Metacognitive beliefs as a predictor of health anxiety in a self ‐reporting Italian clinical sample
Research has supported the specific role that anxiety sensitivity, health‐related dysfunctional beliefs, and metacognitive beliefs may play in the development and maintenance of health anxiety symptoms. However, the role of metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety has only been explored in analogue samples. The aim of this study was to explore for the first time the association between metacognitive beliefs and health anxiety symptoms in a sample of participants who reported having received a diagnosis of severe health anxiety (hypochondriasis) or illness anxiety disorder and test whether these beliefs are significant pre...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabriele Melli, Robin Bailey, Claudia Carraresi, Andrea Poli Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Late ‐adoptions in adolescence: Can attachment and emotion regulation influence behaviour problems? A controlled study using a moderation approach
A growing body of research suggests that, compared to normative adolescence, adoptive adolescence could be considered a specific risk condition characterized by more psychiatric problems, attachment insecurity, and emotional regulation difficulties as consequences of negative experiences in preadoption relationships. The current study explores (a) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between attachment representations (secure, dismissing, preoccupied, and disorganized) and behavioural problems and (b) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between emotion regulation processes (cognitiv...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cecilia Serena Pace, Simona Di Folco, Viviana Guerriero Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
What psychologists need to know about psychotropic medications
Despite the fact that today most of the patients with psychological disturbances assume some form of psychotropic drug treatment, clinical psychologists may have little familiarity with psychopharmacology and are substantially unaware of subtle and yet pervasive potential effects of medications in clinical presentations. In their training, psychologists are generally exposed, at best, to some general principles of drug action. Standard psychopharmacology textbooks tend to omit the subtle psychological changes that may occur during psychotropic drug treatment.
Clinical pharmacopsychology consists of the application of clini...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elena Tomba, Jenny Guidi, Giovanni A. Fava Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
If it is absurd, then why do you do it? The richer the obsessional experience, the more compelling the compulsion
Mounting evidence suggests that obsessive intrusions are often accompanied and amplified by perceptual experiences of different modalities (e.g., feeling dirt on one's skin while experiencing intrusive thoughts about contamination). Pilot studies conducted online with individuals endorsing mild obsessive–compulsive symptoms have linked the co‐occurrence of perceptual experiences and obsessions to the severity of subsequent compulsive behaviour as well as low insight. However, it is presently unclear whether sensory experiences accompany all types of obsessional thoughts or are restricted to certain preoccupations (e.g....
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steffen Moritz, Christine Purdon, Lena Jelinek, Brenda Chiang, Marit Hauschildt Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Convergent, incremental, and criterion ‐related validity of multi‐informant assessments of adolescents' fears of negative and positive evaluation
Adolescents who experience social anxiety tend to hold fears about negative evaluations (e.g., taunting) and may also hold fears about positive evaluations (e.g., praise from a teacher). The Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation (BFNE) scale and Fear of Positive Evaluation Scale (FPES) are 2 widely used measures of adults' evaluative concerns. Yet we know little about their psychometric properties when assessing adolescents. In a mixed clinical/community sample of 96 adolescents (66.7% female; M = 14.50 years, SD = 0.50; 63.3% African American), we examined both self‐report and parent report versions of the BFNE and FPE...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy N. Karp, Bridget A. Makol, Lauren M. Keeley, Noor Qasmieh, Danielle E. Deros, Justin W. Weeks, Sarah J. Racz, Melanie F. Lipton, Tara M. Augenstein, Andres De Los Reyes Tags: ASSESSMENT Source Type: research
The Pregnancy Related Beliefs Questionnaire (PRBQ): An examination of the psychometric properties in perinatal samples
ConclusionsThe PRBQ‐8 is a psychometrically sound measure of maternal attitudes that can be used antenatally to identify women at risk of post‐natal depression.Key Practitioner Message
The PRBQ‐8 is a valid and reliable measure of maladaptive maternal attitudes.
The PRBQ‐8 can help perinatal practitioners identify women who hold unhelpful beliefs regarding the maternal role.
Assessing maladaptive maternal attitudes during pregnancy can help identify women who may be at risk of developing postnatal depression. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dawn M. Leach, Philip Terry, Ana V. Nik čević Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Anaclitic –Introjective Depression Assessment: Development and preliminary validity of an observer‐rated measure
ConclusionTaken together, findings reported in this paper provide preliminary evidence for the reliability and validity of the Anaclitic–Introjective Depression Assessment, an observer‐rated measure that allows the detection of important nuanced differentiations between and within anaclitic and introjective depression. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Felicitas Rost, Patrick Luyten, Peter Fonagy Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Impaired emotion processing and a reduction in trust in patients with somatic symptom disorder
There is accumulating evidence for deficits in the perception and regulation of one's own emotions, as well as the recognition of others' emotions in somatic symptom disorder (SSD). However, investigations of SSD focusing on specific aspects of emotion processing and how these might interact are missing. We included 35 patients with SSD and 35 healthy controls who completed questionnaires on the perception and regulation of their own emotions, as well as experimental investigations of emotion recognition and trust. In line with previous studies, our results show that SSD patients in comparison to healthy controls have diff...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maja Erkic, Josef Bailer, Sabrina C. Fenske, Stephanie N. L. Schmidt, Jörg Trojan, Annette Schröder, Peter Kirsch, Daniela Mier Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Corrective emotional experience in an integrative affect ‐focused therapy: Building a preliminary model using task analysis
ConclusionsCEE is best represented by a preliminary model that depicts two parallel yet interacting change processes. Intrapersonal change process is similar to the sequence of change described by the emotional processing model (Pascual‐Leone & Greenberg, ), whereas interpersonal change process is a unique contribution of this study. Interpersonal change process was facilitated when the therapist's active stance and use of immediacy responses to make their relational process explicit allowed a shared exploration. Therapist affirmation bridged intrapersonal change to interpersonal change by promoting an adaptive sense...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kaori Nakamura, Shigeru Iwakabe Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Continuity between DSM ‐5 Section II and Section III personality traits for obsessive–compulsive personality disorder
ConclusionsThese findings indicate that the traits proposed in Section III are only partially aligned with the traditional, Section II conceptualization of OCPD, and may be augmented by incorporating Submissiveness, Suspiciousness, and (low) Impulsivity. In light of the current findings and existing literature, a modified constellation of traits to operationalize OCPD is likely justified.Key Practitioner Message
Rigid Perfectionism, Perseveration, and Restricted Affectivity emerged as Section III OCPD traits that were substantially associated with the Section II categorical criteria of OCPD.
Rigid Perfectionism is strongly...
Source: Clinical Psychology - September 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jacqueline Liggett, Martin Sellbom, Bo Bach Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Different aspects of emotional intelligence of borderline personality disorder
Clinical Psychology&Psychotherapy,Volume 25, Issue 1, Page e51-e59, January/February 2018. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - August 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Improving functional outcome in bipolar disorder: A pilot study on metacognitive training
Clinical Psychology&Psychotherapy,Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 50-58, January/February 2018. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - August 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How do women's partners view perinatal mental health services? A qualitative meta ‐synthesis
Clinical Psychology&Psychotherapy,Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 112-129, January/February 2018. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - August 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Preschool children's response to behavioural parent training and parental predictors of outcome in routine clinical care
Clinical Psychology&Psychotherapy,Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 1-9, January/February 2018. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - August 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Clinical Psychology&Psychotherapy,Volume 25, Issue 1, Page e51-e59, January/February 2018. (Source: Clinical Psychology)
Source: Clinical Psychology - August 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
