How does attention training work in social phobia: Disengagement from threat or re-engagement to non-threat?

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1108-1115

  Heeren, Alexandre ^a,b   Lievens, Laurent ^a   Philippot, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention training; Attentional bias; Cognitive bias modification; Social Phobia; Speech performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION TRAINING; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STRESS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80054690478     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: 18737897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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