For some time, the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders has been exposure therapy, defined as the repeated approach of anxiety-inducing situations, memories, or physiological sensations. Existing treatments to target fear and avoidance of pain can be augmented by innovations from exposure research in the anxiety disorders, including greater emphasis on safety learning, the utilization of imaginal exposure to catastrophic fears, and exposure to contrasting emotions. Given that treatments to target core, maintaining mechanisms of anxiety, including imaginal exposures, can be administered as self-directed treatments without therapist involvement, they represent important avenues for ensuring the millions of people with chronic musculosketal pain can gain access to psychosocial treatment and reduce the interference of pain in their lives. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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弥合差距：利用暴露疗法的见解来创新慢性肌肉骨骼疼痛治疗。

一段时间以来，治疗焦虑症的黄金标准是暴露疗法，其定义是反复接触诱发焦虑的情境、记忆或生理感觉。现有的针对恐惧和避免疼痛的治疗方法可以通过焦虑症暴露研究的创新得到增强，包括更加重视安全学习、利用想象中的灾难性恐惧暴露以及暴露于对比情绪中。鉴于针对核心、维持焦虑机制（包括想象暴露）的治疗可以作为自我导向治疗而无需治疗师参与，它们代表了确保数百万患有慢性肌肉骨骼疼痛的人能够获得心理社会治疗并减少痛苦的重要途径。痛苦对他们生活的干扰。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。