Distress personality scale (DS 14), Pakistan anxiety and despondency scale, psychosomatic and perceived social support scales were utilized. The part...

Efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy in reducing anxiety symptoms in Iranian individuals with flying phobia

Objective: Virtual reality exposure has recently emerged as an innovative tool for exposure therapy in the treatment of fear of flying. Fear of flying, a key component of which is anxiety, often remains uncured if no intervention procedures are employed. Not to point to the fact that about 10 to 25 percent of all the individuals experience anxiety and ‌that causes the individual entirely to avo...

Anxiety Symptoms in Individuals with High Functioning Autism