abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated levels of anxiety and panic are common in respiratory disease. To date the cognitive-behavioural model of panic has been utilised to help explain and manage panic in respiratory disease. This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between illness perceptions and panic in chronic obstruc...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Howard C,Hallas CN,Wray J,Carby M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichotillomania is an impairing condition that involves repetitive hair pulling. Habit reversal therapy is helpful for many persons with this disorder. Unfortunately, habit reversal therapy is not helpful for everyone and maintenance of gains is often problematic. Successful habit reversal therapy requires the indivi...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Himle JA,Perlman DM,Lokers LM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined cognitive content-specificity in future-event predictions associated with symptoms of depression and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). College undergraduates (N=284) completed measures of depression, GAD, and rated their certainty that a given set of positive and negative outcomes were or ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Miranda R,Fontes M,Marroquín B

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been much recent controversy regarding whether or not the use of safety and other neutralizing behaviour interferes with exposure-based therapy. The aim of this study was to examine the role of safety behaviour in the treatment of specific phobia. Sixty-two snake-fearful participants were randomized to a 45-...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Milosevic I,Radomsky AS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research suggests that socially anxious individuals interpret ambiguous social information in a more threatening manner compared to non-anxious individuals. Recently, studies have experimentally modified interpretation and shown that this subsequently affected anxiety in non-anxious individuals. If similar pr...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Beard C,Amir N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effectiveness of a combined methylphenidate/behavioural treatment (BT) versus methylphenidate-only for Chinese children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was tested in routine clinical practice in Hong Kong. METHODS:A randomized group comparison design was adopted with two treatment c...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： So CY,Leung PW,Hung SF

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One line of research has examined attentional bias as a potential maintenance factor in social anxiety using cognitive experiment paradigms. The present study sought to examine the utility of the inattentional blindness (IB) paradigm for assessing attentional bias in social anxiety. Unlike other existing paradigms suc...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Lee HJ,Telch MJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation examined the relation between perceived alienation from parents and peers, anxiety sensitivity (AS), and current worry and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms with the goal of expanding the knowledge base on factors that may contribute to the development of AS and its role in worry. The medi...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Viana AG,Rabian B

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ehlers and Clark [(2000). A cognitive model of post-traumatic stress disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38, 319-345] cognitive model of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been relatively untested with children. Seventy-five children (7-16 years) were interviewed within 4 weeks of an injury that led to ho...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： McKinnon AC,Nixon RD,Brewer N

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment methods relying on biased or inaccurate retrospective recall may distort knowledge about the nature of disorders and lead to faulty clinical inferences. Despite concerns about the accuracy of retrospective recall in general and in particular with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients, the accuracy of...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Gloster AT,Richard DC,Himle J,Koch E,Anson H,Lokers L,Thornton J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study employed both exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic approaches with nationally representative samples of individuals with a lifetime diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (n=1123; n=3091, respectively) using split-halves of the National Comorbidity Replication Survey (n=9282) and cross-validate...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Cox BJ,Clara IP,Sareen J,Stein MB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether disgust-valenced information has an impact on children's fear beliefs about animals. Non-clinical children aged between 9 and 13 years (n=159) were presented with disgust-related and cleanliness-related information about unknown animals (Australian marsupials). Before and after i...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Muris P,Mayer B,Huijding J,Konings T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients with chronic pain also exhibit elevated levels of health anxiety. This study examined the effect of health anxiety on the use of safety-seeking behaviors (SSBs) in pain-provoking situations. Participants were 20 chronic back pain patients with high health anxiety (Group H), 20 with low health anxiety (Gr...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Tang NK,Salkovskis PM,Poplavskaya E,Wright KJ,Hanna M,Hester J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research suggests that formerly dysphoric individuals engage in effortful strategies (e.g., thought suppression) that may mask underlying depressive thinking. The addition of a cognitive load, such as recalling a 6-digit number, which interferes with effortful mental control, reveals depressive thinking in fo...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Watkins ER,Moulds M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study assessed the processing of facial displays of emotion (Happy, Disgust, and Neutral) of varying emotional intensities in participants with high vs. low social anxiety. Use of facial expressions of varying intensities allowed for strong external validity and a fine-grained analysis of interpretation bi...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Schofield CA,Coles ME,Gibb BE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary models of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) posit that worry functions as an avoidance strategy. During worry, individuals inhibit threat-related imagery in order to minimize autonomic reactivity to phobic topics. This conceptualization of worry suggests a role for the executive system in exerting top-do...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Price RB,Mohlman J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A randomized controlled trial (N=52) was conducted comparing cognitive-behavioral therapy with a waiting list control group to identify mediators and predictors of treatment outcome. Reduction of weight concerns mediated abstinence of binge eating at post-treatment. Abstinence was marginally mediated by changes in eat...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Dingemans AE,Spinhoven P,van Furth EF

