Conclusions
Behavioral assessment for anxiety disorders encompasses a variety of sophisticated techniques. However, such assessment involves far more than the application of its constituent procedures (Haynes, 1990). It is important to consider that behavioral assessment has as its primary goal the understanding and identification of causal factors associated with an individual’s anxiety response. Thus, careful application of behavioral assessment procedures involves individualized selection of those techniques that will most efficiently serve to reveal the factors that elicit or maintain the target behavior. Once selected, the repeated application of such measurement techniques is clearly one of the most important aspects of understanding what contributes to positive therapeutic change. Thus, the contributions of behavioral assessment not only to case formulation but also to efficacious treatment of anxiety are substantial and abundant. Clearly, as research continues, these contributions will increase.
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Chorpita, B.F., Taylor, A.A. (2002). Behavioral Assessment of Anxiety Disorders. 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_3
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