Generalized Anxiety Disorder Case Study

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In this study Browin Bandelow, Reinhard J. Boerner, Siegfried Kasper, Michael Linden, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, and Hans-Jürgen Möller examine different forms of treatment for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). They begin by mentioning the most common and recognizable symptoms of GAD. They then breakdown the possible causes of the disorder in children. The main focus of the paper is to inform you on the positives and negatives of different treatments. The first treatment talked about is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This is just the process of teaching coping methods and self-therapeutic activities to maintain anxiety disorders. They state that this is effective in milder cases. After this they list other psychotherapy options similar to

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