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preferential preattentive processing towards threat has been proposed to play a casual role in the development of anxiety, mainly because it reliably predicts emotional responding to stressful events. However, in the investigation of the predictive value of preferential preattentive processing towards threat, the emot...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Najström M,Jansson B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OCD patients experience increased feelings of guilt, threat and uncertainty about harm prevention. As to the relation between these phenomena, it was hypothesised that the experience of guilt acts as "information" that increases the sense of threat and decreases the sense that preventive action is effective. We tested...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Gangemi A,Mancini F,van den Hout M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested a contextual model of disaster reaction by examining regional differences in the psychosocial impact of Hurricane Katrina. A total of 386 individuals participated in this study. All were recruited in the primary areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and included residents of metropolitan New Orleans (O...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Weems CF,Watts SE,Marsee MA,Taylor LK,Costa NM,Cannon MF,Carrion VG,Pina AA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present school-based study investigated the nighttime fears of 511 children and adolescents, aged 8-16 years. Participants were assessed using a structured interview about the frequency, content, severity, harm expectations, coping strategies, and disclosure of nighttime fears. Results indicated that nighttime fea...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Gordon J,King N,Gullone E,Muris P,Ollendick TH

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research examining the diathesis-stress component of the hopelessness theory (HT) in youth has provided mixed support for the theory. One explanation for inconsistent findings is the failure to consider relationships among the three inferential styles posited to serve as vulnerability factors by the theory. The weakes...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Abela JR,McGirr A,Skitch SA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide risk is thought to increase with a greater potential for activation of suicide-related schemas. Suicide schemas are less likely to be activated with reductions of emotional range associated with certain negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The study tested whether suicide risk would increase in patients with re...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Tarrier N,Gooding P,Gregg L,Johnson J,Drake R,Socrates Trial Group.

