Prevention
Focus is increasing on prevention of mental disorders. Use of CBT with people at risk of anxiety has been shown to significantly reduce the number of episodes of generalized anxiety disorder and anxiety symptoms, and also significant improvements in explanatory style, hopelessness, and dysfunctional attitudes.In another study 3% of the group receiving the CBT intervention developed GAD by 12 months postintervention compared with 14% in the control group.
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“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)