article thumbnail

Anxiety Disorders: Managing Anxiety and Stress for Better Mental Health

Psychological Health Care

However, that fact will provide little consolation if your symptoms are so severe as to send you to a hospital emergency department fearing a heart attack or some other life-threatening illness. Treatments could include: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is considered one of the most effective forms of treatment for anxiety disorders.

Anxiety 70
article thumbnail

Diversity Spotlight: Nadine A. Chang, PhD

Society of Clinical Psychology

Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Chang holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine , as well as a role as an Assistant Attending Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Technology and the future of cognitive-behavioral interventions

Society of Clinical Psychology

Our field has accumulated a lot of empirical support for the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating a wide range of mental and behavioral health problems. That said, I-CBT is already becoming antiquated as the ubiquity and convenience of smartphones take hold. How do I-CBT and smartphone-delivered CBT compare?

article thumbnail

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in Anxiety: We’re Halfway There

Society of Clinical Psychology

Levy, Springer, and Tolin discuss a recent meta-analytic review of remission in CBT for anxiety disorders published in Clinical Psychology Review. . The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders is well established, at least in terms of pre- to post-treatment reductions in anxiety severity.

Anxiety 52
article thumbnail

Psychotherapy research in the 21st century

Society of Clinical Psychology

CBT) than others. Symptoms of depression have been widely studied as moderators of outcomes of CBTs vs. other interventions. In our work, we have found that baseline characteristics moderate treatment outcomes when comparing CBTs to other interventions including: antidepressants (DeRubeis et al.,

article thumbnail

SSW Faculty and Students Present at SSWR Conference 2023

University of Connecticut

Location: Hospitality 2 – Room 444. Location: Hospitality 3 – Room 432. Location: Hospitality 3 – Room 432. Location: Hospitality 3 – Room 432. Location: Hospitality 3 – Room 432. Location: Hospitality 1 – Room 443. Thursday, January 12. Time: 3:15 – 4:45 PM. Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM. Time: 8:00 – 9:30 AM.

article thumbnail

Anxiety Treatments on Repetitive Negative Thinking

Society of Clinical Psychology

There has been a recent meta-analysis of treatment for depression which suggests that RNT-focused interventions have similar effects on reducing depression and RNT (namely, rumination) to traditional CBT interventions (Spinhoven et al., References. Ehring, T., & Watkins, E. Repetitive negative thinking as a transdiagnostic process.

Anxiety 52