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Introduction and background Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) is a method used to generate socially significant improvements by means of observation, measurement and functional behavior analysis of associations between the behavior of an individual and their environment. (Hussain Bhutto & Saba Qazi Ali 2013). ABA procedures have shown effectiveness in behaviors associated with anxiety, such as emotional states, external stimuli, eating habits, and nail biting which according to former researches effects 28% to 33% of children ages 7-10 years old, 44% of adolescents, 19% to 29% of young adults, and 5% of later adults. The most common trigger of this habit according to the study seems to be stress or anxiety. Other researches state that nail …show more content…

Outcomes from the present study suggest that they need to look elsewhere for ways of incrementing the effectiveness of psychological treatment for this disorder. Given that GAD clients spend considerable time living in, and responding to thoughts and images of, a nonexistent future (Borkovec et al., in press), one possibility involves the further development of methods for helping clients to attend to and live more fully in the present moment, a goal that their past CBT approaches have attempted to accomplish (Borkovec & Costello, 1993). More systematic ways of doing this are currently being explored by Roemer and Orsillo (in press) in their incorporation of aspects of mindfulness and acceptance therapy into CBT techniques for …show more content…

Pincus, T. D. Borkovec, Michelle G. Newman, and Richard Lytle. (2002). A Component Analysis of Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the Role of Interpersonal Problems. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2002, Vol. 70, No. 2, 288–298 Barlow, D. H., & DiNardo, P. A. (1991). The diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder: Development, current status, and future direction. In R. M. Rapee & D. H. Barlow (Eds.), Chronic anxiety: Generalized anxiety disorder and mixed anxiety-depression(pp.95–118). NewYork: Guilford Press Borkovec, T. D., & Ruscio, A. (2000). Psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 62, 37–45. Brown, T. A., Antony, M. M., & Barlow, D. H. (1992). Psychometric properties of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire in a clinical anxiety disorders sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 30, 33–38. Kendler, K. S., Neale, M. C., Kessler, R. C., Heath, A. C., & Eaves, L. J. (1992). Generalized anxiety disorder in women: A population-based twin study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 49, 267–272. Sanderson, W. C., & Wetzler, S. (1991). Chronic anxiety and generalized anxiety disorder: Issues in comorbidity. InR.M.Rapee&D.H.Barlow (Eds.), Chronic anxiety: Generalized anxiety disorder and mixed anxiety-depression (pp. 119–135). New York: Guilford

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