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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"exposure therapy"”.
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Sleep and exposure therapy in adults with social anxiety disorder
Exposure therapy is an effective treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), yet many patients do not respond to treatment, experience partial remission, or relapse following initial therapy success. Deficits in therapeutic learning may explain why some individuals derive little or no benefit from …
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Virtual reality exposure therapy as a psychological intervention for public speaking anxiety
… of the efficacy of virtual reality and in-vivo exposure therapy as psychological interventions for public speaking anxiety." Note this is a meta-analysis (form of literature review).<br/><br/>Public speaking anxiety (PSA) is a highly prevalent condition which can be associated with disabling …
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Measuring prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy in freely moving participants
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of phobias; yet little is known about its underlying neural mechanisms. Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that both traditional exposure therapy and virtual reality exposure therapy normalise brain activity within a …
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Traumatic lives finally liberated. Narrative exposure therapy in patients with severe mental illness
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Narrative exposure therapy to treat traumatic stress in middle eastern refugees: a clinical trial
… violence, such as refugees, is Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), which combines elements of traditional exposure therapy as well as the construction of detailed life narratives found in testimony therapy. There is growing evidence from various trials that NET is effective in reducing PTSD …
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Investigating and targeting potential mechanisms of outcome in exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder
Though exposure-based treatments for social anxiety disorder (SAD) are efficacious, not everyone benefits, and we still do not fully understand how and under what conditions this treatment works. Fruitful approaches to better understanding and improving exposure therapy 1) identify predictors of …
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The Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury on Exposure Therapy in Veterans with Combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… research on optimal treatment strategies. While exposure therapy has long been supported as an efficacious treatment for combat-related PTSD, some clinicians are hesitant to utilize this treatment for veterans with TBI history due to presumed cognitive deficits that may preclude successful …
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Ask Your Doctor About Exposure Therapy!: Direct-To-Consumer Marketing Of Empirically Supported Psychological Treatments For Anxiety
… type of treatment (i.e., cognitive-behavioral therapy) in both text and video formats, with appeal type and tone as the independent variables. Dependent measures assessed consumer attitude and evaluation, intent to try or recommend, and recall. Multiple analyses of variance (anovas) on these …
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Widening the lens: An interdisciplinary approach to examining the effect of exposure therapy on public speaking state anxiety.
… was conducted to determine if a multiple-exposure treatment technique (TRIPLESPEAK) would help to attenuate public speaking anxiety. The treatment group reported experiencing significantly less state anxiety during their post-test presentation than did the control group. This lead to the …
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Uplifting and Prioritizing Black Voices in Trauma Intervention: Cultural Adaptations of Written Exposure Therapy for Trauma-Exposed Black Women
Research has highlighted Black women's heightened exposure to trauma, and risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Black women also experience unique internal and external barriers to treatment, including stigma and cultural perspectives on mental health treatment. Further, …
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The Impact of Prolonged Exposure Therapy on Medication Adherence and Quality of Life in People Living with HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… previously demonstrated the success of prolonged exposure (PE) therapy at improving PTSS and depressive symptoms in PLWH. The proposed study extends these findings by determining whether PE also impacted self-reported and electronically monitored medication adherence, and self-reported adherence …
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How do veterans make sense of their disengagement from traditional exposure therapy and their subsequent engagement in a non-exposure based therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
… Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and exposure based interventions. Contextual reasons for the success or failure of particular treatment models that are often only tangentially related to the theoretical underpinnings of the models are discussed. Suggestions regarding what might be …
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Do Olfactory Stimuli Increase Presence During Exposure Tasks: A Comparative Study
Exposure therapy (ET) is an extensively studied and supported treatment for anxiety and trauma-related disorders. ET works by exposing the patient to the feared object or situation without any danger in order to overcome the related anxiety. Over the past few years, various technologies including …
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Exploring the potential role of courage in promoting approach toward feared stimuli.
… feared stimuli is an important component of exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders. Methods that increase approach behaviors may improve exposure therapy outcomes, yet few studies have investigated this possibility. The current study sought to examine the effect of recalling an …
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Managing sound sensitivity in autism spectrum disorder : new technologies for customized intervention
… The intervention borrows principles from exposure therapy and uses Scratch to help individuals gradually habituate to sounds they might ordinarily find irritating, painful, or frightening. Facets of the proposed intervention were evaluated in a laboratory experiment conducted on a …
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TREATING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AMONG AGING VETERANS: WHAT WORKS?
… Affairs (VA) most often use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to treat their clients, with Prolonged Exposure Therapy being the next most popular therapeutic modality. Those clinicians who are separate from the VA are able to employ therapies such as Cognitive Restructuring or blend theories to meet …
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Imaginal Exposure for Disordered Eating Related Fears: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Exposure therapy has been investigated as a potential treatment for eating disorders, but prior research has largely neglected to target core fears driving the disorder. New research suggests that disordered eating behaviors may be driven by underlying feared consequences such as rejection, …
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Managing common mental disorders and PTSD in the community.
… to reduce PTSD symptomology, Peer Outdoor Exposure Therapy (POET). To extrapolate the learning achieved through the pilot studies a Random Control Trial (RCT) was executed looking at the efficacy of POET when utilising the most effective of the pilot study formats, angling. To enhance the …
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Investigating how mindfulness promotes the restorative effects of nature exposure in virtual reality
… mechanisms of action for therapeutic nature exposure as well as the preliminary efficacy of nature exposure therapy in virtual reality. Research subjects completed a survey measure assessing previous visits to nature and self-reported mental health symptoms. They subsequently completed an in …
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An experimental study of exposure-based and emotion-focused interventions: Strange bedfellows, or a match made in heaven?
Exposure therapy is a considered to be the treatment of choice for anxiety disorders, but mechanisms of change underlying its effectiveness are currently being contested. Emotional processing theory postulates that habituation of fear is the primary predictor of change during exposure, while …
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