Strategies intended to recognise, tolerate or regulate anxiety, including coping routines, relaxation and breathing exercises. These should be distinguished from targeted tests of threat predictions. Whether a technique supports approach or becomes a perceived safety requirement depends on its use, and efficacy of a CBT package does not isolate the technique's effect.[ref]
A meta-analysis to guide the enhancement of CBT for childhood anxiety: exposure over anxiety management by Stephen P. H. Whiteside and others. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review 23, 102–121; 75 studies, 111 CBT conditions and component meta-regressions
Recognising and describing emotional experiences. Performance on an emotion-label task and ability to use that understanding in everyday situations are distinct outcomes.
Deliberate alteration or attention to breathing. In an anxiety intervention its proposed function should be specified and assessed rather than presuming that any reduction in arousal changes the meaning assigned to bodily sensations.
An activity intended to reduce muscular tension or physiological arousal. A reduction in immediate arousal is a different endpoint from durable change in an anxiety disorder.
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