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Advances in the Psychosocial Treatment of Anxiety Disorders: Implications for National Health Care

David H. Barlow, +1 more
- 01 Aug 1996 - 
- Vol. 53, Iss: 8, pp 727-735
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The first generation of multisite studies examining the potentially synergistic effects of proven psychosocial treatments and proven drug treatments are examined, with some preliminary results reported.
Abstract
Recent developments in the psychosocial treatments for anxiety disorders suggest that we have reached an early plateau Evidence now exists on the effectiveness of psychosocial treatment approaches for every anxiety disorder when compared with no treatment or credible psychosocial placebos In many cases these procedures have limited clinical effectiveness and much remains to be learned about the disseminability and clinical utility of these approaches in the context of emerging national health care plans We are just beginning the first generation of multisite studies examining the potentially synergistic effects of proven psychosocial treatments and proven drug treatments These studies that have substantial significance for national health care are reviewed and some preliminary results are reported

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Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey

TL;DR: The prevalence of psychiatric disorders is greater than previously thought to be the case, and morbidity is more highly concentrated than previously recognized in roughly one sixth of the population who have a history of three or more comorbid disorders.
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Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic

TL;DR: Barlow et al. as discussed by the authors classified generalized and specific phobias into three categories: generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and anxiety disorder with three vulnerabilities: fear, anxiety, and phobia.
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Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in rape victims: a comparison between cognitive-behavioral procedures and counseling.

TL;DR: Rape victims with posttraumatic stress disorder were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: stress inoculation training (SIT), prolonged exposure (PE), supportive counseling (SC), or wait-list control (WL).
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Cognitive processing therapy for sexual assault victims.

TL;DR: Cognitive processing therapy was developed to treat the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in rape victims and subjects improved significantly from pre- to posttreatment on both PTSD and depression measures and maintained their improvement for 6 months.
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