Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-23

  Craske, Michelle G ^a   Treanor, Michael ^a   Conway, Christopher C ^a   Zbozinek, Tomislav ^a   Vervliet, Bram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affect labeling; Deepened extinction; Expectancy violation; Exposure therapy; Inhibitory learning; Multiple contexts; Occasional reinforced extinction; Retrieval cues; Safety signals

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEEPENED EXTINCTION; EXPECTANCY VIOLATION; EXPOSURE THERAPY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE CONTEXT; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCASIONAL REINFORCED EXTINCTION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RECONSOLIDATION; REMOVAL OF SAFETY SIGNAL; RETRIEVAL CUE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; VARIABILITY; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PROCEDURES; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 84901350374     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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