February 2023

What is the CBT health anxiety model?

What is the CBT health anxiety model? The Cognitive Behavioral Model Of Health Anxiety illustrates how mis-appraisal of body symptoms as threatening results in emotional and physiological feelings of anxiety, safety-seeking behaviours, all of which serve to maintain the threat appraisals. This model of health anxiety uses a ‘vicious flower’ format with ‘preoccupation with health

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What is worry vs rumination?

What is worry vs rumination? A key difference between worry and rumination is that worry is concerned with danger whilst rumination is concerned with loss, hopelessness and failure. Rumination occurs in the context of sadness, disappointment, loss and depression. According to the American Psychological Association, some common reasons for rumination include: belief that by ruminating,

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