Looming Vulnerability: Theory, Research and Practice in Anxiety

by Neil a Rector, John H Riskind, Neil A. Rector

Book Overview

This stimulating resource presents the Looming Vulnerability Model, a nuanced take on the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of anxiety, worry, and other responses to real or imagined threat. The core feature of the model-the perception of growing, rapidly approaching threat-is traced to humans' evolutionary past, and this dysfunctional perception is described as it affects cognitive processing, executive functioning, emotions, physiology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493987801
• ISBN13: 9781493987801
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"