Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by chronically persistent worry and therefore requires effective long-term treatment. This article reviews the benefits and risks associated with various pharmacologic and psychological therapies to assess their ability to achieve the elimination of GAD symptomatology and restoration of normal function. Psychotherapeutic approaches such as app...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

N Engl J Med 2004;351:675-82. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. During a routine visit, a 59-year-old woman, who describes herself as a lifetime “worrier” and has a family history of depression, reports having restless sleep, muscle tension, and fatigue. Recently, her anxiety has intensified about her children, her job, and her health, and it is having a negative effect on her fam...

This article discusses generalized anxiety disorder in terms of its defining characteristics, its relationship to other psychiatric disorders, its psychobiology, and its treatment. Although generalized anxiety disorder is frequently encountered in general practice, it has been less systematically investigated than the more dramatic forms of anxiety disorders such as panic disorder and phobias. ...

After briefly outlining theoretical models, this clear and concise book presents an integrative, up-to-date treatment protocol for GAD. Suitable both for practitioners and for students, it guides readers through assessment and differential diagnosis, etiological models such as cognitive avoidance, positive beliefs about worry, and intolerance of uncertainty, and treatment techniques. The therap...

introduction : the purpose of this study was to investigate the executive functions (efs) as the mediators between coping with stress styles and generalized anxiety disorder (gad). we examined two styles of coping with stress (problem focused coping (pfc) and emotion focused coping (efc)) and eight executive functions (inhibition, flexibility, focusing, working memory, decision making, reasonin...

Since its inception as a diagnostic category in 1980, the definitional criteria for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have been revised substantially in each edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980), GAD was a residual category (i.e., diagnosis was permitted only if criteria were not met for any other Axis I...