Understanding and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents
Rates of anxiety difficulties have increased over time, particularly among teenagers and there are long waits for treatment within services. Current treatments are typically ‘one-size fits all’ cognitive behavioural therapy applied across anxiety disorders and wide age groups, producing remission in only around half children and young people. In contrast, studies in adults have demonstrated that treatments developed to specifically target established cognitive mechanisms are highly effective with much greater rates of remission. This talk will focus on the work that we have been doing examining key maintenance factors for anxiety disorders in adolescents that are not addressed as standard in treatment and then present our work developing and evaluating brief, developmentally informed, targeted cognitive therapy.
To join the seminar on zoom:
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Meeting ID :867 6885 3050
Passcode: 025678
Date:
17 February 2025, 14:00
Venue:
New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details:
2nd floor seminar rooms, lift available
Speaker:
Dr Polly Waite (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organiser:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
hod.office@psy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Anne-Marie Honeyman-Tafa
