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Open Access 24-04-2024 | Original Article

Intrusive Mental Imagery in Chronic Pain: Prevalence and Associations with Common Comorbidities

Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists for more than three months and characterised by significant emotional distress (International Classification of Diseases, 2021 ; ICD-11). Sub-categories include musculoskeletal pain, cancer-related pain …

Auteurs:
Jake Maxwell Watts, Simon E. Blackwell, Jo Daniels

23-04-2024 | Original Article

The Regretted Actions and Inactions of Military Veterans and Psychological Problems

Military Service Members confront a wide variety of scenarios and events that are associated with psychological difficulties and long-lasting functional impairment (e.g., Maguen et al., 2020 ). Stein and colleagues ( 2012 ) found evidence for the …

Auteurs:
Christian L. Williams, Howard Berenbaum

23-04-2024 | Original Article

Interpretation Bias and Adolescent Social Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Pre- and Post-Event Rumination

The purpose of Study 1 was to examine whether the inclination to interpret social cues increases adolescents’ SA via pre- and post-event rumination. We hypothesized that the level of IB at baseline would enhance participants’ pre-event rumination …

Auteurs:
Meng Yu, Jianping Wang

23-04-2024 | Original Article

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Brief Conflict Reappraisal Intervention for Community Couples with Young Children

The Love Together, Parent Together research program (L2P2) was designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of bolstering the relationships of parents with young children and preserving family well-being (Prime et al., 2022 , 2023 …

Auteurs:
Heather Prime, Amy Muise, Marc Jambon, Maya Koven, Alexandra Markwell, Mark Wade

28-03-2024 | Original Article

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Factors Related to Outcomes in Depression Among Youth with HIV

Youth with HIV (YWH) have high rates of comorbid depression (Benton et al., 2019 ; Brown et al., 2021 ), with some reports as high as 37% (Lynn et al., 2019 ). Treating depressive symptoms is critical, as depression can interfere with HIV treatment …

Auteurs:
Betsy D. Kennard, Larry K. Brown, Kristin Baltrusaitis, Miriam Chernoff, Graham J. Emslie, Jessica Jones, Sarah Buisson, Jaime Deville, Megan Wilkins, Amber Bunch, Chivon McMullen Jackson, Christy Beneri, David E. Shapiro, and IMPAACT 2002 Team

Open Access 25-03-2024 | Original Article

Attention and Interpretation Bias Modification Transfers to Memory Bias: Testing the Combined Cognitive Bias Hypothesis

Depression, as underscored by cognitive theories and empirical evidence, is marked by emotional cognitive biases. This suggests a preference for processing negative information over neutral or positive information (for a review, see Mathews & …

Auteurs:
Zhen Zhang, Janna N. Vrijsen, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez, Ernst H.W. Koster, Eni S. Becker

21-03-2024 | Original Article

Therapeutic Potential of Embodied Cognition for Clinical Psychotherapies: From Theory to Practice

The field of clinical psychology faces fragmentation stemming from diverse theoretical traditions, impeding a unified understanding of mental health (Gilbert, 2019 ; Gilbert & Kirby, 2019 ; Salvatore, 2011 ). The oversimplification of mental …

Auteurs:
Jennifer M. B. Fugate, Sheila L. Macrine, Eva M. Hernandez-Cuevas

16-03-2024 | Brief Report

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

Auteurs:
Hadar Naftalovich, Dan Sacks, Eldad Keha, Eyal Kalanthroff

16-03-2024 | Original Article

Relationship Between Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Social Support and Their Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Korean Emerging Adults

Emerging adulthood is a distinct developmental phase that falls between adolescence and adulthood (Arnett, 2000 ). During this period, these groups suffer from external transitions (Goldscheider & Goldscheider, 1999 ), which naturally leads to …

Auteurs:
Hyunmo Seong, Hajin Lim, Gi-Eun Jang, Gippeum Park, Jieun Kang, Sang Min Lee

04-03-2024 | Brief Report

Social Anxiety, Drinking Game Motives, and Drinking Game Outcomes Among a Large Multisite Sample of University Students

Using a large, multisite sample of undergraduates, the current study builds on prior work (e.g., George et al., 2019 ; Johnson et al., 1998 ; Kenney et al., 2014 ; Mulligan et al., 2016 ) by conducting a secondary analysis of an existing dataset of …

