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| ADAA | The Anxiety Disorders Association of America is an organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders and works to improve the quality of life of individuals who suffer from them. This web site is geared toward both individuals who struggle with anxiety disorders as well as professionals who work with them. ADAA has a nationwide referral network for individuals hoping to connect with health professions who specialize in anxiety disorders, and the web site lists information about clinical trials that are being conducted around the country. In addition, this web site has information about several grants and awards for anxiety researchers as well as groundbreaking news that is relevant to this field. Moreover, this web site also includes information about its annual meeting that generally takes place in the last week of March, a gathering that includes both professionals and consumers.
| | ADAM | This is the official web site of the Anxiety Disorders Association of Manitoba, which is a self-help, non-profit association committed to helping individuals who struggle with anxiety disorders. The society offers cognitive behavioral groups, ongoing support groups, information and referral service, and education and public awareness. In addition, it provides information about the major anxiety disorders as well as relevant facts and a description of causes and treatment of anxiety disorders.
| | Adult Anxiety Clinic | This is the web site of the Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University (AACT) located in Philadelphia, PA. The AACT is a specialty clinic devoted to providing efficacious treatments for anxiety and to increasing our understanding of the nature of the anxiety disorders. The site describes our social anxiety (social phobia) and generalized anxiety (worry) programs. Cognitive behavioral and pharmacological treatments are available.
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| Anxiety Coach |
This site is dedicated to helping people who have significant trouble with fears, phobias, and anxiety. We offer free self help information you can use to foster your own recovery; a workbook for people with panic attacks and phobias; professional treatment services in the Chicago area; a free email newsletter on anxiety topics; telephone consultations with Dr. Carbonell for people who live in under-served areas; a listing of workshops and training for professional therapists who want to know more about treating anxiety; and more. |
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| Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University | The Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple University is devoted to increasing our understanding of the nature of the anxiety disorders and to the empirical evaluation of methods for their treatment. Programs are in place for the cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) of persons with social anxiety disorder (social phobia) and for integrated cognitive behavioral and emotion regulation therapy for persons with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Cognitive behavioral treatment is also available on a more limited basis for persons with other anxiety disorders, and the Adult Anxiety Clinic sometimes conducts medication trials as well. All potential clients (ages 18 and above) receive thorough diagnostic interviews and assessments in advance of the making of treatment recommendations. Clinicians interested in referring a potential client for assessment or treatment are welcome to call 215-204-1575. Persons seeking clinical services may also call this number and will be asked to complete a brief telephone screening interview before scheduling an initial appointment. Services are provided on a sliding scale, and participation in certain funded research studies may be without charge.
| | Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center | This is the web site of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center, an organization that offers services in the Chicago area. This site describes the treatment approach used by this center, which involves empirically supported interventions such as cognitive theory and exposure.
| | Anxiety and Phobia Peer Support Group | This web site belongs to the Anxiety and Phobia Peer Support Group. It includes a message board, affirmations, testimonials from individuals who have coped successfully with anxiety, answers to frequently asked questions, titles of books, and a list of resources.
| | Anxiety Care | This web site describes a peer counseling organization based in London that uses volunteers to help individuals with anxiety disorders to recover, usually by devising programs for gradual exposure. This organization provides one-on-one peer counseling, support groups, online resources, and a chat room. There are also descriptions of various anxiety disorders with facts from current research.
| | Anxiety Disorders Association of British Columbia | This is the official web site of the Anxiety Disorders Association of British Columbia, a society dedicated to providing education about anxiety disorders as well as promoting the development of new treatments and knowledge about anxiety disorders. This site includes a self-test to screen for the potential anxiety disorders as well as stories about members who have suffered from anxiety disorders. In addition, the site archives past issues of the society’s newsletters, and it provides links pertaining to current issues relating to anxiety disorders in Canada.
| | Anxiety Disorders Association of Ontario | This is the web site of the Anxiety Disorders Association of Ontario, a society whose activities are geared toward consumers. In addition to describing each of the anxiety disorders in detail, this site provides information about causes of anxiety disorders, treatment, coping skills, medications, medical conditions associated with anxiety disorders, and issues to consider when treatment is unsuccessful. The site describes a 12-week program to treat anxiety disorders as well as additional educational and support group opportunities.
| | Anxiety Disorders Center | The Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living is a treatment and
research site specializing in cognitive-behavioral therapy and experimental
analyses of anxiety-related problems. Current research programs include:
Behavior therapy for medication nonresponders with obsessive-compulsive
disorder, Counseling for treatment-ambivalent OCD patients,
Cognitive-behavioral treatment of pediatric trichotillomania, and cognitive
processes in anxiety disorders.
