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Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Review and Theoretical Synthesis of Evidence on Nature, Etiology, Mechanisms, and Treatment
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with substantial personal and societal cost yet is the least successfully treated of the anxiety disorders. In this review, research on clinical features, boundary issues, and naturalistic course, as well as risk factors and maintaining mechanisms (cognitive, biological, neural, interpersonal, and developmental), are presented. A synthesis of these data points to a central role of emotional hyperreactivity, sensitivity to contrasting emotions, and dysfunctional attempts to cope with strong emotional shifts via worry. Consistent with the Contrast Avoidance model, evidence shows that worry evokes and sustains negative affect, thereby precluding sharp increases in negative emotion. We also review current treatment paradigms and suggest how the Contrast Avoidance model may help to target key fears and avoidance tendencies that serve to maintain pathology in GAD.
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“Although small studies have suggested that pure GAD is associated with less severe disability than other diagnoses, larger studies have demonstrated that the functional impairment associated with GAD is equivalent and sometimes greater than that of other diagnoses (see Newman et al., 2013 for a review).”
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“For example, verbalizing a fearful situation can induce less cardiovascular response than visually imagining the same situation, possibly because verbalizations are used as a strategy for abstraction and disengagement (Borkovec et al., 1998; but also see Newman & Llera, 2011, and Newman, Llera, Erickson, Przeworski, & Castonguay, 2013, who did not find support for this).”
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“Anthroposophic AT is a treatment that is tailored to the individual, with could partially explain the positive results: patients with severe symptoms, comorbidities and a chronic course appear to be better treatable with a therapy that is adapted to the individual, in terms of intensity and focus (Newman et al., 2013).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Newman, M. G., Llera, S. J., Erickson, T. M., Przeworski, A., & Castonguay, L. G.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Towson University (US)
- Seattle Pacific University (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2013-03-28
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 275-297
- ISSN
- 1548-5943 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-5951
- PMC
- PMC4964851
- OpenAlex
- W2166975679
- Cited by
- 472
- References
- 140
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- ScholarSphere (Penn State Libraries) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH039172)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- generalized anxiety disorder, worry, contrast sensitivity, negative affect, risk factors, anxiety treatment, avoidance, emotion regulation
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Emotions, Humans, Models, Psychological, Evidence-Based Medicine
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