Socially anxious primary care patients attitudes toward cognitive bias modification (CBM): A qualitative study

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 618-633

  Beard, Courtney ^a   Weisberg, Risa B ^a   Primack, Jennifer ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; attention; interpretation; Keywords: Cognitive bias modification; qualitative; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOBIA; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84865284876     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465811000671     Document Type: Article

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