Intrusive Mental Imagery in Chronic Pain: Prevalence and Associations with Common Comorbidities
ConclusionsExperiencing intrusive imagery about pain is common, but its presence or absence appears to have no direct relationship on pain intensity or disability. The relationship is likely to be more complex, warranting further investigation. Negative interpretations of imagery represent a potential treatment target amenable to intervention. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Interpretation Bias and Adolescent Social Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Pre- and Post-Event Rumination
ConclusionsFindings provide potential approaches for reducing adolescent SA by targeting IB and rumination and showed the situational adaptability of the cognitive model of social anxiety disorder among adolescents. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Regretted Actions and Inactions of Military Veterans and Psychological Problems
ConclusionOur findings suggest that both acts of commission and acts of omission, and how they are interpreted, are important for understanding psychological problems. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Conflict Reappraisal Intervention for Community Couples with Young Children
ConclusionsL2P2 shows promise as a brief intervention to attenuate declines in relationship quality in couples.Clinicaltrials.gov RegistrationNCT05261022. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Factors Related to Outcomes in Depression Among Youth with HIV
ConclusionsSpecific elements of the H&W CBT (e.g., dose, assignment of homework, greater skills practice, and use of booster sessions) were associated with improvement of depression outcomes in YWH. A focus on these elements in treatment may improve symptom reduction for YWH with depression. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Attention and Interpretation Bias Modification Transfers to Memory Bias: Testing the Combined Cognitive Bias Hypothesis
This study delves into the combined cognitive bias hypothesis in depression, exploring the interaction between negative attention, interpretation and memory biases. We aimed to assess whether modifying attention and interpretation bias would lead to congruent changes in memory bias, and to what extend and depth this causal effect can be.MethodNinety-nine undergraduates underwent either a positive (PT) or negative (NT) four-day attention and interpretation bias training. A set of well-established post-training assessments including free recall, recognition, autobiographic memory, and self-reference encoding tasks were used ...
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Therapeutic Potential of Embodied Cognition for Clinical Psychotherapies: From Theory to Practice
ConclusionsWe conclude that psychotherapy can benefit from the transformative process that occurs when individuals gain insights, skills, and self-awareness through embodied therapeutic experiences. In the context of embodied psychotherapy, learning to self-heal extends beyond the acquisition of information; it involves a deeper understanding of the connection between one ’s body, thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and the interconnectedness of these elements within the environment/context. Through this process, along with the therapist, clients acquire valuable insights into the root causes of challenges, develop coping str...
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Task Control in the Affordance Task as the Underlying Mechanism for the Imbalance Between the Goal-Directed and Habit Formation Systems in Obsessive –Compulsive Disorder
ConclusionsThese findings strengthen the notion that task control deficits might account for the imbalance between the goal-directed and habit formation systems and that this deficit might be a risk factor for OCD but does not account for symptom-severity. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Relationship Between Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Support and Their Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Korean Emerging Adults
ConclusionsThese findings suggest that IER strategies, especially those that focus on upregulating positive emotions, may enhance the perception of social support. This offers a promising avenue for designing interventions to support emerging adults facing difficulties in a variety of social and relational transitions. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Hopelessness as a Mechanism of the Relationship between Physical Pain and Thoughts of Suicide: Results from Two Smartphone-Based Real-Time Monitoring Samples
ConclusionsOur study adds to a growing body of research of risk factors for suicide, and future research should explore this relationship between physical pain and hopelessness with suicidal behavior. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students
ConclusionsAlthough undergraduates with higher social anxiety levels were less likely to participate in DGs than those with lower social anxiety levels, among undergraduates who chose to participate in DGs, social anxiety was positively associated with multiple motivations to play DGs and alcohol-related consequences as a result of playing DGs. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Altered Neural Activity during Negative Reinforcement in People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
ConclusionWe provide initial data demonstrating altered neural activity during negative reinforcement in OCD patients, providing empirical support for dominant behavioral models emphasizing the role of negative reinforcement in etiology and maintenance of pathological compulsive behaviors. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Self-Burdensomeness, Self-Esteem and Suicidal Ideation
ConclusionsSelf-burdensomeness might be understood as a driver of suicidal ideation. Findings point to the possibility that a focus on self-burdensomeness and/or low self-esteem might be relevant in the treatment of suicidal patients. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - February 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What Does ‘High Anxiety Sensitivity’ Look Like? Using Cluster Analysis to Identify Distinct Profiles of High Anxiety Sensitive Treatment-Seekers
ConclusionsResults provide valuable insight into the heterogeneity of high AS as it appears clinically, with implications for best matching treatment approaches for this population. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - February 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Predictors of Excessive Reassurance Seeking in Social Anxiety
ConclusionsFuture prospective, naturalistic, and experimental research is needed to verify that evaluative threat-related reassurance seeking in social anxiety may be driven by heightened self-doubt and engagement in post-event processing, which may hinder socially anxious individuals from receiving high-quality support from those in their social network. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - February 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
