A randomized controlled trial of attention bias modification training for socially anxious adolescents

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 84, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-8

  Fitzgerald, Amanda ^a   Rawdon, Caroline ^a   Dooley, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Attention bias modification; Social anxiety; Threat bias; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY ASSESSMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BRIEF FEAR OF NEGATIVE EVALUATION REVISED; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARALLEL DESIGN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVISED CHILD ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; SCREEN FOR CHILD ANXIETY RELATED EMOTIONAL DISORDERS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOCIAL ANXIETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA AND ANXIETY INVENTORY FOR CHILDREN; THREAT BIAS; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; PHOBIA, SOCIAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOBIA, SOCIAL; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84976871594     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2016.06.003     Document Type: Article

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