Predictors of treatment outcomes in anxious children receiving group cognitive-behavioural therapy: Pretreatment attention bias to threat and emotional variability during exposure tasks

Behaviour Change

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 143-158

  Waters, Allison M ^a   Potter, Alex ^a   Jamesion, Leah ^a   Bradley, Brendan P ^b   Mogg, Karin ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Attention bias; Children; Cognitive behavioural therapy; Emotional variability

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; EXPOSURE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THERAPY EFFECT; THREAT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84937884424     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: 20497768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/bec.2015.6     Document Type: Article

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