Generalized Anxiety Disorder

By Jillian Thomas. The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders, 2004

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The chapter discusses generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), a chronic state of excessive, uncontrollable anxiety and worry about a number of different events and activities. Generalized anxiety co-occurs with depression at very high rates and shares the same genetic risk factors. After an overview of this disorder, its developmental features, and the main risk factors identified in the epidemiological literature, the chapter critically reviews existing evolutionary models and suggests new directions for research. The final section applies the criteria developed earlier in the book to classify the disorder within the fast-slow-defense (FSD) model. The author concludes that GAD can be classified as a defense activation (D-type) condition.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Emotion Regulation Therapy: An Integrative Approach to Treatment-Resistant Anxiety Disorders (2006, background): “…model Despite its association with significant impairment and life dissatisfaction, increased health care utilization, increased health care costs and decreased productivity (Kessler, 2004), GAD remains an understudied (Dugas, 2000) and treatmentresistant (Borkovec & Ruscio, 2001) disorder.”
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