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Publication date: Available online 7 March 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Sarah L. Garnaat, Christine A. Conelea, Nicole C.R. McLaughlin, Kristen BenitoAbstractThe NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative was established with the goal of developing an alternative research classification to further research efforts in mental health. While RDoC acknowledges that constructs should be considered within a developmental framework, developmental considerations have not yet been well integrated within the existing RDoC matrix. In this paper, we consider RDoC in relation to pediat...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Biomedical causal attributions for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Associations with patient perceptions of prognosis and treatment expectancy
Publication date: Available online 7 March 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Marina Gershkovich, Brett J. Deacon, Michael G. WheatonAbstractIn recent years, with scientific advances and growing understanding of neurobiological processes, biomedical explanations of psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), have become more prominent in research and in clinical care. Patient perceptions of biomedical models of OCD have been understudied, particularly in how they relate to patients’ beliefs about prognosis and treatment expectancy. The current study measu...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Emotion regulation and hoarding symptoms
Publication date: Available online 19 March 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Jasmine K. Taylor, Richard Moulding, Maja NedeljkovicAbstractHoarding disorder is a disabling condition associated with significant health risks, and social, occupational, and economic impairment. While the cognitive-behavioral model of compulsive hoarding has been successful in explaining the phenomenology of hoarding, recent research has suggested emotion regulation (ER) might play an important role in driving hoarding symptoms. To investigate this notion, two non-clinical questionnaire studies were con...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
The relationship of inferential confusion and obsessive beliefs with specific obsessive-compulsive symptoms
This study aimed to investigate the specificity of inferential confusion and obsessive beliefs to symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The construct of inferential confusion is grounded in an Inference-Based Approach (IBA) to the study of OCD, which maintains that dysfunctional reasoning plays a central role in its development, whereas other cognitive models have emphasized the role of obsessive beliefs in the escalation of intrusive thoughts into obsessions. To investigate the role of inferential confusion and obsessive beliefs, a group of individuals diagnosed with OCD (N = 296) completed the Inferential ...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Associations between mental contamination, disgust, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the context of trauma
Publication date: April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 17Author(s): Rachel Ojserkis, Dean McKay, Antoine LebeautAbstractMental contamination (MC), feeling dirty in the absence of a physical contaminant, has been linked to the basic emotion of disgust. Both MC and disgust have been associated with posttraumatic stress (PTS) and obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms occurring separately as well as together. However, there is no consensus on the specific ways in which these constructs interact with each other, PTS, or OC symptoms. Thus, this study sought to specify the associations betw...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
The origins of mental contamination
ConclusionContact contamination tends to precede mental contamination and is associated with specific incidents. Mental contamination precedents often involved immoral acts (direct learning) in which the person was the victim or perpetrator. In contrast contact contamination fears showed a more equal distribution of direct, vicarious and informational. This study is limited by a small sample size and retrospective method but provides an initial understanding of the origins of mental contamination. (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Mental contamination obsessions: An examination across the obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions
Publication date: April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 17Author(s): Ryan J. Jacoby, Shannon M. Blakey, Lillian Reuman, Jonathan S. AbramowitzAbstractMental contamination (MC) is an experience in which individuals feel dirty or impure even though they have not come into direct contact with a contaminated object (e.g., merely thinking about something immoral or disgusting). Although limited research has examined MC in relation to contact contamination-relevant cognitions and symptoms, no studies to date have investigated the extent to which this construct is associated with the “u...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Mental contamination and trauma: Understanding posttraumatic stress, risky behaviors, and help-seeking attitudes
This study examined relationships among mental contamination, posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, mood-dependent risky behaviors, and help-seeking attitudes among 232 trauma-exposed undergraduates. Participants completed self-report measures of mental contamination, contact contamination, PTS symptoms, mood-dependent risky behaviors, and help-seeking attitudes. While accounting for effects of contact contamination, biological sex, and unwanted sexual contact, results indicated mental contamination was positively linked to PTS symptoms. When accounting for PTS symptoms, mental contamination demonstrated a significant posit...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Abnormal and normal mental contamination
Publication date: April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 17Author(s): Adam S. Radomsky, Anna Coughtrey, Roz Shafran, S. RachmanAbstractMental contamination is defined and the main features of the phenomenon are set out. In addition to the familiar form of abnormal mental contamination, as evident in psychological disorders, notably Obsessive-compulsive Disorder, the phenomenon of non-clinical mental contamination is common. The clinical form is distressing, uncontrollable, constant and dysfunctional. The normal phenomenon can be disturbing but it is usually dormant, evoked intermitt...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Examining associations between thought-action fusion and state mental contamination following an in vivo thought induction task
Publication date: April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 17Author(s): Thomas A. Fergus, Wade C. RowattAbstractIntrusive thoughts can evoke an internal cue of distress known as mental contamination and thought-action fusion (TAF) is a potentially important individual difference variable for understanding the experience of mental contamination following intrusive thoughts. A large sample of college students (N = 320) completed a thought-induction task to examine how (a) TAF relates to three indices of state mental contamination (dirtiness, number of perceived dirty body locations, urg...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
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Publication date: April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 17Author(s): (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
The polluted mind: Understanding mental contamination as a transdiagnostic phenomenon
Publication date: April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Volume 17Author(s): Shannon M. Blakey, Ryan J. JacobyAbstractThe transdiagnostic approach to conceptualizing anxiety disorders posits that (a) these conditions have more similarities than differences and (b) treatments for clinical anxiety are improved by greater understanding of mechanisms shared among the anxiety disorders. Accordingly, researchers have sought to examine psychological phenomena relevant to multiple anxiety-related conditions. One such phenomenon is mental contamination: the syndrome whereby an individual feels “d...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Mental contamination: Relationship with psychopathology and transdiagnostic processes
ConclusionsMental contamination is associated with a range of psychopathology but is most strongly associated with symptoms of OCD. Further research is warranted to advance treatment for mental contamination. (Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders)
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Telepsychotherapy for trichotillomania: A randomized controlled trial of ACT enhanced behavior therapy
Publication date: Available online 21 April 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Eric B. Lee, Jack A. Haeger, Michael E. Levin, Clarissa W. Ong, Michael P. TwohigAbstractDespite its prevalence, quality treatment for trichotillomania is often difficult to find. The use of telepsychology has been an effective method for disseminating treatment services for a variety of mental health conditions. However, no research has examined the use of telepsychology to treat trichotillomania. This randomized controlled trial used Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Enhanced Behavior Therapy delivered ...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted!
Publication date: Available online 7 May 2018Source: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related DisordersAuthor(s): Cristina Ottaviani, Alberto Collazzoni, Francesca D’Olimpio, Tania Moretta, Francesco ManciniAbstractThe emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy particip...
Source: Journal of Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
