Background: Cognitive schema theories of anxiety postulate that higher-level cognitive processes such as attention and memory are guided by underlying distorted fear associations. While numerous studies investigated these disorderspecific, biased processes, hardly any research addressed the underlyi
Generalized Anxiety Disorder in youth: diagnostic considerations
โ Scribed by Courtney L. Benjamin; Rinad S. Beidas; Jonathan S. Comer; Anthony C. Puliafico; Philip C. Kendall
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-4269
- DOI
- 10.1002/da.20747
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