3 results match your criteria: "Illawarra Anxiety Clinic[Affiliation]"
The Scarier the Better: Maximizing Exposure Therapy Outcomes for Spider Fear.
Behav Cogn Psychother
November 2018
Illawarra Anxiety Clinic,Mount Pleasant,NSW,Australia.
Background: While exposure therapy effectively reduces anxiety associated with specific phobias, not all individuals respond to treatment and some will experience a return of fear after treatment ceases.
Aims: This study aimed to test the potential benefit of increasing the intensity of exposure therapy by adding an extra step that challenged uncontrollability (Step 15: allowing a spider to walk freely over one's body) to the standard fear hierarchy.
Method: Fifty-one participants who had a severe fear of spiders completed two 60-min exposure sessions 1 week apart in a context that was either the same or different from the baseline and follow-up assessment context.
Behavior performed by parents to assist a youth in avoiding or alleviating anxiety, known as accommodation, is ubiquitous among pediatric anxiety disorders and strongly related to poor treatment outcome. According to cognitive-behavioral theory, the beliefs parents hold regarding accommodation should predict parental accommodating behavior. Unfortunately, little is known about the beliefs parents hold regarding accommodation, as there exists no validated measure of this construct.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssociation and Causation in Brain Imaging: The Case of OCD.
Am J Psychiatry
June 2017
From the Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.; the Department of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos; the Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Illawarra Anxiety Clinic, New South Wales, Australia.