CBT for adult anxiety disorders in clinical practice: meta-analysis

CBT for adult anxiety disorders in clinical practice: meta-analysis

1. Stewart et. al

2. Objective

   •  - to conduct a meta-analysis of effectiveness studies for CBT to see if benefits found in controlled studies can generalize into less-controlled real-world scenerios.  - to test whether or not clinical representativeness is related to outcome of effect size.

3. Method

   • Criteria
     •  - anxiety disorder defined by the DSM-4  - CBT was loosely defined and included any type of therapy including any of those properties

4. Results

   •  - all disorder-specific effect sizes are large  - CBT works very well in clinical application in treating anxiety disorders  - CBT also lowers depression symptoms comorbid with anxiety disorders  - effect size decreases when therapists are untrained, do not use manuals or are not monitored to ensure they are delivering proper treatment.