COVID-19 Health Anxiety: Treatment & CBT Techniques

- Taylor, S. & Asmundson, G., J. G. (2004). Treating Health Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. 142-147.

Update
Mood-Congruent Negative Thinking
Styles and Cognitive Vulnerability
in Depressed COVID-19 Survivors:
A Comparison with Major Depressive Disorder

Benedetti, F., Palladini, M., D'Orsi, G., Furlan, R., Ciceri, F., Rovere-Querini, P., COVID-19 BioB Outpatient Clinic Study group, & Mazza, M. G. (2022). Mood-congruent negative thinking styles and cognitive vulnerability in depressed COVID-19 survivors: A comparison with major depressive disorder. Journal of affective disorders, 308, 554–561.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Hedman, E., Lekander, M., Karshikoff, B., Ljótsson, B., Axelsson, E., & Axelsson, J. (2016). Health anxiety in a disease-avoidance framework: Investigation of anxiety, disgust and disease perception in response to sickness cues. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(7), 868–878.

Hilbert, M. (2012). Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases: How noisy information processing can bias human decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 138(2), 211–237. 

Hirsch, C. R., Krahé, C., Whyte, J., Loizou, S., Bridge, L., Norton, S., & Mathews, A. (2018). Interpretation training to target repetitive negative thinking in generalized anxiety disorder and depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 86(12), 1017–1030

Hirsch, C. R., Krahé, C., Whyte, J., Bridge, L., Loizou, S., Norton, S., & Mathews, A. (2020). Effects of modifying interpretation bias on transdiagnostic repetitive negative thinking. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88(3), 226–239.

Monteregge, S., Tsagkalidou, A., Cuijpers, P., & Spinhoven, P. (2020). The effects of different types of treatment for anxiety on repetitive negative thinking: A meta‐analysis. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 27(2), Article e12316.

QUESTION 14
COVID-19 can cause intolerance of uncertainty. How might this be exhibited by your client? Record the letter of the correct answer to the CE Test.