A preliminary investigation of cognitive and relaxation treatment of panic disorder: Effects on intense anxiety vs ‘background’ anxiety

Waddell, Maria T.; Barlow, David H.; O’Brien, Gregory

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(84)90082-2

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“…Waddell, Barlow, and O'Brien (1984) found that a combination of relaxation and cognitive restructuring had the effect of attenuating the frequency and duration of discrete episodes of anxiety, while having no consistent effect on more pervasive, generalized anxiety. There is also some evidence that PD and GAD patients differ with respect to developmental antecedents.…”

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Issues in diagnosing anxiety disorders

Cerny

Himadi

Barlow

1984

Journal of Behavioral Assessment

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Research progress in the anxiety disorders is predicated on a useful classification system. In this paper, we review the reliability and validity data for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, anxiety disorders and discuss the salient issues associated with both the conceptualization of anxiety disorders and the diagnostic criteria offered in the DSM-III. It is concluded that the diagnostic reliability for these disorders is, overall, satisfactory. A dearth of validity data, however, hinders progress in both the diagnosis and the treatment of the anxiety disorders.Nevertheless, the DSM-11I work group has proposed several changes in the diagnostic criteria for the anxiety disorders. We find some of these proposed changes helpful in that they clarify current diagnostic criteria; changes in diagnostic criteria that alter the basic classification schema, however, seem to be premature.

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Section: Panic Disordermentioning

confidence: 97%

Issues in diagnosing anxiety disorders

Cerny

Himadi

Barlow

1984

Journal of Behavioral Assessment

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“…treatment (Waddell, Barlow, & O'Brien, 1984). Thus, it is as yet unclear if panic attacks represent the peak of a quantitative increase in anxiety, or a qualitatively different phenomenon (Barlow & Beck, 1984;Klein, 1981).…”

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Psychophysiology of relaxation-associated panic attacks.

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Blanchard³

1985

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Physiological changes preceding and accompanying panic attacks were serendipitously observed in two anxiety-disorder patients who were relaxing during physiological assessment. Both patients showed decreases in heart rate and frontalis electromyograph during relaxation, followed by sudden increases on both measures at the onset of panic. Hand-surface temperature showed a similar but less intense pattern of response. Possible mechanisms involved in this phenomenon are discussed.

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“…At a 12-month follow-up, the same pattern of results emerged. Waddell, Barlow, and O'Brien (1984) investigated the effectiveness of self-coping statements and progressive relaxation on panic symptoms. They found that significant decreases in panic attacks occurred with self-coping statements.…”

Section: Cognitive Treatmentmentioning

confidence: 99%