Mindfulness and acceptance-based behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Roemer, Lizabeth ^a   Williston, Sarah K ^a   Eustis, Elizabeth H ^a   Orsillo, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Acceptance and commitment therapy; Acceptance based behavioral therapies; Anxiety disorders; Decentering; Experiential avoidance; Mindfulness; Mindfulness based cognitive therapy; Mindfulness based stress reduction; Psychiatry; Psychological treatments; Psychosocial treatments; Treatment review

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ACCEPTANCE BASED BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MINDFULNESS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS;

EID: 84893158574     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-013-0410-3     Document Type: Article

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