| | Anxiety Disorders Clinic | The Anxiety Disorders Clinic is a doctoral training clinic and research center at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The clinic, directed by Michael Petronko, Ph.D., AABP, offers evaluations and state of the art psychological treatment for adults, children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. The clinic also offers a support group for individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, their family and loved ones, and subspecializes in the evaluation and treatment of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, including body dysmorphic disorder, hoarding and trichotillomania. Clinic staff supports a comprehensive approach to mental health treatment. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is offered in a flexible and supportive format, so that therapy is individually tailored to each clients needs. For more information, please contact Jennifer Greenberg, Psy.M., at 732-445-5384.
| | Anxiety Disorders Clinic and Cyberpsy Lab | Our anxiety disorders clinic and research lab are affiliated with the Centre Hospitalier Pierre-Janet and the University du Quebec en Outaouais. The clinic is directed by Jeanne Talbot and offers treatment for all anxiety disorders via refferals from doctors in the Gatineau Area. The Cyberpsychology Lab, and the Canada Research Chairs in Clinical Cyberpsychology directed by Stephane Bouchard, is conducting research on the use of technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and videoconference (telepsychotherapy) in the treatment of anxiety disorders. The very close collaboration between the Clinic and the Lab allows to deliver CBT to children, adolescents and adults, to conduct outcome and process studies, to investigate the role of dimensions such as presence and emotions in VR, and to offer supervision to 3 to 5 interns per year.
| | Anxiety Disorders Laboratories | These laboratories conduct research on anxiety disorders from a cognitive-behavioural perspective. Although Drs. Dugas and Radomsky each have specific areas of interest, they also collaborate on a number of research projects. Dr. Radomsky's research primarily relates to cognitive processes involved in anxiety disorders with a focus on memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Other interests include investigations of panic disorder models and of the interplay between information processing and fear/anxiety. Dr. Dugas’ main area of interest is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). His research has lead to the development of a cognitive model of GAD, and to the elaboration and validation of a cognitive-behavioural treatment for GAD. Dr. Dugas also studies the treatment of comorbid anxiety disorders. Both laboratories focus on cognitive-behavioural conceptualizations of and treatments for anxiety and related disorders. Other Problems of interest include: specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders, and impulse control disorders.
Contact:
Dr. Michel J. Dugas: dugas@vax2.concordia.ca
Dr. Adam S. Radomsky: radomsky@vax2.concordia.ca
| | Anxiety Disorders Research Program | Research is a dynamic and interactive process of
exploration and discovery, with the process being just as
important as the outcomes achieved. We are committed
to the systematic exploration of learning and
psychological processes that, either in whole or in part,
contribute to the etiology, maintenance, and treatment
of fear and anxiety-related disorders. We view anxiety
disorders as a means to understand
psychological and experiential factors that contribute to
human suffering more generally. Understanding
anxiety disorders as such is not an end in itself.
Our laboratory staff are quite active and are involved in
three related activities that make up the integrated
mission of the laboratory. First, we are committed to
struggling with theoretical, philosophical, and conceptual
issues, and to clarifying their role in our activities, and
more broadly as they relate to human suffering, behavior
change, and mechanisms of action. Much of this activity
occurs within a contextual/behavioral framework.
Second, we are committed to using basic science and
laboratory work as a means to better understand a
variety of factors that contribute to the etiology and
maintenance of anxiety-related disorders, but more
importantly to achieving a better understanding of core
processes and factors that contribute to psychological
suffering and psychopathology. Much of this work is
firmly grounded in the broad area of behavioral science
and experimental psychopathology. Third, we seek to
integrate our conceptual and theoretical analysis with our
basic experimental psychopathology research, and to
apply this knowledge to the advancement of more
efficacious treatments to alleviate anxiety and fear-related
disorders. Thus, our third component involves the
integration of basic and applied assessment and
treatment activities with persons suffering from anxiety-
related disorders. The outcomes of our assessment and
treatment activities at this level is brought back to the
laboratory to better understand the active ingredients in
successful outcome via basic laboratory and conceptual
activities. Students in the laboratory are actively involved
in all three phases of our basic mission and contribute to
a viable and productive ongoing program of research;
some of which is funded by NIMH. Finally, we enjoy our
work tremendously and maintain that basic psychological
science can inform clinical practice, and that clinical
practice activities should also inform behavioral science.
