Using panicogenic inhalations of carbon-dioxide enriched air to induce attentional bias for threat: Implications for the development of anxiety disorders.
The tendency for anxious individuals to selectively attend to threatening information is believed to cause and exacerbate anxious emotional responding in a self-perpetuating cycle. The present study sought to examine the relation between differential interoceptive conditioning using carbon dioxide inhalation as a panicogenic unconditioned stimulus (US) and the development of Stroop color-naming interference to various non-word conditioned stimuli (CSs).
Efficacy of ACT on social anxiety disorder: A systematic review
The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) applied to the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD). An exhaustive search was carried out in different databases. After the application of a number of inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of eight studies conducted between 2005 and 2016 were obtained and then reviewed.
Symptoms of social anxiety and depression: Acceptance of socially anxious thoughts and feelings as a moderator
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS)
Volume 11, January 2019, Pages 44-49
Authors:
Maureen K. Flynn, Michael J. Bordieri, and Olga V. Berkout
Psychological inflexibility as it relates to stress, worry, generalized anxiety, and somatization in an ethnically diverse sample of college students
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS)
Volume 11, January 2019, Pages 1-5.
Authors:
Niloofar Tavakoli, Amanda Broyles, Erin K. Reid, J. Robert Sandoval, and Virmarie Correa-Fernández
Abstract:
The reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance and social anxiety among early adolescents: A prospective cohort study
Authors:
Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Kenichiro Ishizu, & Tomu Ohtsuki
A contemporary behavior analysis of anxiety and avoidance
Despite the central status of avoidance in explaining the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders, surprisingly little behavioral research has been conducted on human avoidance. In the present paper, first we provide a brief review of the empirical literature on avoidance.
Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research
Fear generalization, in which conditioned fear responses generalize or spread to related stimuli, is a defining feature of anxiety disorders. The behavioral consequences of maladaptive fear generalization are that aversive experiences with one stimulus or event may lead one to regard other cues or situations as potential threats that should be avoided, despite variations in physical form.
Papachristou, H., Theodorou, M., Neophytou, K., Panayiotou, G. (2018) Community sample evidence on the relations among behavioural inhibition system, anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and social anxiety in adolescents.
Social anxiety in adolescence can have severe consequences including underachievement and school drop-out, psychopathology, and substance use disorders. The development of social anxiety in adolescents is a complex and poorly understood process. Temperamental predispositions such as behavioural inhibition are significant risk factors but the specific path leading from behavioural inhibition to social anxiety remains unclear.
Randomized controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy versus traditional cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder: Symptomatic and behavioral outcomes
Only two trials have compared acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and traditional cognitive behavior therapy (tCBT) in the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with both finding no significant differences. These trials did not examine effects on observer-rated behavioral outcomes and did not explicitly quantify the dose of exposure therapy within each treatment.