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on emotional disturbance during pregnancy and the postpartum period has focused primarily on mood disorders and psychosis, yet preliminary evidence suggests that early parenthood is also associated with an increased risk for the development and exacerbation of obsessional problems. In this article we describe...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Fairbrother N,Abramowitz JS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychological consequences of traumatic stress may last even into old age. In persons in their 60s and 70s who had been victims of political detention and torture four decades ago, we compared the outcome of narrative exposure therapy (NET) to that of psychoeducation (PED) only. From a group of 59 former political...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Bichescu D,Neuner F,Schauer M,Elbert T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals vulnerable to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are hypothesized to have ambivalence about their self-worth, morality and lovability [Guidano, V., & Liotti, G. (1983). Cognitive processes and emotional disorders. New York: Guildford Press]. The purpose of this study was to examine whether self-ambivalenc...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Bhar SS,Kyrios M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Eating disorder NOS" is the most common eating disorder encountered in outpatient settings yet it has been neglected. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of eating disorder NOS, establish its severity, and determine whether its high relative prevalence might be due to the inclusion of cases clos...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Fairburn CG,Cooper Z,Bohn K,O'Connor ME,Doll HA,Palmer RL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Failures to retrieve specific memories have been related to general tendencies to commit errors in executive functioning tasks, raising the question of whether they are simply a reflection of randomly occurring lapses in cognitive control or whether their occurrence is in any way related to memory content. This study ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Barnhofer T,Crane C,Spinhoven P,Williams JM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfectionism is a complex psychological construct that has been defined in many different ways. Recent conceptualisations of perfectionism have involved dividing the construct into positive and negative components. Negative perfectionism is associated with high emotional distress whereas positive perfectionism is ass...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Egan SJ,Piek JP,Dyck MJ,Rees CS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tendency to perceive anxious states as aversive and harmful is hypothesized to confer vulnerability to the development of anxiety disorders. The most commonly used measure of anxiety sensitivity, the Anxiety Sensitivity Index [ASI; Reiss, S., Peterson, R.A., Gursky, D.M., & McNally R.J. (1986). Anxiety sensitivity...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Rector NA,Szacun-Shimizu K,Leybman M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This two-part study examined the role of the responsibility to continue thinking, beliefs that one needs prolonged thinking about stressful problems, in the prediction of excessive worry. This construct is considered to reflect high levels of motivation to continue inflexible thinking and the use of rigid stop rules. ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Sugiura Y

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that high socially anxious individuals lack the benign interpretation bias present in people without social anxiety. The tendency of high socially anxious people to generate more negative interpretations may lead to anticipated anxiety about future social situations. If so, developing a mor...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Murphy R,Hirsch CR,Mathews A,Smith K,Clark DM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this treatment effectiveness study was to evaluate the flexible application of a manualized cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) for PTSD and related symptoms in survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Treatment delivery ranged from 12 to 25 sessions; therapist experience range...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Levitt JT,Malta LS,Martin A,Davis L,Cloitre M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychological consequences of bullying have been the focus of much research over the last 25 years. However, the relationship between bullying and psychotic experiences has been relatively ignored despite the weight of evidence which suggests that traumatic events in childhood are significantly related to psychoti...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Campbell ML,Morrison AP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study tests the hypothesis that worry is associated with psychotic experiences and examines whether worry would contribute significantly to emotional response independently of the intensity of psychotic experiences. This study also explores differences in worry between patients with a diagnosis of a sch...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Morrison AP,Wells A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcomes for cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have rarely been compared to those in routine clinical practice. Taking the case of CBT for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), we evaluated the results of a successful RCT against those of the same treatment given in the same setting as...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Quarmby L,Rimes KA,Deale A,Wessely S,Chalder T

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation sought to examine the interactive effects of anxiety sensitivity [AS; Reiss, S., & McNally, R. J. (1985). Expectancy model of fear. In S. Reiss, & R. R. Bootzin (Eds.), Theoretical issues in behavior therapy (pp. 107-121). San Diego: Academic Press] and mindfulness [Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Vujanovic AA,Zvolensky MJ,Bernstein A,Feldner MT,McLeish AC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies were conducted to test a dual-process theory of cognitive vulnerability to depression. According to this theory, implicit and explicit cognitive processes have differential effects on depressive reactions to stressful life events. Implicit processes are hypothesized to be critical in determining an individ...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Haeffel GJ,Abramson LY,Brazy PC,Shah JY,Teachman BA,Nosek BA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a psychometric evaluation of the Claustrophobia Scale (CS), consisting of one subscale for measuring anxiety (20 items, 0-4) and one for avoidance (18 items, 0-2). Participants were 87 claustrophobic patients and 200 normal controls randomly selected from the community. The results show that CS h...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Ost LG

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to determine interidentity retrieval of emotionally valenced words in dissociative identity disorder (DID). Twenty-two DID patients participated together with 25 normal controls and 25 controls instructed to simulate DID. Two wordlists A and B were constructed including neutral, positive and ne...

journal_title：Behaviour research and therapy

authors： Huntjens RJ,Peters ML,Woertman L,van der Hart O,Postma A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00