Clinical typology of anxiety disorders: dynamics, typology, psychotherapy, prevention

Resume: The history of studies of the effectiveness of psychotherapy is considered and its main tendency is highlighted - from general factors of effectiveness to their differentiation depending on a specific disorder. It is shown how the emergence of classifications with operationalized criteria, increasing the reliability and consistency of diagnostics, contributed to a qualitative shift in the development of new methods of psychotherapy and in research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy in the 1980s. The leading role of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy in this process is substantiated. For- As far as anxiety disorders are concerned, the role of the development of scientifically based psychological models of disorders in the further improvement of not only methods of psychotherapy, but also the classification of mental disorders is considered.