The effectiveness of worry exposure in treating generalized anxiety disorder

Shahmoradi, Ghasem; Dadashi, Mohsen; Eskandari, Zakaria; Iravani, Mohammad Reza; Salimi, Samaneh; Jannesari, Hajar

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2013.05.021

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“…It is proposed that one treatment strategy warranting closer investigation is imaginal exposure, a key component of several CBT protocols for GAD (Borkovec & Costello, 1993;Mennin, 2004;Robichaud & Dugas, 2006). Imaginal exposure for GAD has been examined independently of other CBT techniques in only a small number of studies (Hoyer et al, 2009;Provencher, Dugas, & Ladouceur, 2004;Shahmoradi et al, 2013).…”

Section: Treatment For Gadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A common way to deliver imaginal exposure for GAD is to have people audiorecord themselves "telling a story" about their worst fear coming true and listening to the recording for 20 to 60 minutes every day. Eight to fifteen sessions of imaginal exposure delivered in this manner leads to large, significant improvements in worry and GAD symptoms (Hoyer et al, 2009;Provencher et al, 2004;Shahmoradi et al, 2013).…”

Section: Treatment For Gadmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A comparison of written exposure with and without rescripting for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder

Ovanessian¹

2021

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The present study examined whether written exposure enhanced with rescripting is more efficacious in reducing GAD symptoms, worry, and related cognitive difficulties than written exposure to the same worst-case scenario or neutral writing. Adults with GAD (N = 67) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions and engaged in 30-minute writing sessions on 3 consecutive days: (1) worst-case scenario exposure; WE (2) written exposure with rescripting; RWE (3) Neutral Control; NC. Participants in both exposure conditions displayed significant reductions in worry and fear of emotions from baseline to 1-month follow-up, but NC participants did not. Participants in the RWE condition also displayed significant improvements in negative problem orientation, perceived cost of the feared scenario, and coping; participants in the WE or NC did not. Findings suggest that overall, RWE was not superior to WE; both written exposure interventions have strong potential to help individuals who suffer from GAD.

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