Anxiety sensitivity and anxiety disorders in eight year oldsAbstract. This study examines the questions whether anxiety sensitivity (AS), i.e. the tendency to interpret body sensation commonly cooccuring with anxiety as threatening, is already relevant ...
Effects of therapist-guided exposure in CBT for panic disorder and agoraphobiaAbstract.Theoretical background: There is a paucity of studies examining the role of therapist guidance during in-vivo exposure for panic disorder with agoraphobia (PD/AG). A ...
Emotional priming by threatening words in panic patients with and without agoraphobiaAbstract.Background: Due to catastrophic cognitions panic patients are prone to feed-back loops of emotional arousal (cf Clark, 1986). Objective: This tendency should ...
Abstract. Ambulatory assessment methods are well suited to examine how patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia (PD/A) undertake situational exposure. But under complex field conditions of a complex treatment protocol, the variability ...
Clinical usefulness of high-density exposure in patients with agoraphobia: the influence of comorbidities and experience of the therapistAbstract.Aim: In this study the transportability and the generalizability of individual high-density exposure HDE ...
Do Even Eight-Year-Olds Suffer from Panic Disorder? Prevalence Study focussing upon Panic Disorder and AgoraphobiaSummary: A representative sample of 826 eight-year-old second-graders in Dresden was examined in a two-stage procedure to ascertain the 6-...
Intimate relationships of patients meeting a diagnosis of panic disorder/agoraphobia: evidence for submissive and nonassertive conflict stylesAbstract.Background: Clinical observations and earlier empirical data identify problems in interpersonal ...
Using k-means Cluster Analysis to Identify Symptom-Based Subtypes of Patients with Agoraphobic FearAbstract.Background: So far, little is known about symptom-related subgroups of patients with agoraphobic fear, beyond the consideration as with or without ...
Effectiveness of Therapist-Guided Exposure and Programmed Self-Exposure in the Outpatient Treatment of Panic Disorder With AgoraphobiaAbstract.Background: Exposure is highly effective for panic disorder with agoraphobia (PD/AG). However, the role of ...
Which Interventions are Crucial in CBT for Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia? – A Systematic ReviewCognitive-behavioral therapy can be regarded as gold standard in treating panic disorder and agoraphobia. Frequently endorsed intervention techniques are a) ...
Impact of relationship quality on treatment outcome in agoraphobia patientsAbstract.The empirical evidence for the impact of interpersonal factors on the course and treatment of anxiety disorders is controversial. In this study the association between ...