These evidence-based therapies have the potential to greatly improve your quality of life and help mitigate your anxious thoughts. Most therapists try to integrate more than one type of treatment depending on the needs of the patient. For example, it is common for a therapist who primarily uses...
Researchers have identified four categories of attachment styles: secure attachment, anxious attachment (sometimes called preoccupied attachment), avoidant attachment (sometimes called dismissive attachment), and disorganized attachment (sometimes called fearful-avoidant attachment). Based on an individual’s rel...
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The purpose of this treatment development study was to modify and tailor CBT and family therapy to the specific needs of anxious adolescents. Specifically, for CBT we sought to examine how therapeutic approaches and techniques might need to be modified from the original Kendall (1994) manual design...
What does insecure attachment look like? People who develop an avoidant attachment style often havea dismissive attitude, shun intimacy, and have difficulties reaching for others in times of need. Ambivalent. People with an ambivalent attachment pattern are often anxious and preoccupied. ...
While attachment disorders are only diagnosable in children, adults can experience insecure attachment styles, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and relationship difficulties. Adult attachment patterns include secure, anxious, dismissive-avoidant, and fearful-avoidant. Working with a therapist can help...
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The GAD-7 is a 7 item self-report scale initially designed to identify probable cases of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Items (e.g., “Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge”) are answered in a 4-point Likert scale (ranging from 0 = ’not at all’ to 3 = ‘nearly ...
Perceived family environments of depressed and anxious children: child’s and maternal figure’s perspectives. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1990;18(5):527–47. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Waters HS, Waters E. The attachment working models concept: among other things, we build script-like ...
To determine whether baseline dimensions of adult insecure attachment (avoidant and anxious) moderated outcome in a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) plus supportive listening (CBT + SL) versus CBT plus interpersonal and emotional processing th...