Reducing chronic anxiety by making the threatening event predictable: an experimental approach.
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Summary
The data suggest that making unpredictable events, such as for example panic attacks, predictable, may reduce the generalized and sustained anxiety that often complicates exposure treatment.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2009-10-01
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 57
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Keywords
Anxiety, Fear-potentiated startle, Psychology, Panic, Extinction (optical mineralogy)
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