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Anxiety Management Training for Anxiety States: Positive Compared with Negative Self-Statements

1982; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 140; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/bjp.140.4.367

1472-1465

Elizabeth Ramm, Isaac Marks, Richard Stern, Şahika Yüksel,

Digital Mental Health Interventions

Summary Twelve patients complaining of chronic free-floating anxiety, usually also with panic attacks, were assigned at random to treatment by six hour-long sessions of anxiety-management training, either with positive or with negative self-statements, given over six weeks. Patients in both treatment conditions improved, with a small trend favouring positive over negative self-instruction, especially at follow-up. It is unclear how much self-instruction, rather than therapeutic attention or mere passage of time, accounted for the bulk of the modest improvement obtained.