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Time intensive cognitive behavioural therapy for a specific phobia of vomiting: A single case experimental design
ConclusionsTime intensive CBT including an ImRs component may be an effective and acceptable treatment in reducing SPOV symptomatology. Further research using larger sample sizes in a RCT is needed. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - October 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Investigating the therapeutic potential of cognitive bias modification for high anxiety sensitivity
ConclusionsWhen considered within the context of previous research, the experimental effects and therapeutic potential of CBM-I for high AS appear to be minimal. However, methodological questions need to be resolved before such a conclusion can be considered definitive. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - October 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Avoidance of all feedback? Attention allocation during and after public speech in social anxiety
ConclusionsThese findings suggest that only in highly anxious social situations, socially anxious individuals lack the attentional preference toward positive feedback that individuals with low anxious have. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - October 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A randomised controlled trial of computerised interpretation bias modification for health anxiety
ConclusionsThis study is the first to evaluate the effect of internet-delivered CBM-I training targeting benign interpretations of bodily symptoms on health anxiety. Further research is needed before this intervention is disseminated. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - October 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Short-term affective consequences of specificity of rumination about unresolved personal goals
ConclusionsGreater levels of goal-focused rumination were associated with unhelpful affective consequences only when rumination was low in specificity. Specificity of thought content may be an important determinant of whether goal-focused rumination has helpful or unhelpful effects. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - October 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Nightmares distress revisited: Cognitive appraisal of nightmares according to Lazarus’ transactional model of stress
Publication date: Available online 26 September 2019Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental PsychiatryAuthor(s): Annika Gieselmann, Nina Elberich, Jonas Mathes, Reinhard PietrowskyAbstractAim of the current research was to newly conceptualize nightmare distress. The special focus was on the appraisal of nightmare distress while applying a theory-driven approach based on Lazarus’ (1966) transactional model of stress. It was argued that individuals feel the more distressed the more they feel threatened and harmed by their nightmares (primary appraisal according to Lazarus) and the more they lack of adequate co...
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Effects of processing positive memories on posttrauma mental health: A preliminary study in a non-clinical student sample
ConclusionsNarrating and processing specific positive memories had a beneficial impact on PTSD symptom severity, posttrauma maladaptive cognitions, and affect; such results provide an impetus to examine positive memory interventions in trauma clinical work. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Effects of awareness material featuring individuals with experience of depression and suicidal thoughts on an audience with depressive symptoms: Randomized controlled trial
ConclusionsVideos featuring personal experience of coping with depression appear safe for young individuals with similar or higher symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation on the short run, and might have some benefits.Trial registrationGerman Clinical Trial Registry, DRKS00015095 (registration date: 2018-07-16). (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Combining oxytocin and cognitive bias modification training in a randomized controlled trial: Effects on trust in maternal support
ConclusionsThis study combined a social learning paradigm with oxytocin in children. CBM training was effective at an automatic level of processing. Oxytocin did not enhance CBM effects or independently exert effects. Research in larger samples specifying when oxytocin might have beneficial effects is necessary before oxytocin can be used as intervention option in children. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Disrupted joint action accounts for reduced likability of socially anxious individuals
ConclusionReduced joint action may explain why socially anxious individuals tend to be perceived less positively by others. The findings emphasise the importance of taking an interpersonal and holistic approach to understanding aspects of social anxiety disorder. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Implicitly measured aggressiveness self-concepts in women with borderline personality disorder as assessed by an Implicit Association Test
ConclusionsThis study extends prior findings on aggression in BPD in that women with BPD do not only explicitly conceive themselves as more aggressive, but also exhibit implicitly more aggressive self-concepts than healthy controls. Because implicit and explicit self-related operations are related, but distinct processes, our results may hold clinical and therapeutic implications. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Social anxiety and the interpretation of morphed facial expressions following exclusion and inclusion
ConclusionsOur findings support and refine cognitive theories of SA, suggesting that interpretation biases for facial information in SA may be especially pronounced following exclusion. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - September 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A plea for more attention to mental representations
Publication date: Available online 27 August 2019Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental PsychiatryAuthor(s): Arnoud ArntzAbstractIn this invited essay I plead for a renewed attention to mental representations in research into psychopathology and its treatment. With the cognitive revolution in the second half of the previous century most psychological models of psychopathology were based on people's capacity to form mental representations of the world. However, much research effort was put into investigating cognitive biases instead of investigating mental representations, and attention shifted towards such bi...
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - August 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Editorial Board
Publication date: December 2019Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, Volume 65Author(s): (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - August 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Does approaching puppies and avoiding a dead cat improve the effectiveness of approach-avoidance training for changing the evaluation of feared stimuli?
ConclusionsBoth a typical and an adjusted version of the AAT procedure proved successful to change conditioned negative evaluations. We compare our findings to previous studies showing limited effectiveness of the AAT procedure with feared stimuli. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - August 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research