How to Treat Anxiety Disorders: Guidelines from Australia and New Zealand

Various pragmatic approaches can help, including therapies based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, in-person or digitally delivered CBT, medication, and their combination.

Sponsoring Organization: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)

Target Population: Adults with panic disorder, social anxiety disorder (SAD), or generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) at all levels of severity

Background and Objective

To assist psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinicians in primary care, community mental health, or specialty settings, the guideline used systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and randomized controlled trials to determine best treatments.

Key Points

Clinicians should individualize treatment based on patient preferences while considering effectiveness, safety, acceptability, accessibility, and costs.
First-line interventions consist of psychoeducation and lifestyle interventions and then s…

Reviewing Author

Joel Yager, MD

Disclosures

Editorial BoardsInternational Journal of Eating Disorders; UpToDate; FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry; American Journal of Psychotherapy