Looming Vulnerability Theory, Research and Practice in Anxiety /

This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat. The core feature of the model-the perception of growing, rapidly approaching threat-is traced to humans&...

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Main Author: Riskind, John H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York , 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Clinical psychology.
Psychotherapy .
Social work.
ISBN:9781493987825
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Evolutionary and Ecological Functions of Dynamic: Perceptions of Looming Danger
  • Dynamic Information is Integral to Perception, Cognition and Emotion
  • Basic Postulates of the Looming Vulnerability Model
  • Dynamic Gains in Growing Threat and Threat Appraisal
  • Effects of Moving and Looming Stimuli on Attention, Memory, and Fear Conditioning
  • Experimental Studies Confirming the Emotional Impact of Dynamic Movement and Looming Manipulations
  • Introduction to Looming Cognitive Style: Construct and Measurement
  • Developmental Antecedents of the LCS, the LCS as an Overarching Theme of Anxiety, and Cognitive Vulnerability-Stress Interaction
  • Looming Cognitive Style Contributes to Etiological Processes in Anxiety Disorders
  • Looming Vulnerability in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Looming Vulnerability in Panic Disorder and the Phobias
  • Looming Vulnerability in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Exploring Potential Links between Looming Vulnerability and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • CBT for Reducing Looming Vulnerability Distortions: Translational Concepts and Clinical Applications
  • New Directions in Research: Anxiety and Beyond
  • Final Synthesis and Conclusions.

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