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| Maree J AbbottSummaryAffiliation: Macquarie University Country: Australia Publications
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Post-event rumination and negative self-appraisal in social phobia before and after treatmentMaree J Abbott
Department of Psychology, Marquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Abnorm Psychol 113:136-44. 2004..Treatment improved perceptions of performance and reduced negative rumination. These results are discussed in the light of cognitive models of social phobia...
Evaluating the cognitive avoidance model of generalised anxiety disorder: impact of worry on threat appraisal, perceived control and anxious arousalLexine A Stapinski
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Behav Res Ther 48:1032-40. 2010..These findings highlight the need for clarification of the mechanisms involved in the maintenance of threat associations and worry in GAD...- A self-report measure of subtle avoidance and safety behaviors relevant to social anxiety: development and psychometric propertiesSamantha Cuming
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 23:879-83. 2009..Given its excellent psychometric properties, the SAFE may be useful to further investigate the role of safety strategies in social anxiety and to assess treatment outcomes... - Testing the efficacy of theoretically derived improvements in the treatment of social phobiaRonald M Rapee
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:317-27. 2009..Changes on these process variables mediated differences between the treatments on changes in diagnostic severity... - Self-perception and rumination in social anxietyJudy B Zou
School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Behav Res Ther 50:250-7. 2012..The results are discussed in relation to current cognitive models of social phobia and both treatment implications and directions for future research are explored... - Treatment of social phobia through pure self-help and therapist-augmented self-helpRonald M Rapee
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Br J Psychiatry 191:246-52. 2007..Self-help for social phobia has not received controlled empirical evaluation... - Modelling relationships between cognitive variables during and following public speaking in participants with social phobiaRonald M Rapee
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Behav Res Ther 45:2977-89. 2007..A second model supported the theory that negative rumination mediated between characteristic social anxiety and negative bias in the recollection of performance... - Interrater reliability of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV: child and parent versionHeidi J Lyneham
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:731-6. 2007.... - Psychometric properties of the School Anxiety Scale-Teacher Report (SAS-TR)Heidi J Lyneham
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Australia
J Anxiety Disord 22:292-300. 2008..The SAS-TR complements existing measures and can be used within a multi-informant approach to the assessment of child anxiety... - Fear and perceived uncontrollability of emotion: Evaluating the unique contribution of emotion appraisal variables to prediction of worry and generalised anxiety disorderLexine A Stapinski
Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Behav Res Ther 48:1097-104. 2010..Supporting current models, results showed that perceived control over emotional reactions was a unique predictor of GAD diagnostic status and both clinical and non-clinical worry... - Mental representation of observable attributes in people with social phobiaRonald M Rapee
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 37:113-26. 2006..People with social phobia also reported significantly lower perceived ability in other areas of performance and appearance. These data held even after statistically controlling for levels of depression... - Bibliotherapy for children with anxiety disorders using written materials for parents: A randomized controlled trialRonald M Rapee
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:436-44. 2006..These results have implications for the dissemination and efficient delivery of empirically validated treatment for childhood anxiety... 
Psychometric properties of the mini-social phobia inventoryElizabeth Seeley-Wait
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University and School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Drs Seeley Wait and Rapee are also presently members of the Centre for Emotional Health in the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University, which is affiliated with this work
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry 11:231-6. 2009..Therefore, the psychometric properties of the Mini-SPIN, a brief 3-item screen for social anxiety disorder, were examined...- Do empirically supported treatments generalize to private practice? A benchmark study of a cognitive-behavioural group treatment programme for social phobiaJonathan E Gaston
Sydney Anxiety Disorders Practice, and Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Br J Clin Psychol 45:33-48. 2006..The current study sought to examine this issue in relation to social phobia...