Hilary Warwick developed a cognitive-behavioral account of health anxiety. The formulation links interpretations of bodily sensations with attention, checking and reassurance-related behavior as candidate maintaining processes. It supplies hypotheses for assessment and intervention; as an original theoretical formulation, it should be distinguished from a randomized test establishing the effect of a treatment package. [ref]
Hypochondriasis by Hilary Warwick and others. 1990, cognitive-behavioral formulation
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