Current and future approaches to pediatric anxiety disorder treatment

A Zugman, AM Winkler, P Qamar… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
This overview critically appraises the literature on the treatment of pediatric anxiety
disorders. The two established treatments for these conditions comprise cognitive …

Mechanisms of change in exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: a research agenda

K Benito, A Pittig, J Abramowitz… - Clinical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Anxiety and related disorders are a significant public-health burden with rising prevalence in
the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As demand for effective anxiety treatment increases …

Effective—and tolerable: Acceptance and side effects of intensified exposure for anxiety disorders

I Heinig, S Knappe, J Hoyer, HU Wittchen, J Richter… - Behavior Therapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite striking empirical support, exposure-based treatments for anxiety disorders are
underutilized. This is partially due to clinicians' concerns that patients may reject exposure or …

Clinician maladaptive anxious avoidance in the context of implementation of evidence-based interventions: a commentary

EM Becker-Haimes, CC Klein, HE Frank… - Frontiers in health …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This paper posits that a clinician's own anxious reaction to delivering specific evidence-
based interventions (EBIs) should be better accounted for within implementation science …

The “how” of exposures: Examining the relationship between exposure parameters and outcomes in obsessive-compulsive disorder

CW Ong, JM Petersen, CL Terry, J Krafft… - Journal of Contextual …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure and response prevention (ERP) is the most empirically supported treatment for
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, details on how to effectively conduct ERP …

Exposure to exposure: A protocol for leveraging exposure principles during training to address therapist-level barriers to exposure implementation

J Kemp, K Benito, J Herren, Z Brown, HE Frank… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Exposure therapy is a highly effective but underutilized treatment for anxiety
disorders. A primary contributor to its underutilization is therapist-level negative beliefs about …

Improving delivery behaviors during exposure for pediatric OCD: a multiple baseline training trial with community therapists

KG Benito, J Herren, JB Freeman, AM Garcia, P Block… - Behavior therapy, 2021 - Elsevier
This study tested whether a new training tool, the Exposure Guide (EG), improved in-session
therapist behaviors (ie, indicators of quality) that have been associated with youth outcomes …

A case example of community-based supervision to overcome barriers and support the implementation of exposure therapy.

SH Schriger, AL Boroshok, AN Khan, L Wang… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Supervision in community mental health (CMH) settings is critically important for supporting
clinical competency and optimizing clinical outcomes. However, CMH supervision is …

LIVES for families psychological first aid training programme to address COVID-19 psychological distress: a mixed methods acceptability and feasibility protocol

M Kimber, S Harms, N Soreni, M Inrig, A Acai… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Best practice approaches for addressing COVID-19-related psychological
distress among young people (< 25 years) and their families remain unclear. Psychological …

Scaling-up Behavioral Observation with Computational Behavior Recognition

NN Lønfeldt, S Das, FD Frumosu, ARC Mora-Jensen… - 2023 - osf.io
Behavioral observation is an important tool for research and practice in clinical,
developmental, and social psychology. Traditional, expert-based methods for behavioral …