Eighty treatment-seeking adults age 60 or over with panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and mixed anxiety states (generalized anxiety with panic attacks, panic disorder with secondary generalized anxiety) completed a clinical assessment and battery of self report measures. Several hypotheses were tested from the domains of distinguishing symptoms, associated features, and rates of com...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders encountered in the primary care setting. Lifetime prevalence of GAD is approximately 5% in the U.S. adult population [1,2]; prevalence in the primary care setting has been estimated at 8% [3,4]. GAD usually has a chronic course that is associated with significant psychosocial impairment, disability, decreased qua...

As discussed in previous chapters in this volume, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a relatively common disorder that is associated with significant distress and functional impairment. Fortunately, advances in both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy have resulted in a greater likelihood of providing effective treatment. Unfortunately, many more inroads remain to be made to clarify what works...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a common illness with diagnostic criteria that have changed substantially over time. Symptoms of GAD overlap with those of major depressive disorder to such an extent that studying one disorder without studying the other may be impossible. Such an overlap, combined with potentially inappropriate diagnostic criteria for GAD, makes diagnosing and researching ...

Although mild worry is normative, children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) experience worry that is intense, difficult to control, and impairing. Common worries of children with GAD may relate to perfectionism, performance, social situations, family, community/world events, or health. GAD co-occurs not only with other internalizing disorders (e.g., depression) but also with externalizin...

Anxiety—formally ‘‘discovered’’ in 1844 by Sören Kierkegaard in the book titled Begrebet angest, translated into English in 1944 as The Concept of Dread—has undergone a series of changes in conceptions (McReynolds, 1985). Anxiety was thought to be a result of having the freedom to choose as well as having an apprehension associated with seeking the unknown (Goodwin, 1986; McReynolds 1985). Sinc...

objective: acceptance-based behavior therapy (abbt) is a new psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder (gad). the current study intended to compare severity of symptoms, worry and quality of life of gad female patients between abbt and control. methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial. the sample included 18 women with gad referred to psychiatrists in isfahan, iran. patients wer...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common anxiety disorders and has a poor prognosis, although it is often thought to be a minor complaint. This disorder has a chronic course of 5-15 years and longer. Long-term treatment with the commonly used benzodiazepines is controversial because of concerns over tolerance and dependence. We performed a thorough search of the literature f...

Background & Objective: People with Illness Anxiety Disorder experience excessive worry and in this regard, they have a lot in common with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT) is a multifaceted and integrated treatment that is widely used for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and its effectiveness in anxious factors has been established in many studies. The aim of the pres...