Treatment of Health Anxiety
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This chapter describes the contemporary treatments for health anxiety, summarizes the research on their efficacy, provides illustrative examples of treatment interventions, and discusses important issues that need to be addressed in order to improve the treatment of health anxiety. It discusses the meta-analysis of treatments for health anxiety. Excessive health anxiety was a defining feature of hypochondriasis in DSM-IV, and now, in DSM-5, is a defining feature of somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the leading, empirically supported intervention for health anxiety. Several different types of protocols were examined in the CBT studies, including cognitive therapy with or without exposure exercises, exposure and response prevention, stress management, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. The role of the cognitive-behavioral therapist is to help patients with excessive health anxiety discover new ways of understanding their bodily sensations, in order to reduce suffering, improve functioning, and increase overall quality of life.
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Pandemic reactions such as misinterpretations of health-related stimuli, cognitive distortions, irrational beliefs, maladaptive behaviors, and attention processes have a central role in coronaphobia.
“pandemic reactions such as misinterpretations of health-related stimuli, cognitive distortions, irrational beliefs, maladaptive behaviors, and attention processes have a central role in coronaphobia (Leventhal et al., 2016; Taylor and Asmundson, 2017).”
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- Authors
- Taylor, S., & Asmundson, G. J. G.
- Venue
- The Wiley Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-06-19
- Pages
- 977-989
- OpenAlex
- W2691252244
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
- Keywords
- health anxiety, somatic symptom disorder, cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure and response prevention, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, stress management, cognitive therapy, treatment efficacy, bodily sensations
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