Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
January, 2014
Treatment Options for Panic Disorder
Treatment Options for Panic Disorder including: Psychological Treatments During the past 10 years, there has been extensive evaluation of the psychological treatment of panic disorder, with and without extensive agoraphobic avoidance. This evaluation has overwhelmingly demonstrated that cognitive behavioral packages are extremely successful in managing panic disorder. In general, following treatment, around 80% of participants […]
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panic disorder biological perspective
There is a long history of research into biological aspects of panic disorder. Most of the evidence in humans has come from biological challenge procedures and pharmacological treatment and manipulation studies. More recently, evidence has accumulated from neuroimaging studies of people with panic attacks. A large number of chemical substances, it has been found, produce […]
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panic disorder psychological factors
Psychological Factors Despite certain specific differences, most psychological models of panic disorder see the central problem as the individuals’ fear of their own physical sensations. In this way, panic disorder is seen as almost a phobic disorder, and the feared (phobic) stimuliare internal (somatic symptoms) rather than external. Basically, these models suggest that somatic symptoms […]
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