Anxiety disorders cognitive-behavioral therapy

As with panic disorder, cognitive-behavioral therapy is an important part of the treatment program for social anxiety disorder. Some evidence suggests that in some cases, drug treatment did not improve the effects of receiving cognitive-behavior therapy. 

Standardized cognitive behavioral therapy manuals, which ensure adherence to a treatment protocol, have been developed for many different anxiety disorders, including phobias, generalized anxiety, panic, social anxiety, Agoraphobia,... 

Kendall, P.C. and Southam-Gerow, M.A. (1996) Long-term followup of a cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety-disordered youths. / Consult Clin Psychol 64 724-730. 

Silverman, W.K., Kurtines, W.M., Ginsburg, G.S., Weems, C.E, Lumpkin, P.W., and Carmichael, D.El. (1999b) Treating anxiety disorders in children with group cognitive behavior therapy a randomized clinical trial. J Consult Clin Psychol 67 995-1003. 

Belanger L, Morin CM, Langlois F, Ladouceur R (2004) Insomnia and generalized anxiety disorder effects of cognitive behavior therapy for gad on insomnia symptoms. J Anxiety Disord 18 561-571... 

Although anxiety disorders, when untreated, can be the cause of substantial personal suffering, disability, and marital and family disruption, the progress made in the therapeutic area for conditions like panic disorder, OCD, and GAD, among other anxiety disorders, makes these conditions very gratifying to treat. Indeed, the skillful use of psychotherapies—cognitive-behavioral therapies appear to be most effective—and medications can produce dramatic and lasting improvement in many patients. 

In 488 children and adolescents (aged 7-17 years) with an anxiety disorder who were randomized to 12 weeks of sertraline up to 200 mg/day, cognitive behavioral therapy, the combination of these, or placebo, suicidal and homicidal ideation were no more common with sertraline than placebo no child attempted suicide [9 ]. 

Otto MW, Pollack MH, Gould RA, et al. A comparison of the efficacy of clonazepam and cognitive-behavioral group therapy for the treatment of social phobia. J Anxiety Disord 2000 14 345-358. 

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