Auteurs:
Katherine Walukevich-Dienst, Byron L. Zamboanga, Amie R. Newins, Makayla L. Dehmer, Lindsay S. Ham, Timothy J. Grigsby, Su Yeong Kim

04-03-2024 | Original Article

Hopelessness as a Mechanism of the Relationship between Physical Pain and Thoughts of Suicide: Results from Two Smartphone-Based Real-Time Monitoring Samples

A review of the literature by Kirtley et al. ( 2020 ) highlights the multitude of psychological factors that are shared by chronic pain and suicidal populations (e.g., future orientation, defeat, and mental imagery). Moreover, there is a growing …

Auteurs:
Hannah R. Krall, Allison K. Ruork, Shireen L. Rizvi, Evan M. Kleiman

04-03-2024 | Original Article

Altered Neural Activity during Negative Reinforcement in People with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) causes significant disability and societal costs worldwide (Murray et al., 1996 ). OCD is characterized by obsessions (repetitive and intrusive internal events, including thoughts and images) and compulsions …

Auteurs:
Benjamin Panny, Rebecca B. Price, Anna Wears, Susanne E. Ahmari

Open Access 28-02-2024 | Original Article

Self-Burdensomeness, Self-Esteem and Suicidal Ideation

Self-esteem refers to an individual’s subjective evaluation of their worth as a person (Leary & Baumeister, 2000 ), which includes aspects of self-acceptance, self-satisfaction, and self-respect. Low self-esteem, in turn, is characterized by a …

Auteurs:
Tobias Teismann, Thomas E. Joiner, Morgan Robison, Julia Brailovskaia

Open Access 20-02-2024 | Original Article

Endogenous Cortisol Levels, Sleep or Vigilance: Which Factors Contribute to Better Exposure Therapy Outcomes in the Morning?

Although exposure therapy is considered the gold standard in the treatment of anxiety and stressor-related disorders, there is a substantial proportion of patients, who do not profit from treatment, and relapse is a common problem (Michael et al. …

Auteurs:
Marie Roxanne Sopp, Sarah K. Schäfer, Tanja Michael, Monika Equit, Diana S. Ferreira de Sá, Johanna Lass-Hennemann

Open Access 10-02-2024 | Original Article

Pilot Study Dismantling the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy: Identifying the Active Ingredients

The present pilot study denotes the first step of a component analysis project (Kazdin, 2007 ; Kazdin & Nock, 2003 ) that ultimately (over-time) may result in the identification of the mechanisms of change involved in the evidenced-based treatment …

Auteurs:
Lee R. Long, Mark Foster, Kara Burr, J. Kim Penberthy, Tracy N. Baker, James P. McCullough Jr.

03-02-2024 | Correction

Correction to: The Roles of Intrusive Visual Imagery and Verbal Thoughts in Pre-Sleep Arousal of Patients with Insomnia Disorder: A Path Model

Auteurs:
Kutlu Kağan Türkarslan, Deniz Canel Çınarbaş, Lampros Perogamvros

29-01-2024 | Original Article

Gender Differences in Shame Among Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder

Auteurs:
Roni Oren-Yagoda, May Rosenblum, Idan M. Aderka

Open Access 28-01-2024 | Original Article

When Average Isn't Good Enough: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups in Clinical Data

Most studies in medical and behavioral science use statistics with the assumption that the conclusions derived from calculated mean-level results apply at least probabilistically to most members of the sample. Said in another way, it is assumed …

Auteurs:
Andrew T. Gloster, Matthias Nadler, Victoria Block, Elisa Haller, Julian Rubel, Charles Benoy, Jeanette Villanueva, Klaus Bader, Marc Walter, Undine Lang, Stefan G. Hofmann, Joseph Ciarrochi, Steven C. Hayes

28-01-2024 | Original Article

Self-Reported and Physiological Reactions to Thin and Non-Thin Bodies: Understanding Motivational Processes Associated with Disordered Eating

Auteurs:
Samantha Wilson, Adrienne Mehak, Sarah E. Racine

19-01-2024 | Original Article

Utility of the Death-Implicit Association Test in a Sample of Suicidal Inpatients

Auteurs:
Kayla A. Lord, Tyler B. Rice, Hannah C. Levy, Kimberly S. Sain, Jessica Stubbing, Gretchen J. Diefenbach, David F. Tolin