Anxiety disorders

General Informationtop

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
  

  Site of the American patient special interest group, which claims to be the only non-profit site to provide information on anxiety disorders. For the professional, handy overview of upcoming conferences and current clinical trials being conducted in the US (sorted by state, with map!).

General information: Diagnosis & treatmenttop

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Anxiety Disorders
  

  The Anxiety Disorders Education Program is developed by the American NIMH.  Each anxiety disorder and treatment option is described. Also includes descriptions of relevant research by the National Institutes of Health and links via MedlinePlus to recent articles about anxiety (including animal models).

• Internet Mental Health: Disorders
  

  An excellent site, where you can find information about disorders, including anxiety disorders, alphabetically or by category, by (1) a DSM - IV or ICD10 code and diagnostic criteria, (2) recommended treatment, (3) information material, and (4) publications from the popular press.

• Mental Help Net: Anxiety Disorders
  

  A well maintained American site with accessible information via its own search engine.

• Mental Help Net: Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms
  

  This section of the MHN site provides descriptions of the most important anxiety disorder symptoms.

• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Anxiety Disorders
  

  Section 15 (Psychiatric Disorders), Chapter 187 (Anxiety Disorders) defines the anxiety disorders, their diagnostic criteria and treatment options.

• UCLA Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Research Program (ADBRP)
  

  Though primarily designed to serve -- and recruit -- patients, this site is an excellent for example of how professional psychiatry/psychology websites should be. Accessible and informative. Includes a self-assessment questionnaire.

General information: Diagnosis & treatment - Self-helptop

• Psych Web: Psychology Self-Help Resources on the Internet
  

  Comprehensive collection of links to the self-help literature.

General information: Assessmenttop

General information: Assessment - Overviewtop

General information: For and by patientstop

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
  

  Site of the American patient special interest group, which claims to be the only non-profit site to provide information on anxiety disorders. For the professional, handy overview of upcoming conferences and current clinical trials being conducted in the US (sorted by state, with map!). Advisory board includes important people in the field.

• the Anxiety Panic internet resource (tAPir)
  

  A site aimed at laypeople. Well organised, with many useful links to anxiety related information.

Conferencestop

• International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD)
  

  International conference, every two years . A few hundred participants, with an excellent faculty

• International Anxiety Disorders Symposium (IADS)
  

  Yearly conference, alternating between Amsterdam and Cape Town. 

• Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
  

  Annual conference organised by this American special interest group for patients with anxiety disorders.  Many top researchers (psychiatrists and psychologists) make an appearance, and because the conference is national and relatively small, participants are very accessible. Foreigners are welcome to attend and also to present papers relating to anxiety disorders. 

• Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT)
  

  The annual conference of this American association has traditionally included a lot of focus on research into anxiety disorders.

Literature: Journalstop

Literature: Journals- Generaltop

• Journal of Affective Disorders
  

  Regularly publishes articles about anxiety disorders.

• Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, The (JCP)
  

  Regularly publishes supplements specifically about anxiety disorders.

• General psychiatric journals
  

  In addition to the generic psychiatric journals, which can be found via this link, there are a number of journals specifically dedicated to anxiety disorders. Links to these can be found under the next topic entitled Journals - Specialised.

Literature: Journals - Specialisedtop

• Anxiety, Stress and Coping
  

  A European publication which now and then publishes good, clinically relevant articles.

• Depression and Anxiety
  

  A twin publication (there is also a version for depression and one for anxiety) which features good articles about anxiety disorders, research as well as clinical experiences.

• Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  

  As the title indicates, exclusively dedicated to anxiety disorders, particularly research.

Literature: Journals - Clinical psychologytop

• Behavior Research and Therapy
  

  This publication with a clinical psychology perspective is also known as Rachman's Journal, after its well-known editor. It is a good journal for (cognitive) behaviour therapy studies applied to the treatment of anxiety disorders.

• Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  

  The quality of this journal, started by Joseph Wolpe, the patriarch of exposure therapy, seems to be recovering under new Dutch editorship.

• Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  

  A journal of the American Psychological Association (APA), it regularly publishes important outcome studies of both psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment. It is also according to the APA the source for guidelines and overviews of evidence based treatments for anxiety disorders 

Measurement instrumentstop

• Agoraphobic Cognitions Questionnaire (ACQ)
  

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• Body Sensations Questionnaire (BSQ)
  

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• Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ)
  

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• Mobility Inventory (MI)
  

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Guidelinestop

Specific Disorders: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)top

Specific Disorders: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Specifictop

• David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages
  

  An Oregon psychologist/psychotherapist maintains this very informative site about trauma and PTSD. Updated monthly, it includes overviews of the kinds of trauma, articles, and online databases, as well information about general support, books, and David Baldwin himself.
  See also the PILOTS database, below under PTSD Literature.

Specific Disorders: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Literaturetop

• National Center for PTSD
  

  The site of this American organisation offers a great deal of information about research into PTSD and treatment of the syndrome.

• PILOTS database, The: PTSD literature
  

  Database by the National Center for PTSD of the worldwide Traumatic Stress literature.  Includes approximately 22,000 articles about PTSD.

Specific Disorders: Panic disorder with and without agoraphobiatop

Specific Disorders : Panic disorder with and without agoraphobia - Specifictop

Specific Disorders : Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)top

Disorders specific: Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) - Literaturetop

Specific Disorders : Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)top

Specific Disorders : obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - Generaltop

• Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (OCF)
  

  A site meant for the general public.  Provides a good entree to the literature.

Specific Disorders : Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - Specifictop

Specific Disorders: Social Anxiety Disordertop