Background/context: Anxiety disorders are common in community mental health services and are frequently maintained by worry, rumination, threat monitoring, reassurance seeking, avoidance, and maladaptive attempts to control internal experience. Aim/objective: This perspective chapter examines Detached Mindfulness as a metacognitive technique for anxiety disorders and discusses its clinical...
Adolescent girls who talk excessively about worries and problems with close friends, an interpersonal emotion-regulation strategy known as co-rumination, are at higher risk of developing depression and anxiety. These conversations closeness. But they also keep the nervous system in a loop that offers relief without resolution, and that loop becomes harder to interrupt the longer it runs. The...