Beliefs About the Uncontrollability and Usefulness of Emotion in the Schizophrenia-Spectrum: Links to Emotion Regulation and Negative Symptoms
ConclusionsIndividuals in the schizophrenia-spectrum display superordinate beliefs that emotions are uncontrollable. These beliefs may influence emotion regulation strategy selection and success, which contributes to negative symptoms. Findings suggest that beliefs of emotional uncontrollability reflect a novel process related to both emotion regulation and negative symptoms that could be targeted in psychosocial treatments. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - February 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Low Emotional Complexity as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor: Comparing Idiographic Markers of Emotional Complexity to Emotional Granularity as Predictors of Anxiety, Depression, and Personality Pathology
ConclusionsThe results highlight the importance of studying both idiographic and existing nomothetic measures of EC as potential transdiagnostic risk factors for psychopathology. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - January 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Goal-Directed Learning Deficits in Patients with OCD: A Bayesian Analysis
ConclusionsFindings highlight the importance of conceptualizing psychopathology dimensionally, such as the relevance of imbalanced habitual vs. goal-directed behavior in OCD. Results also underscore the importance of examining unique associations of goal-directed behaviors in OCD with clinical/syndromal measures (compulsions vs. obsessions). (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - January 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Development of a Forced Choice Assessment of Appearance Importance: The Appearance Preference Task (APT)
ConclusionThe present investigation provides preliminary support for the APT ’s potential utility as a novel assessment of appearance importance. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - January 7, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mediators and Moderators of Therapeutic Change in the Unified Protocol for Women Experiencing Homelessness
ConclusionTo our knowledge this is the first study examining potential mediators and moderators of change in an evidence-based psychological treatment in a population experiencing homelessness. Findings suggest that transdiagnostic protocols may be a promising approach to improving psychological outcomes in this population. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - December 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Acceptability and Outcomes of Transdiagnostic Guided Self-help Bibliotherapy for Internalizing Disorder Symptoms in Adults: A Fully Remote Nationwide Open Trial
ConclusionDWM is a freely available, seemingly efficacious transdiagnostic intervention for internalizing disorder symptoms. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - December 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Antidepressant Medication Status as a Moderator of Winter Depression Recurrence Following Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Light Therapy: Is There Evidence of an Iatrogenic Effect?
AbstractHollon (Am Psychol 75(9):1207 –1218, 2020) questioned whether antidepressant medication (ADM) has iatrogenic effects that prolong a depressive episode, contributing to relapse when ADM is stopped and explaining the apparent enduring advantage of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) over ADM in reducing risk of recurrence. A rand omized clinical trial including 177 adults with winter depression treated with 6 weeks of CBT or light therapy (LT) observed significantly fewer depression recurrences the second winter following CBT than LT, but not the first winter after treatment. Stable ADM use at baseline was allowed, ...
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - December 9, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Expectations: Predicting Outcomes in Exposure Treatments for Specific Phobia
ConclusionThese results empirically support treatment expectations as a relevant predictor of change in exposure treatments for SP. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - November 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Beliefs About Memory Inventory (BAMI) and Its Ability to Predict Compulsive Checking
ConclusionsThe BAMI holds promise for both research and clinical use. Results are discussed within the framework of cognitive theory of and treatments for OCD. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - November 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effect of Emotion Regulation Difficulties on Acute Smoking Urges Following a 35% Carbon Dioxide Challenge
ConclusionThis study found that smokers with greater ER difficulties evidenced an acute dampening in smoking urges following 35% CO2-exposure. These findings may suggest a modification to extant negative reinforcement models of addiction by suggesting that contexts characterized by acute anxious arousal may decrease immediate negative reinforcement smoking. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - November 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Habit Reversal Training and Variants of Decoupling for Use in Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors. A Randomized Controlled Trial
We examined whether applying more than one technique would lead either to add-on or interference effects.ResultsThe three treatment conditions were significantly superior to the waitlist control group in the improvement of BFRBs according to intention-to-treat analyses at a medium effect size (allp ≤ 0.002,d = 0.52 – 0.54). The condition displaying DC first significantly reduced depressive symptoms (p = 0.003,d = 0.47) and improved quality of life (p = 0.011,d = 0.39) compared to the waitlist control. Those using more techniques concurrently showed the strongest decline in BFRB symptoms, even af...
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - November 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Impact of Emotion Regulation on the Relationship Between Momentary Negative Affect and End-of-Day Worry and Rumination
ConclusionsFindings suggest that emotion regulation skills moderate the relationship between negative affect and end-of-day NSRP, highlighting the utility of using reappraisal and acceptance in daily life. This could eventually lead to improvements in treating GAD. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - November 12, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Reducing Anhedonia in Major Depressive Disorder with Future Event Specificity Training (FEST): A Randomized Controlled Trial
ConclusionThe quality of future thinking can be enhanced in Major Depression, and this leads to a substantially reduced likelihood of anhedonia, other significant clinical effects, and functional gains. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - November 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Specific Pandemic-Related Worries Predict Higher Attention-Related Errors and Negative Affect Independent of Trait Anxiety in UK-Based Students
ConclusionPRW ’s relationship with negative affect was partially mediated through attentional function, consistent with models of anxiety and attentional control. In UK-based students PRW may be predominantly focused on the decline in QoL; therefore, interventions targeting worry about the decline in QoL caused by COVID-19 are especially important in this population in the wake of the pandemic. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Measuring Appearance-Related Comparisons: Validation of the Comparison Standards Scale for Appearance
ConclusionsOverall, the CSS-A offers a psychometrically sound and useful measure of multi-standard comparisons. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - October 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
