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Dissemination of cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders: Overcoming barriers and improving patient access
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Cognitive-behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders are highly efficacious (e.g., Butler, Chapman, Forman, & Beck, 2006; Deacon & Abramowitz, 2004). These treatments nevertheless remain underutilized and difficult to access for many of the patients who suffer from these conditions (e.g., Norton & Hope, 2005). We identify various barriers to the wide-scale dissemination of these treatments, including those that are applicable to empirically supported treatments more generally (e.g., lack of training opportunities, failure to address practitioner concerns) as well as those that may be relatively specific to CBT for anxiety disorders (e.g., practitioner concerns around using exposure interventions). We offer suggestions for overcoming these barriers, including specific guidance about continued accumulation of a supportive research base, making the appeals that are necessary to obtain required funding and organizational support, and the training of practitioners to deliver these treatments. Advocates of CBT for anxiety disorders will need to demonstrate that these treatments are cost effective, if wide-scale dissemination is to occur. In the United States, advocacy with third party payers will also be necessary. Although providing such steps may prove to be a difficult endeavour, the patients who stand to benefit from this work deserve nothing less.
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“However, there are several access barriers to conventional, face-to-face CBT, such as limited accessibility, high cost, and perceived stigma (Gunter and Whittal, 2010; Mohr et al., 2010).”
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“However, individuals with anxiety often struggle to access CBT due to the limited availability of trained therapists, the costs and travel burden of in-person therapy, and the stigma related to treatment (Gunter & Whittal, 2010; Karlin, 2021; Wolitzky-Taylor et al., 2018).”
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Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Gunter, R. W., & Whittal, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Alberta Health Services (CA)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Gunter, Raymond W.
- Venue
- Clinical Psychology Review
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 194-202
- ISSN
- 0272-7358 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2017929229
- Cited by
- 224
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Clinical Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- cognitive behavioral therapy, anxiety disorders, dissemination of evidence-based treatment, barriers to treatment access, empirically supported treatments, exposure therapy, practitioner training, cost-effectiveness, third-party payers, organizational support
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Humans, Models, Psychological, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Evidence-Based Medicine
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