Vigilant and avoidant attention biases as predictors of response to cognitive behavioral therapy for social phobia

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-353

  Price, Matthew ^a   Tone, Erin B ^a   Anderson, Page L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention biases; Social phobia; Treatment response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADULT; ANGER; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79953760490     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20791     Document Type: Article

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