Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed
Because challenges are ubiquitous, resilience is essential for success in school and in life. In this article we review research…
Rate of improvement during and across three treatments for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia: Cognitive behavioral therapy, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or both combined
Existing literature on panic disorder (PD) yields no data regarding the differential rates of improvement during Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT),…
Family Accommodation in Pediatric Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Despite the importance of the family in the treatment of pediatric obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), relatively little empirical attention has been…
Efficacy of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on Children With Anxiety
Anxiety spectrum disorders are the most common mental health problems among children (Semple, 2005). The lifetime estimates of anxiety disorders…
lnteroceptive Assessment and Exposure in Panic Disorder: A Descriptive Study
Cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) protocols for panic disorder (PD) typically include some farm of interoceptive exposure (1E)-- repeated exposure to…
The Effects of Youth Anxiety Treatment on School Impairment: Differential Outcomes Across CBT, Sertraline, and their Combination
Youth anxiety disorders are highly prevalent and are associated with considerable school impairment. Despite the identification of well-supported strategies for…
Obsessive beliefs, experiential avoidance, and cognitive fusion as predictors of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions
Cognitive models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), although widely-supported, do not fully explain obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms. Mid-level constructs from acceptance and…
Cognitive behavioural therapy with exposure and response prevention in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), incorporating exposure and response prevention (ERP) is widely recognised as the psychological treatment of choice for…
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, Sertraline, and Their Combination for Children and Adolescents With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The empirical literature on treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents supports the efficacy of short-term OCD-specific cognitive-behavior…
The Effectiveness of the Learning to BREATHE Program on Adolescent Emotion Regulation
This study assessed the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based program, Learning to BREATHE, on adolescent emotion regulation. Participants included 216 regular…
Self esteem, dependency, self-efficacy and self-criticism in social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by fear and avoidance in social situations where one perceives being in danger of…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes
The present article presents and reviews the model of psychopathology and treatment underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is…
Intolerance of uncertainty in youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder: A transdiagnostic construct with implications for phenomenology and treatment
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) are early-onset disorders with significant overlapping phenomenology, especially in young patients who,…
Six-Month Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial Augmenting Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment With Exposure and Ritual Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This article describes the long-term effects of augmenting serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) with exposure and ritual prevention or stress management…
Social Mishap Exposures for Social Anxiety Disorder: An Important Treatment Ingredient
Conventional cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder, which is closely based on the treatment for depression, has been shown to…
Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach
Exposure therapy is an effective approach for treating anxiety disorders, although a substantial number of individuals fail to benefit or…
Psychological and pharmacological treatments for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to provide updated pooled effect sizes of evidence-based psychotherapies and medications for generalized anxiety…
Acceptance and commitment therapy for anxiety and OCD spectrum disorders: An empirical review
A fair amount of research exists on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as a model and a treatment for anxiety…
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Imipramine, or Their Combination for Panic Disorder
Objective: To evaluate whether drug and psychosocial therapies for PD are each more effective than placebo, whether one treatment is…
Randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) versus acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for mixed anxiety disorders
Randomized comparisons of acceptance-based treatments with traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders are lacking. To address this research…
Self-Perception and Rumination in Social Anxiety
The present study examined the relationship between perceptions of performance and post-event processing (PEP) following task feedback in individuals with…