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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' evolutionary past, and this
dysfunctional perception is described as it affects cognitive
processing, executive functioning, emotions, physiology, and
behavior. The LVM framework allows for more subtle understanding of
mechanisms of and risk factors for the range of anxiety disorders
as well as for more elusive subclinical forms of anxiety, worry,
and fear. In addition, the authors ably demonstrate how the LVM can
inform and refine cognitive-behavioral and other approaches to
conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of these often
disabling conditions. This important volume: * Introduces the
Looming Vulnerability Model in its evolutionary, developmental,
cognitive, and ecological contexts. * Unites diverse theoretical
strands regarding anxiety, fear, and worry including work on
wildlife behavior, experimental cognition and perception,
neuroimaging, and emotion. * Defines the looming cognitive style as
a core aspect of vulnerability. * Describes the measurement of the
looming cognitive style, Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire,
and measures of looming vulnerability for specific disorders. *
Details diverse clinical applications of the LVM across the anxiety
disorders. Spotlighting phenomena particularly relevant to current
times, Looming Vulnerability, brings a wealth of important new
ideas to researchers studying anxiety disorders and practitioners
seeking more avenues for treating anxiety in their patients.
Emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression, and dysfunctional
patterns of eating are clearly among the most devastating and
prevalent confronting practitioners, and they have received much
attention from researchers--in personality, social, cognitive, and
developmental psychology, as well as in clinical psychology and
psychiatry. A major recent focus has been cognitive vulnerability,
which seems to set the stage for recurrences of symptoms and
episodes. In the last five years there has been a rapid
proliferation of studies.
In this book, leading experts present the first broad synthesis of
what we have now learned about the nature, of cognitive factors
that seem to play a crucial role in creating and maintaining
vulnerability across the spectrum of emotional disorders. An
introductory chapter considers theory and research design and
methodology and constructs a general conceptual framework for
understanding and studying the relationships between developmental
and cognitive variables and later risk, and the difference between
distal cognitive antecedents of disorders (e.g. depressive
inferential styles, dysfunctional attitudes) and proximal ones
(e.g. schema activation or inferences). Subsequent chapters are
organized into three sections, on mood, anxiety, and eating
disorders. Each section ends with an integrative overview chapter
that offers both incisive commentary and insightful suggestions for
further systematic research.
A rich resource for all those professionally concerned with these
problems, "Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders" advances
both clinical science and clinical practice.
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' evolutionary past, and this
dysfunctional perception is described as it affects cognitive
processing, executive functioning, emotions, physiology, and
behavior. The LVM framework allows for more subtle understanding of
mechanisms of and risk factors for the range of anxiety disorders
as well as for more elusive subclinical forms of anxiety, worry,
and fear. In addition, the authors ably demonstrate how the LVM can
inform and refine cognitive-behavioral and other approaches to
conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of these often
disabling conditions. This important volume: * Introduces the
Looming Vulnerability Model in its evolutionary, developmental,
cognitive, and ecological contexts. * Unites diverse theoretical
strands regarding anxiety, fear, and worry including work on
wildlife behavior, experimental cognition and perception,
neuroimaging, and emotion. * Defines the looming cognitive style as
a core aspect of vulnerability. * Describes the measurement of the
looming cognitive style, Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire,
and measures of looming vulnerability for specific disorders. *
Details diverse clinical applications of the LVM across the anxiety
disorders. Spotlighting phenomena particularly relevant to current
times, Looming Vulnerability, brings a wealth of important new
ideas to researchers studying anxiety disorders and practitioners
seeking more avenues for treating anxiety in their patients.
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