Attention Feedback Awareness and Control Training (A-FACT): Experimental test of a novel intervention paradigm targeting attentional bias

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-26

  Bernstein, Amit ^a   Zvielli, Ariel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention bias; Attention modification; Attention training; Awareness; Cognitive bias modification; Cognitive training; Control; Feedback; Information processing; Intervention; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION FEEDBACK AWARENESS AND CONTROL TRAINING; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; PROCEDURES; THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AWARENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896703083     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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