Recently added articles from Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy:
Intervening on Persistent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Rumination-Focused Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy in a Population of Young Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Jul 01, 2009; ... This study assessed the outcome of a brief rumination-focused cognitive and behavioral intervention in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among Rwandan adolescent survivors of the 1994 genocide. All participants (54.5% female, N = 22) aged between 15 and 18 years (M = 16.55, ...
Differential Sequencing of Cognitive-Behavioral Techniques for Reducing Child and Adolescent Anxiety
Jul 01, 2009; ... Treatment outcome research has rarely allowed investigators to declare how or why therapeutic techniques work. As an initial step to understand such change processes, the current study investigated the timing of positive changes typically achieved during a course of cognitive-behavioral therapy ...
Schema Content for a Threatening Situation: Responses to Expected and Unexpected Events
Jul 01, 2009; ... Although previous research has identified the components of event-based schemas, or scripts, for threatening situations in anxious individuals, no studies have examined how scripts change when anxious individuals are faced with a deviation in the expected sequence of events. In the present ...
Negative Self-Beliefs in Relation to Eating Disorder and Depressive Symptoms: Different Themes Are Characteristic of the Two Sets of Symptoms in Those With Eating Disorders and/or Depression
Jul 01, 2009; ... This study aimed to identify differences in the personal themes in negative self or core beliefs that might be characteristic of high levels of eating disorder symptoms when compared to high levels of depressive symptoms in those with an eating disorder and/or depression. Differences between ...
Catastrophizing the Consequences of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Jul 01, 2009; ... This study investigated whether patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) tend to (a) catastrophize the social and functional implications of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, and (b) have heightened visceral anxiety sensitivity. IBS patients, Crohn's disease patients, panic disorder patients, ...