To Approach or to Avoid: The Role of Ambivalent Motivation Towards High Calorie Food Images in Restrained Eaters
ConclusionsThese findings suggest that motivation to attend to and avoid food images are important factors to study, as they are associated with attentional biases and eating pathology. Clinical implications are also discussed. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Positive Prospective Mental Imagery Characteristics in Young Adults and Their Associations with Depressive Symptoms
ConclusionsWe identified PPMI themes in young adults and found significant negative associations between depressive symptoms and vividness and generation ease of PPMIs. These results may inform prevention and intervention science, including the design of personalized interventions. We discuss implications for future studies and treatment development for individuals experiencing diminished PPMI. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Group Interventions: A Systematic Review
AbstractBackgroundTransdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy (tCBT) has presented itself as an intervention proposal that aims to integrate the common processes of human functioning with the therapeutic strategies of conventional cognitive-behavioral therapy, considered the gold standard for treating numerous disorders.ObjectiveAs far as we know, this review is the first to specifically evaluate transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral interventions in groups. This review aimed to systematically examine the evidence regarding the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral transdiagnostic interventions in groups for the adult populatio...
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 27, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Microaggressions and Cannabis-Related Problems Among Black Adults: The Roles of Negative Affect and Cannabis Use Motives
ConclusionsRace-based microaggressions are robustly related to more cannabis-related problems and negative affect and cannabis use to manage that affect may play important roles in that relation. Results can inform theoretical models and intervention efforts geared toward reducing risky cannabis use in this health disparities group. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Multimodal Remote Research on Social Anxiety Using a New Teleconferencing Paradigm
ConclusionsTaken together, these findings suggest that the simulated teleconferencing interaction framework introduced here offers a potentially useful approach for the remote investigation of mechanisms underpinning social anxiety. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - April 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Safety Behaviors Predict Long-Term Treatment Outcome Following Internet-Based Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder
ConclusionsThis study highlights the potential importance of considering safety behaviors as a social anxiety maintenance factor following treatment. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 31, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effectiveness of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Versus Treatment as Usual for Depression in Routine Specialized Mental Healthcare: E-COMPARED Trial in the Netherlands
ConclusionApplying bCBT in routine specialized mental health care seems promising, but is a relatively new form of treatment that is still under development and more research is needed.Clinical Trial RegistrationNetherlands Trials Register NTR4962. Registered on 5 January 2015. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
What Cognitions Best Predict Disturbed Anger in Adults? A Revision of the Anger Cognitions Scale
This study aims to provide insight into the specific cognitive constructs that are most strongly correlated with disturbed anger and could guide the development of more effective cognitive-behavioral treatments. The Anger Cognitions Scale-Revised (ACS-R) presents participants with nine scenarios of anger-provoking events and asks them to indicate the degree to which the situations would trigger the experience of seven different cognitive processes: hostile attributions, negative consequences of anger, inflammatory labeling, demandingness, frustration intolerance, awfulizing, and overgeneralization. The current study tested...
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Return to Baseline After an Interpretation Training as a Dynamic Predictor for Treatment Response in Social Anxiety Disorder
ConclusionThese findings suggest that slower return to baseline as a resilience index does not have predictive value for CBT-outcome in individuals with SAD. Future studies should incorporate experience-sampling to capture subtle changes in interpretation bias. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Moderating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty in the Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Pandemic-Related Stress
ConclusionThese results suggest that individuals with elevated health anxiety and high prospective IU may be at higher risk of experiencing COVID-related stress, illuminating the interplay of risk factors that place anxious populations at an increased risk of experiencing stress during acute health risks. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Reduced Attention Towards Accomplishments Mediates the Effect of Self-Critical Rumination on Regret
ConclusionThese findings suggest that reduced attention towards accomplishments may be an underlying mechanism in the link between rumination and regret, and interventions could target this attentional bias for therapeutic benefit. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Properties of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Chinese Patients with Depression and Healthy Individuals
ConclusionsThese findings support the view that general involuntary memories could be a potential target to promote the treatment for depression. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Direct and Interactive Effects of Personality and Experiencing Changes in Relationships on Symptoms of Internalizing Psychopathology During the COVID-19 Pandemic
ConclusionThese results suggest that higher levels of extraversion may protect against symptoms of stress reactivity and anxiety that are associated with COVID-related changes in friendships, while neuroticism may have limited prospective associations with symptoms during the pandemic. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Perfectionism as Possible Predictor for Treatment Success in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Metacognitive Training as Third-Wave Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
ConclusionThese results suggest that initial concern over mistakes may not prevent patients with OCD from benefitting from third-wave treatments. Change in clinical perfectionism may present a putative process of therapeutic change. Limitations and avenues for future research are discussed. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Longitudinal Relations Between Emotion Regulation and Internalizing Symptoms in Emerging Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic
ConclusionsEmotion regulation and internalizing symptoms might be temporally stable individual differences that cooccur with one another as opposed to having a more dynamic relation. Alternatively, these dynamic mechanisms might operate over much shorter or longer periods compared to the two-week time lag in the current study. (Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research)
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - March 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
