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For the behavior therapist, the treatment of stress and generalized anxiety offers both comforts and frustrations. On the one hand, behavioral methods would seem ideally adapted to dysfunctions in which anxiety and physiological arousal are central. Early clinical behavior therapy was fashioned as a treatment for anxiety-related disorders. The most compelling and best documented successes of outpatient behavior therapy have come in the area of fear reduction. Yet, on the other hand, stress and generalized anxiety are not in all respects analogous to those phobic and obsessional syndromes with which behavior therapy has been so effective.
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Woolfolk, R.L., Lehrer, P.M. (1985). Stress and Generalized Anxiety. In: Hersen, M., Bellack, A.S. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Behavior Therapy with Adults. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2427-0_4
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