In this article, the authors assess the successes, remaining challenges, and new developments in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders. They define CBT, examine treatment components, review treatment efficacy, and discuss the challenges of attrition, long-term follow-up, co-occurring/comorbid disorders, limited treatment comparisons, treatment mediators, and broader implement...

Emetophobia is defined as a specific phobia of vomiting, currently diagnosed as specific phobia “other” type in DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Though there is a dearth of research conducted on emetophobia and its treatment, there is limited data from case studies (Hunter & Antony, 2009; Maack, Deacon, & Zhao, 2013) and one open trial of group therapy (Ahlen, Edberg, Di Schiena,...

The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety is well established. Investigations into the mechanisms of change in CBT report changes in cognitive vulnerabilities mediating improvements over the course of treatment. As anxiety disorders share certain risk factors, there is a trend toward CBT emphasizing these vulnerabilities, including negative affectivity (NA) and also more sp...

INTRODUCTION Cognitive behaviour therapy delivered in the format of guided self-help via the internet has been found to be effective for a range of conditions, including depression and anxiety disorders. Recent results indicate that guided self-help via the internet is a promising treatment format also for psychodynamic therapy. However, to date and to our knowledge, no study has evaluated inte...

BACKGROUND Emotional disorders (depression and anxiety disorders) are highly prevalent mental health problems. Although evidence showing the effectiveness of disorder-specific treatments exists, high comorbidity rates among emotional disorders limit the utility of these protocols. This has led some researchers to focus their interest on transdiagnostic interventions, a treatment perspective tha...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to elucidate efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavior therapy based on unified protocol (up) for reducing symptoms severity of obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) with co-occurring anxiety and unipolar mood disorders. materials and methods: from the thirty patients who participated to treatment, twenty four participants were randomly assigned...

Transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT) for anxiety disorders have been gaining increased attention and empirical study in recent years. Despite this, all of the research on transdiagnostic anxiety treatments to date have either not used a control condition, or have relied on no-treatment or delayed-treatment controls, thus limiting inferences about comparative efficacy. The curre...