Cognitive restructuring treatment: A controlled trial with anxious patients

Generalizability of Clinical Trial Results for Generalized Anxiety Disorder to Community Samples

“…The same criteria were applied to the subsample of individuals with current GAD who sought treatment, to investigate potential differences in eligibility between treatment-seeking and nontreatment-seeking individuals, respectively in pharmacological and psychotherapy clinical trials, using a similar pattern of analysis to that previously described for nicotine dependence. We then collected separately all exclusion criteria from the 24 and 12 clinical trials included, [54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] and kept criteria included in more than 10% of the studies. Of the 27 trials included in the pharmacological meta-analysis, 24 studies were included in the present study.…”

“…Of the 18 clinical trials included in the psychotherapy metaanalysis, [20] six studies were not available. We then collected separately all exclusion criteria from the 24 and 12 clinical trials included, [54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] and kept criteria included in more than 10% of the studies. Because the exclusion rate may be lower in psychotherapy than in pharmacological trials, we investigated the exclusion rate separately.…”

Comparison of behavior therapy and cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.

“…Compared with the substantial progress that has been made in the psychological treatment of phobic and panic disorders (e.g., Barlow, 1988;Clark, 1986;Foaand Kozak, 1985), progress in the development of effective treatments for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has been disappointing. Indications that cognitive techniques may be particularly effective for this population (e.g, Borkovec et al, 1987;Durham and Turvey, 1987;Woodward and Jones, 1980) have not been consistent (e.g., Barlow et al, 1984;Borkovec and Mathews, 1988;Lindsay, Gamsu, McLaughlin, Hood, & Espie, 1987). In general, treatment effects are small, and treatments from different theoretical backgrounds appear to be equally, nonspecifically effective (see Ost, 1990, for a review).…”

Adaptation of the Zung self‐rating anxiety scale for people with a mental handicap*

“…The present authors' work on anxiety and phobia in mental handicap (Lindsay & Baty, 1986a, 1986b) has led to an interest in adapting one of the standard anxiety assessments for use with this client group. The Zung self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) (Zung, 1971) has been widely used in the assessment of generalized anxiety and treatment effects (Durham & Turvey, 1987;Lindsay et al 1987;Woodward & Jones, 1980 The adaptation has borne one main issue in mind. It is essential that the SAS questions are easily understood by the client group.…”