Search for dissertations about: "Lars-Göran Öst"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Lars-Göran Öst.
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1. Intervening Stress Recovery Behaviors in Everyday Life
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
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2. Mode of acquisition of phobias
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3. Experimental studies in behaviour therapy
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4. Social anxiety disorder in children and adolescents : assessment, maintaining factors, and treatment
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
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5. Does the way in which we perceive the world make us susceptible to anxiety?
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