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Understanding anxiety: the science, the experience, and what effective therapy looks like.
Online therapy for anxiety, with a real therapist alongside
Many people with an anxiety disorder find it hard to reach treatment. Cost, distance and waiting times all get in the way. One response has …
Testing Worries in Real Life: A New Treatment for Generalised Anxiety
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is not always easy to treat. Over the past three decades, researchers have developed sophisticated multic…
Screening for Anxiety in Women: What the Evidence Shows
Anxiety disorders are common in adolescent girls and adult women, yet they are often missed during routine health care. A systematic review …
Sudden setbacks in a child's anxiety treatment may be an early warning sign
Progress in therapy rarely follows a straight line. Sometimes symptoms improve sharply between one session and the next, which researchers c…
An AI App for Anxiety: What the Trial Showed, and What It Did Not
A new trial tested whether an AI-powered mental health app could reduce anxiety. Allen and colleagues randomly assigned 316 adults in the UK…
Adding an Antidepressant to Online Therapy Can Improve Outcomes for Social Anxiety
Internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy (ICBT) is an established way to treat social anxiety disorder. It is sometimes combined wit…
Online Therapy for Social Anxiety Works Just as Well as In-Person
Social anxiety disorder often keeps people away from the very treatment that could help, whether because of cost, distance, or the anxiety i…
Why So Many Anxiety Disorders Go Untreated
Anxiety disorders are the most common group of emotional disorders and one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, yet a 2018 review …
Therapy at a Distance: CBT for Anxiety in Older Adults
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is a well-established talking therapy for anxiety. Most of that evidence comes from in-person session…
Computer-Guided Exposure Compared With a Therapist
Exposure therapy is the standard treatment for a specific phobia and it works well. It is also slow, expensive and demanding to deliver, whi…
What Makes an Online Therapy Program Work
Online mental health programs are now easy to find. Whether a given one will help is much harder to judge, partly because for a long time th…
The Added Benefits of Online Therapy, Reviewed
Online therapy programs are usually promoted on more than their clinical results. They are said to be cheaper, available anywhere, available…
When Online CBT Is Free to Anyone
Most research on online therapy studies people who signed up for a trial, were screened, and knew someone would be checking on them. Farvold…
Treating Anxiety and Opioid Use Together: An Honest Early Result
Anxiety disorders are common among people receiving treatment for opioid use disorder, and the combination tends to make recovery harder. Mc…
A Smartphone Program for Constant Worry Did Better Than Expected
Generalised anxiety disorder involves worry that runs most days, across many parts of life, and is hard to switch off. Cognitive behavioural…
One Therapy for Many Anxiety Disorders? A Trial
Panic disorder, social anxiety, generalised anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder have traditionally been treated with separate, purpose…
How Well Does CBT Work for Anxiety? A Meta-Analysis
How well does talking therapy really work for anxiety? A team of researchers went looking for the most demanding evidence they could find: r…
Health Anxiety: When You Fear Being Seriously Ill
Constantly searching symptoms online, convinced that a headache signals a tumour or a stomach ache something life-threatening, is a recognis…
Anxiety Treatment Options, Including Online Therapy
Anxiety is among the most common mental health difficulties worldwide, affecting millions of adults. Research confirms that several effectiv…
Relaxation Techniques for Anxiety in Young People
Anxiety and stress-related difficulties appear to be increasing among children and adolescents, both in primary and secondary school. This p…
Yoga vs Therapy for Anxiety: What a Clinical Trial Found
Many people with anxiety try yoga or mindfulness before considering formal therapy, and the appeal is understandable. It feels gentler, more…
Talking Therapy for Worry: Good News for Older Adults
Worry is a normal part of life, but for some people it becomes constant, difficult to control, and hard to switch off. Generalised Anxiety D…
Metacognitive Therapy vs CBT for Anxiety: A Trial
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, has long been considered the standard treatment for generalised anxiety disorder. It works well for m…
When Worrying About Your Health Becomes the Problem
Most people feel a flutter of worry when they notice something odd about their body. But for some people, that worry doesn't go away — it gr…
Normal Worry or an Anxiety Disorder? A Parent's Guide
Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in young people — research shows it affects roughly 1 in 12 children and as many as 1 in 4 …
Generalised Anxiety vs Panic Disorder: What Helps
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder are two of the most common mental health conditions seen in adults, and they often sho…
One in Three Will Experience an Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety disorders are common. Research reviewing the evidence puts the lifetime prevalence at approximately 34 per cent in the US, meaning r…