RT Journal Article T1 Factors Interfering with the Course of Treatment for Anxiety Disorders: Prolongation and Premature Termination of Treatment T2 Factores que interfieren en el curso del tratamiento de los problemas de ansiedad: la prolongación y la terminación prematura del tratamiento A1 Bernaldo De Quirós Aragón, Mónica A1 Estupiñá Puig, Francisco José A1 Labrador Encinas, Francisco Javier A1 Labrador Méndez, Marta Isabel A1 Fernández Arias, Ignacio Gabino AB The efficacy and the effectiveness of anxiety disorder treatments have been proven. However, the desired results are not alwaysachieved. Studying the factors that interfere with the natural course of the treatments could help to correct and to adapt them.Two of these factors are the unnecessary prolongation of treatments and their premature termination. As expected, the durationof the treatment depends on the nature of the problem and the existence of comorbid problems, however treatments that are tooambitious (an excess of techniques) or combined with pharmacological treatments (increasing sessions by up to 21%) also havea longer duration. Premature termination is around 30-35% and patients “announce” the dropout by displaying poorer taskperformance and more irregular attendance from the beginning. More than 50% of the therapeutic dropout occurs before theeighth session and 80% of successful treatments are completed before the 20th session. PB Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Psicólogos, España SN 0214-7823 YR 2019 FD 2019 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91739 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91739 LA eng NO Fernández-Arias, I., Bernaldo-de-Quirós, M., Labrador, F. J., Estupiñá, F. J., & Labrador-Méndez, M. (2019). Factores que interfieren en el curso del tratamiento de los problemas de ansiedad: la prolongación y la terminación prematura del tratamiento. Papeles del psicólogo, 40(1), 15-20. DS Docta Complutense RD 6 oct 2024