| | Anxiety-Panic Search Engine | This site is a search engine for anxiety and related conditions. It contains links for the following categories: (a) general information, (b) books & journals, (c) chat rooms, mail lists, & news, (d) groups, (e) culture and people, (f) clinics and doctors, (g) therapists, (h) medications, (i) herbs, diets, substances, (j) self-help. (k) spiritual & alternative, (l) organizations, (m) disability, law, politics, and (n) commercial sites.
| | Anxietypanic.com | The Anxiety/Panic Attack Resource Site is a somewhat confusing web site that provides a number of resources for individuals who suffer from anxiety disorders. It contains a message board, listserv, and guestbook. Moreover, it has descriptions of some (but not all) major anxiety disorders and an impressive list of descriptions of medications used to treat anxiety disorders. It also has a search engine for business and legal resources as well as physicians associated with the American Medical Association. There is a unique description of the “journey” of one individual through a panic attack.
| | Baltimorepsych.com | This web site contains information about the nature and treatment of a number of anxiety disorders, including separation anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, shyness and social phobia, agoraphobia, and anxiety in the elderly. The creators of this web site also describe a number of related conditions, such as depression and body dysmorphic disorder, as well as provide links for other related sites.
| | Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders | This is the official web site of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, directed by David Barlow. This site provides descriptions of the disorders treated at this clinic, including generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobias, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and a number of male and female sexual disorders. It also describes special treatment programs provided at the clinic for adult disorders, childhood and adolescent disorders, and disorders of sexuality.
| | Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders | This is the official web site of the Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders at the State University of New York at Albany. The site describes current research programs in posttraumatic stress disorder, chronic benign headache, irritable bowel syndrome, pathological gambling, aggressive driving, and the nature and phenomenology of panic disorder.
| | Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety | The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania is dedicated to research and treatment of anxiety disorders. It offers programs that are specifically designed to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), especially following rape and other violent criminal assaults, social anxiety, and trichotillomania (hair-pulling). The Center also offers training programs for physicians, psychologists and other health professionals from around the world.
The Center, founded in 1979, is directed by Edna B. Foa, Ph.D.,an internationally renowned expert in anxiety disorders. It is a division of the University's Department of Psychiatry, and is located on the campusof the University of Pennsylvania in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Center is an internationally recognized research and clinical facility which offers state-of-the-art psychotherapy and medications. The center is awarded grants from the National Institute of Mental Health as wellas from various pharmaceutical companies, to conduct that emphasizes thedevelopment of new, efficient, and effective treatments for anxiety and stress disorders.
The Center's faculty members have extensive experience in cognitive-behavioral treatment techniques and available pharmacological options.We welcome referrals from professionals and inquiries directly from patients.
| | Claustrophobia Treatment Project | Claustrophobic participants (ages 18-65) are invited to contact the Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders to participate in a free treatment study.
| | Clinical Research and Development Program | The Regina Health District's Clinical Research and Development Program
(CRDP) is located at the Wascana Rehabilitation Center, Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada. The CRDP consists of 8 staff members (Director,
Research Scientist, 3 Research Associates, 2 Research Assistants, and a
Confidential Secretary) and 11 external research associates through out
Canada (British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba). The CRDP has been
actively researching anxiety and fear for several years. Specifically, the
CRDP has investigated the roles that anxiety disorders, anxiety sensitivity,
and health anxiety play in a variety of populations (e.g., chronic pain,
children, traumatic brain injury, and victims of motor vehicle accidents).
| | Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Program for Anxiety and Depression |
| | Freedoe from Fear | This is a comprehensive site that provides information about anxiety disorders and depression as well as referrals to professionals who are registered with this organization. It includes an online questionnaire to screen for anxiety and depression, a message board, general tips for maintaining well being, and a long list of ongoing treatment studies for which participants are being recruited. The site also lists a number of national and local events of interest. Freedom From Fear organizes the National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day held every May.
| | McMaster University Medical Centre | This is the official web site of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, Ontario. It provides information about the anxiety disorders, suggests several books for various anxiety disorders, provides links to other resources, describes treatment services in Canada, and highlights anxiety disorders in the news. Moreover, it describes ongoing studies that are being conducted by professionals associated with this clinic.
| | National Phobics Society | This is the web site of the National Phobics Society, an organization composed of members who suffer from a variety of anxiety disorders. This organization provides a number of services to its members, such as newsletters, discounts on treatment (both cognitive behavioral therapy as well as other treatments not endorsed by the Anxiety SIG), self-help groups, fact sheets, phone-in sessions, and online services.
| | Social Anxiety Treatment and Research | Research site focusing on Social Anxiety. Drexel University offers free treatment for people who qualify for their research program. The site also provides information on social anxiety and ways to find a therapist.
| | Social Anxiety Treatment Program | The MCP Hahnemann University Social Phobia Program provides treatment free of charge to eligible participants through the University's Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Treatment is provided both in groups and individually. Since people with social phobia also frequently experience depression, the program addresses depression as well when appropriate.
