Illness anxiety disorder: a review of the current research and future directions

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• What: As IAD is a new disorder, historically, much of the research has focused on samples exhibiting DSM-IV Hypochondriasis (which focused on excessive preoccupation with having a serious illness, despite medical reassurance) or excessive and persistent ‘health anxiety` using dimensional measures (which can encompass current and previous DSM diagnoses and subthreshold symptoms). This model proposes that anxious and insecure attachments derived from caregivers in early childhood leads to increased maladaptive care-seeking behaviours and reassurance seeking in adulthood .
• Who: Katarina Kikas from the Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Hospital Road Randwick . . .
  

   

  

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