Safety-Seeking Behaviours: Fact or Function? How Can We Clinically Differentiate Between Safety Behaviours and Adaptive Coping Strategies Across Anxiety Disorders?

By R. Thwaites, M. Freeston. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005

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Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach (2006, background): “…than trying to identify these processes as distorted cognitions/behaviours or maladaptive, we frame them in the language of safety behaviours (Kim, 2005; Salkovskis, 1996; Thwaites & Freeston, 2005); that is, people are doing the best they can to regulate painful situations, memories and emotions.”
Conceptualizing Empathy in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Making the Implicit Explicit (2007, unknown): “For example, whilst it is possible that a non-empathic therapist could work with a client to drop safety behaviours that are maintaining anxiogenic beliefs and subsequent problems (Thwaites and Freeston, 2005), it is likely to be far more effective if the therapist can communicate an awareness of ho”