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Assessment of Anxiety Disorders in Older Adults: Current Concerns, Future Prospects

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Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety

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The assessment of anxiety in the elderly is an area that has just begun to receive attention from researchers and clinicians. As such, there are many questions that are unanswered at present. This overview is intended to facilitate continued work in this area, as well as to highlight issues where clinical science could benefit from more systematic information.

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  1. Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14260

    J. Gayle Beck

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, 77030

    Melinda A. Stanley

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  1. St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton

    Martin M. Antony

  2. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Martin M. Antony

  3. VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

    Susan M. Orsillo

  4. University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

    Lizabeth Roemer

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Beck, J.G., Stanley, M.A. (2002). Assessment of Anxiety Disorders in Older Adults: Current Concerns, Future Prospects. In: Antony, M.M., Orsillo, S.M., Roemer, L. (eds) Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety. AABT Clinical Assessment Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47628-2_7

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