Subject
Analysis; Anxiety Disorders; Drug Therapy; Child Psychology; Anxiety; Health aspects; Children; Cognitive Therapy; Adolescents; Therapy; Attention; Anxieties; Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis; Anxiety Disorders - psychology; Anxiety Disorders - therapy; Attentional bias; Care and treatment; Cognitive Restructuring; Cognitive Therapy/methods; COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; DEVELOPMENTAL; EMOTIONAL FACES; EXPERIMENTAL MANIPULATION; Medical Research; Medical treatment; Outcomes of Treatment; PSYCHIATRY; Psychology; RANDOMIZED CLINICAL-TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA; THREAT; VISUAL-ATTENTION
Description
Attention bias modification (ABM) is a newly emerging therapy for anxiety disorders that is rooted in current cognitive models of anxiety and in established experimental data on threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. This review describes the evidence indicating that ABM has the potential to become an enhancing tool for current psychological and pharmacological treatments for anxiety or even a novel standalone treatment. The review also outlines the gaps in need of bridging before ABM techniques could be routinely applied and incorporated into standard treatment protocols. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
2010-08