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Neuromodulation To Enhance Attention Training In Socially Anxious Adolescents, Daniella Vaclavik
Neuromodulation To Enhance Attention Training In Socially Anxious Adolescents, Daniella Vaclavik
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Anxiety and its disorders are prevalent and impairing in adolescents, often following a chronic course, and are associated with heightened prospective risk of depressive disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors. Traditional interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) have yielded response rates that highlight the critical need to examine treatment outcome moderators in underrepresented populations (i.e., Latino youth), as well as identify and evaluate innovative and alternative interventions that are brief, efficacious, and grounded in neuroscience. In a series of three manuscripts, this dissertation project presents findings on moderators of CBT outcomes in Latino youth (Chapter II) and explores …