Phobic Disorders - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli.

30 Jul 2009 This study investigated M. Linehan's (1993) theory that individuals meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) have high biological vulnerability to emotion dysregulation, including high baseline emotional intensity and high ... Read more...

The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE): translation and validation study of the Iranian version.

7 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE) is a commonly used instrument to measure social anxiety. This study aimed to translate and to test the reliability and validity of the BFNE in Iran. METHODS: The English language version ... Read more...

Do parental psychopathology and unfavorable family environment predict the persistence of social phobia?

3 Jul 2009 Parental psychopathology and unfavorable family environment are established risk factors for onset of offspring social phobia (SP), but their associations with the further course, e.g., persistence of the disorder, remain understudied. A community ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Phobic Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. 30 Jul 2009
• The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE): translation and validation study of the Iranian version. 7 Jul 2009
• Do parental psychopathology and unfavorable family environment predict the persistence of social phobia? 3 Jul 2009
• The impact of nasal reconstruction following tumour resection on psychosocial functioning, a clinical-empirical exploration. 29 Jun 2009
• Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend. 29 Jun 2009
• Little Hans: masculinity foretold. 29 Jun 2009
• Defense style changes with the addition of psychodynamic group therapy to clonazepam in social anxiety disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• Does the form or the amount of exposure make a difference in the cognitive-behavioral therapy treatment of social phobia? 29 Jun 2009
• Asthma and social anxiety in adolescents. 22 Jun 2009
• The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children. 19 Jun 2009
• Rates and predictors of remission in young women with specific phobia: a prospective community study. 16 Jun 2009
• Shyness and face scanning in children. 8 Jun 2009
• A multi-ethnic examination of socioevaluative fears. 7 Jun 2009
• Retrospective reports of behavioral inhibition and young adults' current symptoms of social anxiety, depression, and anxious arousal. 4 Jun 2009
• A self-report measure of subtle avoidance and safety behaviors relevant to social anxiety: development and psychometric properties. 4 Jun 2009
• Social fears during adolescence: is there an increase in distress and avoidance? 4 Jun 2009
• Perceptions of paranoid thoughts in a nonclinical group of college students. 30 May 2009
• Robophobia in IRobot. 30 May 2009
• One-session treatment of specific phobias in youth: a randomized clinical trial in the United States and Sweden. 30 May 2009
• How long should a trial of escitalopram treatment be in patients with major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder or social anxiety disorder? An exploration of the randomised controlled trial database. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Phobic Disorders'

Definition: Anxiety disorders in which the essential feature is persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that the individual feels compelled to avoid. The individual recognizes the fear as excessive or unreasonable.

Descriptor UI: D010698

Alternative terms: Phobic Disorders; Disorder, Phobic; Disorders, Phobic; Phobic Disorder; Phobic Neuroses; Neuroses, Phobic; Phobias; Phobia; Phobia, School; Phobias, School; School Phobia; School Phobias; Phobia, Social; Phobias, Social; Social Phobia; Social Phobias; Claustrophobia; Claustrophobias;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.080.725;

Online Note: use PHOBIC DISORDERS to search PHOBIAS 1966-80, PHOBIC NEUROSES 1969-80, & CLAUSTROPHOBIA 1968-78

History Note: 81; was PHOBIAS 1963-80; PHOBIC NEUROSES was see under PHOBIAS 1969-80; CLAUSTROPHOBIA was see under PHOBIAS 1968-78