To learn more about the program, please call (215) 762-FEAR and leave your name and telephone number. A therapist will return your call promptly.
| | The Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory (AHRL) | The Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory (AHRL) is an experimental psychopathology research laboratory designed for the study of core emotional processes involved with anxiety-related disorders. It is a teaching laboratory, with an explicit focus on training advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the development of scientific values and skills. All work conducted in the AHRL maintains an explicit “translational” framework, based on the assumption that basic research on emotion processes will directly inform pressing clinical questions. At the same time, this translational approach explicitly recognizes how the careful study of psychopathological states can serve to improve our understanding of basic emotion processes. The vast majority of work conducted in the AHRL focuses on emotion reactivity and regulatory processes in response to physical and other types of interoceptive stress, with direct implications for better understanding the development and maintenance of panic disorder. This research attempts to understand emotion processes from a scientific focus that capitalizes on the controlled production of important clinical processes, examination of such phenomena from multiple perspectives and with multiple measures, and discussion of these phenomena with reference across levels of analysis. Growing aspects of this research program include directly testing how panic-related distress affects the course of a variety of physical illnesses, and how empirically supported intervention strategies for panic disorder can be implemented at a community level for prevention purposes.
| | The Center for the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression | The Center for the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression at the
Pennsylvania State University is devoted to basic and applied
research on adult and child anxiety and mood disorders. The Center
is staffed by experts in the field who have been influential in
researching basic underlying mechanisms related to these disorders
and in developing effective and empirically supported treatments for
individuals suffering from these psychological difficulties. The
Center houses several current projects and plans additional future
research programs. Current projects include (a) an NIMH-funded
therapy outcome investigation of adult generalized anxiety disorder;
(b) research programs on adult social anxiety, panic disorder,
post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and
major depression; (c) research on child development and prevention
within the Child Study Center, with special emphasis on integrating
research on typical and atypical development into effective
applications; and (d) child and adult therapy outcome and process
research within the psychological training clinic of the Department
of Psychology. Future programs in development include (a) the
creation of a Clinics Practice Research Network facilitating
collaborative research among psychological training clinics
throughout the country, (b) scientifically rigorous intervention
research within the established Pennsylvania Practice Research
Network; and (c) a Practice Research Network Infrastructure grant to
be submitted to NIMH to support the creation of a National Practice
Research Network among mental health agencies throughout the country.
Clinical scientists participating in this treatment center include
Peter Arnett (paa6@psu.edu), Tom Borkovec (tdb@psu.edu), Louis
Castonguay (lgc3@psu.edu), Pamela Cole (pmc5 @psu.edu), Keith Crnic
(kac8@psu.edu), Jean Dumas (jed20@psu.edu), Michelle Newman
(mgn1@psu.edu), and Brian Rabian (bar25@psu.edu).
| | The Child Anxiety Network | This site contains better than average descriptions about the nature of child anxiety, specific childhood anxiety disorders, and descriptions of the types of anxiety that are normal in children. It contains quality lists of resources for both parents and professionals. In addition, this site describes innovative treatments for childhood anxiety (and includes references in some cases). Suggestions for educational and therapeutic toys are included. The site also contains names and addresses of professionals around the country who specialize in the treatment of childhood anxiety. Overall, this is a helpful site for professionals, parents, and teachers.
| | The Ross Center | This web site describes the anxiety disorders treatment center established by Jerilyn Ross, the president and CEO of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. It includes information about each of the anxiety disorders, describes the types of treatment provided by the Ross Center (located in Washington D.C.), and lists some self-help resources.
| | Virtually Better | Virtually Better specializes in virtual reality in the treatment of anxiety and behavioral medicine. Virtually Better includes a computer science lab that develops virtual environments and a psychology research lab that tests the efficacy of virtual reality as applied to behavioral health issues. Clinical trials have been conducted for specific phobia, panic disorder, agoraphobia (fear of heights/fear of flying), trauma (combat-related PTSD), and as a distracter for painful medical procedures in a pediatric oncology setting. Virtually Better is currently conducting a federally-funded study that examines virtual reality in the treatment of public speaking anxiety. Virtually Better also maintains an active practice that specializes in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety.
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