Excessive anxiety and anxiety are two of the powerful basic components of generalized anxiety disorder (TAG). In this article, we will discuss the possibility of using a cognitive behavioral therapy approach to treat this disorder.
Are there no differences in the content of people’s concerns? Normal? and those with GAD. However, Dugas and Ladouceur (1997) point out that the latter are affected by less and less important situations.
- People with TAG are concerned about unlikely situations and also maintain a state of concern over time as they move from one concern to another.
- People with TAG seeking treatment have a greater anxiety trait.
- Less control of perceived attention and a greater need to control their thoughts.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (TCC) combines Beck’s cognitive therapy with applied relaxation training. Clinically significant data confirm that applied relaxation and TCC modalities are relatively effective.
Classical cognitive therapy includes
Borkovec TCC includes all the elements mentioned in generic or conventional cognitive behavioral therapy, as well as the following two elements that are part of acceptance and engagement therapy:
Brown, O’Leary and Barlow (1993, 2001) have developed a TAG treatment that includes conceptualizing the problem and justifying treatment, relaxation training, cognitive restructuring, exposure to worrying fears, prevention of safety behaviors and time organization. more detail:
The intervention takes place over 12 to 15 sessions per week of one hour, applied individually given the difficulty of performing the exposure based on group imagination.
The most up-to-date version also adds self-affirmation treatment and medication suspension, and emphasizes the importance of patient family involvement in intervention.
The Dugas Group (Dugas and Koerner, 2005; Dugas and Ladouceur, 1997; Dugas and Robichaud, 2007; Robichaud, 2013) proposed a different type of intervention for TAG, this treatment has undergone some changes over time.
Finally, the patient is encouraged to develop an action plan before completing therapy. You are encouraged to create goals to continue progressing without the help of the therapist.
Wells suggested that GED treatment should focus on raising concerns. Is it a matter of addressing?The intervention includes:
Treatment objective: A review of alternative strategies to address intrusions and stressors that cause concerns to go off.
Finally, we must not forget that any concern is a warning sign, so the way these concerns are raised has a lot to do with our ability to interpret reality and make inferences from the information that comes to us.
So, when this alert system doesn’t work well, either because it activates little or too much, as we saw in this article, the person suffers.