Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach
2014/05/09 by Michelle G. Craske, Michael Treanor, Christopher C. Conway +4 · 1 voice · 2,334 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Anxiety #Anxiety disorder #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Cognitive therapy #Expectancy theory #Exposure and response prevention #Exposure therapy #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Generalized anxiety disorder #Habituation #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Mental Health Research Topics #Panic disorder #Phobias #Phobic disorder #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Social anxiety #Social psychology #Specific phobia
paper · open access · doi:10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.006
published in Behaviour Research and Therapy 58, 10-23 (Elsevier BV)
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