Coping with Rejection Concerns in Romantic Relationships: An Experimental Investigation of Social Anxiety and Risk Regulation
Social anxiety tends to be examined from an intrapersonal perspective. Only recently have researchers started to explore social anxiety in the context of close relationships. In the current study, we investigated whether people with greater social anxiety respond defensively when the threat of being rejected by one׳s romantic partner becomes salient. Confronted with possible rejection, we hypothesized that people with greater social anxiety would devalue their partners to minimize the impact of the rejection.
Further investigation of the association between anxiety sensitivity and posttraumatic stress disorder: Examining the influence of emotional avoidance
Author(s):
Joseph R. Bardeen, Matthew T. Tull, Erin N. Stevens & Kim L. Gratz
Coping with rejection concerns in romantic relationships: An experimental investigation of social anxiety and risk regulation
Author(s):
Alex Afram & Todd B. Kashdan
ACT: Anxiety
Author-clinical psychologist Dr. Kelly Wilson descibes how the use the principles of ACT Therapy to address anxiety in an effective way. Also see “Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong”
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Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology: Avoidance predicts distress
Anxiety disorders entail avoidance of feared situations and anxious experiences, which is believed to maintain anxiety pathology. It remains unclear if predominant coping styles, like avoidance, are similar across anxiety disorders or if each disorder has its own coping profile. This has important implications for conceptualization of maintenance mechanisms and treatment planning for clients presenting with different anxiety problems, since ineffective and inflexible coping may perpetuate distress.
Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology: Avoidance predicts distress
Author(s):
Georgia Panayiotou, Maria Karekla, Ioanna Mete
Relationships between amount of post-intervention mindfulness practice and follow-up outcome variables in an acceptance-based behavior therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The importance of informal practice
Because most behavioral treatments are time-limited, skills and practices that foster long-term maintenance of gains made during treatment are of critical importance. While some studies have found mindfulness practice to be associated with improvements in outcome variables over the course of treatment (Vettese, Toneatto, Stea, Nguyen, & Wang, 2009), very little is known about the effects of continued mindfulness practice following treatment termination.
A pilot study of processes of change in group-based acceptance and commitment therapy for health anxiety
Background
Health Anxiety of hypochondriasis is a disabling and persistent disorder with a high prevalence in primary care, and insufficient treatment opportunities and knowledge of treatment processes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a third-wave behavioral therapy, which has shown positive treatment effects in a variety of mental disorders. ACT is proposed to work through the process of 'psychological flexibility,' but no studies have yet examined possible processes of change in an act-based treatment of health anxiety.
Aim
The pilot study investigated whether changes in 'psychological flexibility' and 'mindfulness' mediated treatment outcome in health anxiety symptoms.
Methods
A pilot study of processes of change in group-based acceptance and commitment therapy for health anxiety
Author(s):
Ditte Hoffmann, Lea Halsboe, Trine Eilenberg, Jens S. Jensen, Lisbeth Frostholm
Relationships between amount of post-intervention mindfulness practice and follow-up outcome variables in an acceptance-based behavior therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The importance of informal practice
Author(s):
Lucas P.K. Morgan, Jessica R. Graham, Sarah A. Hayes-Skelton, Susan M. Orsillo, Lizabeth Roemer