o21: exposure therapy’s two cultures: anxiety-reducing vs. anxiety-increasing treatment

O21: Exposure Therapy’s Two Cultures: Anxiety-Reducing vs. Anxiety-Increasing Treatment

Exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy (“exposure therapy”) is the most effective psychological treatment for anxiety disorders. However, popular exposure-based treatments differ substantially in how exposure is delivered, and emerging research indicates that the effectiveness of exposure is closely tied to its manner of delivery. The author will present research indicating tha...

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...

Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders

Over a quarter of the people in the US population will have an anxiety disorder sometime during their lifetime.1 It is well established that exposure-based behavior therapies are effective treatments for these disorders; unfortunately, only a small percentage of patients are treated with exposure therapy.2,3 For example, in the Harvard/Brown Anxiety Research Project, only 23% of treated patient...

Self-Constructs and Anxiety Across Cultures

efl listening strategies and anxiety among bilingual vs. monolingual junior high school students

از آنجایی که مهارت شنیدار یکی از مهم ترین مهارتها در یادگیری زبان های خارجی در بین زبان آموزان می باشد وهمیشه مورد توجه معلمان زبان انگلیسی و محققین در این رشته بوده است ،تحقیق حاضر به این موضوع مهم پرداخته و میزان استراتژی های شنیداری دانش آموزان و میزان اضطراب شنیداری در هنگام گوش دادن به یک متن را در دو گروه دانش آموز یک زبانه و دو زبانه مورد بررسی قرار داده است. دانش آموزان یک زبانه از دبیر...

Reducing State Anxiety Using Working Memory Maintenance

The purpose of this protocol is to explain how to examine the relationship between working memory processes and anxiety by combining the Sternberg Working Memory (WM) and the threat of shock paradigms. In the Sternberg WM paradigm, subjects are required to maintain a series of letters in the WM for a brief interval and respond by identifying whether the position of a given letter in the series ...