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Article: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Anxiety Disorders/Reply: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Anxiety Disorders
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Canadian Psychiatric Association Jan 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Dear Editor:
The Canadian Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of Anxiety Disorders1 is an important and useful document. Nevertheless, it appears to contain a couple of errors. For example, it states1, p 25S that applied relaxation is not recommended in the management of panic disorder. Three sources are given to support that position. However, one of these is a review that concludes "this may be a useful treatment,"2 another is a study comparing relaxation, exposure, and cognitive therapy that concludes "they are about equally effective,"3 and the last is a study comparing relaxation and cognitive-behavioural therapy that concludes "both . . . are effective treatments of panic ...