Showing papers in "Cognitive and Behavioral Practice in 1998"

TL;DR: This article developed a model of stereotype that frames stigma as a cognitive structure and identified three targets: persons who hide their mental health experience from the public and suffer a private shame; persons who have been publicly labeled as mentally ill and suffer societal scorn; and society itself, which suffers fears and misinformation based on stigma and myth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of a manual as a guide for the treatment of children with anxiety disorders is discussed, and the authors focus on somatic cues, relaxation, self-talk, the FEAR plan, exposure tasks and the closing video (commercial).

TL;DR: In this paper, a number of cognitive behavioral strategies for coping with social and self-stigma, including secrecy, selective disclosure, Socratic questioning, and cost/benefit analysis, are outlined.

TL;DR: Empowerment is an ideology that has emerged in reaction to inadequacies in systems of care for persons with serious mental illness as discussed by the authors, which is based on the principle that psychiatric consumers can gain control over their lives, reduce their reliance on professionals, and take action on their own behalf.

TL;DR: Research on the stigma of severe mental illness is briefly reviewed, followed by suggestions on how mental health professionals might best approach the problem of reducing the stigma associated with severemental illness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of sex offending that focuses on cognitive behavioral variables proposed as functional causal pathways to guide assessment and treatment of individuals with cognitive impairments, such as intellectually disabled individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the mental health needs of low-income minority patients, pointing out specific risks, obstacles to service utilization, reasons for treatment failures, and significant opportunities for clinical interventions and innovations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a rationale for the inclusion of parents into the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders and describe approaches to engage parents in individual child-focused treatment, but do not describe how to implement them or what to do when parents do not comply.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss personal struggles with the discrimination, blame, and guilt frequently associated with having a mental illness, and find satisfaction in opposing stigma through mental health advocacy.

TL;DR: This case study examined the change in the physical symptoms of IBS for a patient seeking treatment for rape-related PTSD with comorbid conditions of major depression and panic, and found the patient no longer met criteria for PTSD, major depression, or panic at posttreatment.

TL;DR: The development of the Interview for Suicide in Schizophrenia (ISIS), a semistructured interview for the assessment of suicide in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia is described and preliminary data describing the instrument's psychometric properties are presented.

TL;DR: In clinical supervision of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), the supervisor relies primarily on verbal instruction, although in the practice of CBT the therapist employs a variety of "nontalking" methods to facilitate change.

TL;DR: The efficacy of clozapine in reducing TD in relation to the variables of treatment duration and dosage is described and combined with cognitive and behavioral interventions should lead to improved outcomes, less serious side effects, and improved quality of life for schizophrenic and schizoaffectively disordered patients.

TL;DR: This paper responds to the five articles in this special series of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, which focusses on issues related to stigma and mental illness and summarizes strategies in three categories of intervention: helping individuals to cope with stigma, empowering individuals to achieve their life goals, and changing society's attitudes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a case about a 33-year-old man suffering from anxiety mixed with depression, who also meets criteria for several DSM-IV Axis II disorders.

TL;DR: In this article, a special issue of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice addressing the hardship that social stigma places on persons with mental illness, as well as strategies for addressing the problem of stigma is presented.