Avoidance Theory of Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

By T. Borkovec, Oscar M. Alcaine, Evelyn Behar. 2004

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Emotion Regulation Flexibility (2014, background): “…utilized with a wide range of strategies, such as acceptance (e.g., Hayes et al. 1999), rumination (e.g., Nolen-Hoeksema et al. 2008), worry (e.g., Borkovec et al. 2004), self-injury (e.g., Nock 2010), and emotional eating (e.g., Aldao and Dixon-Gordon 2014), among others. meant to represent a…”
Cognitive Control in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Relation of Inhibition Impairments to Worry and Anxiety Severity (2017, background): “Price and Mohlman (2007) frame their discussion of inhibition within the avoidance theory of worry and GAD (Borkovec et al. 2004; Borkovec and Inz 1990), which proposes that individuals with GAD engage in verbal-linguistic worry in order to inhibit the processing of more emotionally evocative imager”
Emotion Dysregulation in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Comparison with Social Anxiety Disorder (2005, background): “Borkovec, Alcaine, and Behar (2004) synthesize these findings by suggesting that worry allows the individual to process emotional material at an abstract, conceptual level and avoid aversive images, autonomic arousal, and intense negative emotions in the short-run.”
A contemporary learning theory perspective on the etiology of anxiety disorders: it's not what you thought it was. (2006, background): “Borkovec (1994) and colleagues (e.g., Borkovec et al., 2004) have incorporated ideas from learning theory to help explain why worry is such a persistent process.”
The Role of Experiential Avoidance in the Relationship Between Maladaptive Perfectionism and Worry (2007, methodology): “Borkovec, Alcaine, and Behar (2004) propose that worry is a cognitive process serving the function of avoidance.”
Rethinking Rumination (2008, background): “In contrast to the conscious functions of worry, Borkovec and colleagues (Borkovec, 1979; Borkovec et al., 2004) argue that the nonconscious function of worry is to avoid confronting core negative affect and aversive images.”
Mental imagery in anxiety disorders (2007, background): “Borkovec and colleagues (12) have proposed that people with GAD will have brief images of their fears.”
Emotion Regulation Therapy: An Integrative Approach to Treatment-Resistant Anxiety Disorders (2006, background): “This emotion regulation perspective builds upon the foundational work of Borkovec and his colleagues in their examination of worry in GAD (for a review, see Borkovec et al., 2004).”
Preliminary evidence for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder. (2005, background): “…argue that worry allows individuals to approach emotional topics at an abstract, conceptual level and, consequently, to avoid aversive images, autonomic arousal, and intense negative emotions in the short-run (for a review of numerous studies in support of this view, see Borkovec et al., 2004).”
Evidence of Broad Deficits in Emotion Regulation Associated with Chronic Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (2006, background): “This theory is an integration of empirical evidence that worry interferes with the physiological (Borkovec & Hu, 1990) and subjective (Wells & Papageorgiou, 1995) components of the emotional response, and is consistent with evidence that worry, as a verbal-linguistic activity, is relatively isolated”