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The Prevalence, Assessment, and Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders

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In this chapter, I begin with an overview of the prevalence of anxiety disorders and how these prevalence figures differ according to gender and age. In the second part of the chapter, I discuss some of the procedures for assessing or measuring anxiety and how anxiety disorder diagnoses are derived.

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Kleinknecht, R.A. (1991). The Prevalence, Assessment, and Diagnosis of Anxiety Disorders. In: Mastering Anxiety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7319-1_3

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