Recently added articles from Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy:

New Directions in Health Anxiety: Introduction to the Special Issue

Jul 01, 2008; Abramowitz, Jonathan S ... Health concerns are universal-why shouldn't they be? Good health is vital to our survival, and threats to physical well-being are virtuously ubiquitous. We can hardly turn on the evening news or peruse the cable TV lineup without finding accounts of new disease epidemics and information about ...

Comparison of Unitary and Multidimensional Models of the Whiteley Index in a Nonclinical Sample: Implications for Understanding and Assessing Health Anxiety

Jul 01, 2008; Asmundson, Gordon J G; Carleton, R Nicholas; Bovell, Candice V; Taylor, Steven ... Health anxiety is an important but poorly assessed phenomenon. Manifesting along a continuum, health anxiety is the result of a catastrophic appraisal of somatic sensations and changes as indicative of disease. The Whiteley Index (WI) is one of the most widely used self-report measures for ...

Psychometric Evaluation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits: Factor Structure and Relationship to Anxiety Sensitivity

Jul 01, 2008; Stewart, Sherry H; Sherry, Simon B; Watt, Margo C; Grant, Valerie V; Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D ... The Multidimensional Inventory of Hypochondriacal Traits (MIHT; Longley, Watson, & Noyes, 2005) appears to address shortcomings of other common measures of health anxiety, but further research is required prior to using this measure in treatment planning and outcome assessment. This study ...

Is Hypochondriasis Related to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, or Both? An Empirical Evaluation

Jul 01, 2008; Deacon, Brett; Abramowitz, Jonathan S ... Although hypochondriasis (HC) is considered a somatoform disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text revision), some authors have pointed out that the symptoms of HC overlap with certain anxiety disorders, namely, panic disorder (PD) and ...

Specificity of Childhood Learning Experiences in Relation to Anxiety Sensitivity and Illness/Injury Sensitivity: Implications for Health Anxiety and Pain

Jul 01, 2008; Watt, Margo C; O'Connor, Roisin M; Stewart, Sherry H; Moon, Erin C; Terry, Lesley ... Health anxiety refers to the preoccupation with and fear of bodily sensations arising from catastrophic misinterpretations about the significance of these sensations (Hadjistavropoulos, Asmundson, & Kowalyk, 2004). Constructs theoretically relevant to the development of both health anxiety ...

A Behavioral-Genetic Analysis of Health Anxiety: Implications for the Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Hypochondriasis

Jul 01, 2008; Taylor, Steven; Jang, Kerry L; Stein, Murray B; Asmundson, Gordon J G ... The leading contemporary cognitive-behavioral model of excessive health anxiety (HA) emphasizes the importance of environmental factors, such as learning experiences. The model has little to say about the role of genetic factors and, by ignoring these factors, seems to imply that they are ...

Enhancing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Monosymptomatic Hypochondriasis With Motivational Interviewing: Three Case Illustrations

Jul 01, 2008; McKay, Dean; Bouman, Theo K ... Monosymptomatic hypochondriasis (MSH) is frequently referred to as a delusional variant of hypochondriasis. Treatment is typically difficult to initiate and complete for this condition. This article describes three uncontrolled cases of MSH where cognitive-behavioral therapy was administered ...

Death Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach

Jul 01, 2008; Furer, Patricia; Walker, John R ... Over the years, there has been a considerable amount of psychological research focused on death anxiety. However, little attention has been given to clinical aspects of this problem. This paper focuses on a practical approach to assessment and treatment of death anxiety for the clinician. We ...

New Directions in Research on Health Anxiety and Hypochondriasis: Commentary on a Timely Special Series

Jul 01, 2008; Olatunji, Bunmi O ... Hypochondriasis is considered a somatoform disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text revision; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Conceptualizations of hypochondriasis as a form of severe health anxiety has resulted in a resurgence of interest ...