Search for dissertations about: "Lars-göran Öst"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Lars-göran Öst.

  2. 1. Intervening Stress Recovery Behaviors in Everyday Life

    Author : Niclas Almén; Örjan Sundin; Lars-Göran Öst; Lars Göran Kecklund; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Background. High levels of perceived stress and stress-related ill health, such as burnout, are common in many countries. Several theories postulate that stress behaviors promote adaption to environmental changes and if sustained they are potentially harmful for the body. In accordance, impaired stress recovery behaviors, i. READ MORE

  4. 2. Mode of acquisition of phobias

    Author : Lars-Göran Öst; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

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  5. 3. Experimental studies in behaviour therapy

    Author : Lars-Göran Öst; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  6. 4. Social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents : assessment, maintaining factors, and treatment

    Author : Rio Cederlund; Lars-Göran Öst; Samantha Cartwright-Hatton; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social anxiety disorder; youth; behavior therapy; parent involvement; assessment; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : The present dissertation consists of three empirical studies on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in a sample of Swedish children and adolescents. Based on findings made in a large behavior treatment study, the thesis contributes to the field of research on childhood SAD by investigating a factor that maintains the disorder, ways to measure and screen for diagnosis, and the treatment of the disorder. READ MORE

  7. 5. Does the way in which we perceive the world make us susceptible to anxiety?

    Author : Billy Jansson; Lars-Göran Öst; Lars-Gunnar Lundh; Marcel Van den Hout; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Preattentive processing; selective attention; trait anxiety; defensiveness; emotional responses; emotional vulnerability; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : One major focus of anxiety research in recent years has been the identification of cognitive factors that promote increased vulnerability to anxiety. Cognitive formulations propose that anxiety is characterised by an increased tendency to attend to negatively valenced emotional information, and that this bias may play a causal role in the development and maintenance of clinical anxiety. READ MORE