Many people claim that meditation helps them reduce stress, anxiety, or depression, but little quality evidence exists to support those anecdotes. Add to that the difficulty in designing a controlled trial of meditation—eg, how can people be blinded to their treatment group?—and it’s hard to know how to counsel patients on the effectiveness of this strategy.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric conditions in kids, and they are often predictive of future psychiatric problems. Researchers examined if effective treatment of anxiety disorders early on had positive long-term outcomes.

We know how frequently our patients complain of anxiety. Anxiety disorders are common, chronic conditions. They also increase the risk for mood and substance disorders, and complaints of anxiety are found in a wide range of other psychiatric and medical conditions, as well.

Documents:  FDA-Approved Medications for Anxiety.pdf...

Dr. Burns is the author of Feeling Good, The Feeling Good Handbook, and When Panic Attacks, which are available at bookstores and can be purchased online. You can learn more about his work by visiting his website at www.feelinggood.com.For a full list of references click here.

When it comes to medication management, practitioners often treat anxiety disorders as though they are all the same. However, there are specific clinical pearls that you should be aware of to adequately treat your clients with panic disorder.This review will provide you with a quick overview of panic disorder treatment...

When a person perceives there is danger, a fight-or-flight response sets into motion many physiological changes that prepare him or her to address the danger. Heart rate and breathing speed up, blood pressure rises; the person is energized and, hopefully, ready to meet the challenge.Just as it helped the caveman...

Whether you see your patients quarterly, monthly, or even weekly, you certainly are not with them as much as their cell phones are.

Anxiety disorders are common in young people, affecting 4%–7% of children. It appears that the majority of “adult” anxiety disorders begin in childhood and are stable and often chronic conditions, so an effective intervention can have lifelong benefits.

While there are many different anxiety disorders, the mainstay of treatment for nearly all of them is the same: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).