Experimental Study Of The Treatment Effect On Panic Disorder By Using The Metacognition Intervention Technique

Objective: Based on the research achievements of the predecessors on panic disorder, taking three visitors of panic disorder as subjects, discuss the morbific psychic mechanism of panic disorder and the treatment effect of the metacognition intervention technique on panic disorder, providing clinical reference for the psychology intervention on panic disorder. Methods: On the condition of single subject or small N in experimental research, applying Multiple-baseline design, implement intervention on panic disorder with metacognition intervention technique. Combine the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) and the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) with self-report of the subjects, assess the changes of indicators in the process of experiment. Results: All indicators of the three subjects in the baseline observation are stable. After interventions, times of panic attacks generally reduce, anxiety levels decrease, and the social compatibility strengthen. Conclusion: The results support the assumptions that the psychological mechanism of the panic disorder formation is a result of circulatory enlargement of the negative conditioned emotional reaction. metacognition intervention technique can obtain good effect as to the panic disorder. Generally speaking, it is able to eliminate the panic attack and lower the panic anxiety level in two weeks, and possibly have panic disorder cured thoroughly in long-term training.