Showing papers in "Behaviour Research and Therapy in 2005"

TL;DR: Results point to modest increases in both acquisition of fear learning and conditioned responding during extinction among anxiety patients and primarily emerge from studies employing simple, single-cue paradigms where only danger cues are presented and no inhibition of fear to safety cues is required.

TL;DR: Preliminary support for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder is provided and students with GAD, but not controls, displayed greater increases in self-reported physiological symptoms after listening to emotion-inducing music than after neutral mood induction.

TL;DR: Factor analysis of the Obsessive Belief Questionnaire and the Interpretation of Intrusions Inventory yielded a single factor, suggesting the total score be used in lieu of the 3 rationally derived subscales, and Discriminant validity was promising.

TL;DR: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a clinical sample of 513 youth referred for mental health assessment at a university clinic, finding that the RCADS generally showed greater correspondence to specific diagnostic syndromes.

TL;DR: As predicted by the cognitive model, good treatment outcome was related to greater changes in dysfunctional post-traumatic cognitions, however, low educational attainment and low socioeconomic status were related to better outcome.

TL;DR: Interim and longer-term conceptual and practical solutions to the anomalous status of eating disorder NOS are proposed including the creation of a new diagnosis termed “mixed eating disorder” which is of relevance to NOS categories in general.

TL;DR: Improvements in most outcomes during treatment were correlated with increases in acceptance, supporting the proposed process of treatment.

TL;DR: It is found that both two-item and six-item versions of the PTSD Checklist-civilian version have adequate psychometric properties for screening purposes and suggest that the selection of one version over the other depends on the specific needs of each primary care clinic.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that CBT for adults with ADHD with residual symptoms is a feasible, acceptable, and potentially efficacious next-step treatment approach is supported, worthy of further testing.

TL;DR: There was no significant difference in YBOCS scores between CBT and ERP at post-treatment or at 3-month follow-up or the significance of these results is discussed and a comparison is made with the existing literature.

TL;DR: Standardized Jacobson methodology for defining clinically significant change was applied to recent psychological outcome trials for OCD and the proportion of asymptomatic patients following treatment was calculated.

TL;DR: Overall, the results suggest that Internet-administered self-help plus minimal therapist contact via e-mail can be equally effective as traditional individual cognitive behaviour therapy for panic disorder.

TL;DR: This study directly compared worry and rumination in a non-clinical population across a series of variables drawn from current models (appraisal, general descriptors and emotional reactions) and found no differences found between worry andRumination on appraisals and strategies.

TL;DR: Results indicated that performance on one behavioral measure, the balloon analogue risk task, accounted for unique variance in self-reported delinquency/safety risk behaviors as well as substance use risk behaviors, above and beyond that provided with demographics and self-report measures of risk-related constructs.

TL;DR: Characteristics of the intrusive memories predicted PTSD severity at 6 months over and above what could be predicted from PTSD diagnostic status at initial assessment and have implications for the early identification of trauma survivors at risk of chronic PTSD.

TL;DR: Results indicate that peritraumatic dissociation is not a proxy risk factor for experiential avoidance and contributes to the growing body of literature indicating that experientIAL avoidance is an important factor related to the psychological symptoms experienced by trauma survivors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the role of sociocultural influences over a 16-month period on strategies to lose weight, extreme weight loss strategies, and strategies to increase muscles among adolescent boys and girls.

TL;DR: Eye movement registration (electroculography) as a direct index of selective visual attention was used while eating symptomatic and normal control participants were exposed to digitalized pictures of their own body and control bodies and showed a decreased focus on their own 'beautiful' body parts in the high symptomatic participants.

TL;DR: The observed pattern of differential attention to threatening pictures may explain the persistence of fear in HTA individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, the benefits of DBT over TAU in terms of lower levels of parasuicidal and impulsive behaviours, and in alcohol use, sustained after treatment discontinuation.

TL;DR: The results of the present study are consistent with the hypothesis that an analytical mode of self-focused rumination may be particularly maladaptive in depression.

TL;DR: Findings are consistent with previous reports of extensive comorbidity associated with hoarding behaviors, and may reflect the potential usefulness of assessing PTSD and ADHD symptoms at the outset of hoarding treatments, as well as considering alternative pharmacological interventions.

TL;DR: Initial evidence that acceptance may be a useful alternative to the suppression of personally relevant intrusive thoughts is offered.

TL;DR: This pilot study tested the hypothesis that older adults with executive deficits (as measured by neuropsychological tests) would show decreased therapeutic benefit from CBT for generalized anxiety disorder, as compared to a group with intact EF.

TL;DR: This randomized controlled study evaluated an Internet-delivered behavioral regimen composed of progressive relaxation, limited biofeedback with autogenic training, and stress management versus a symptom monitoring waitlist control for headache symptoms.

TL;DR: A first demonstration of reinstatement of conditioned fear responses in humans is demonstrated, which refers to the observation that mere US-only presentations can 'reinstate' previously extinguished fear responses.

TL;DR: Experimental and self-monitoring data on NJREs are presented in an undergraduate sample and several significant relationships were found between features ofNJREs and OC symptoms and constructs theoretically related to OCD, but no significant relationships are found between non-OCD-related constructs.

TL;DR: Outcome data from several hundred patients treated with CBT in routine clinical practice in a National Health Service psychology service is summarized, and their outcomes with some of the published research suggest thatCBT in this context is an effective treatment, albeit with probably not quite such good results as it achieves in research trials.

TL;DR: In a differential human fear conditioning paradigm evidence for ABA-renewal was obtained manipulating the lighting in the experimental room, during acquisition in either a dark or illuminated room, one neutral slide was sometimes paired with a loud aversive noise whereas another slide was not and extinction took place in the opposite lighting context.

TL;DR: Post-event processing is focused on, which is a post-mortem analysis following a social event that is described as ruminative in nature and serves to maintain social anxiety.