Recently added articles from Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy:
Introduction to the Special Issue on Interoceptive Exposure in the Treatment of Anxiety and Related Disorders: Novel Applications and Mechanisms of Action
Dec 01, 2008; ... Interoceptive exposure (IE) involves having an individual repeatedly induce and experience feared arousal-related sensations (e.g., shortness or breath, heart palpitations, dizziness) as a means of reducing the fear of those sensations. IE exercises such as hyperventilation, chair spinning, and ...
Physical Exercise as Interoceptive Exposure Within a Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety-Sensitive Women
Dec 01, 2008; ... A brief cognitive-behavioral treatment intervention that included an interoceptive exposure (IE) component was previously demonstrated effective in decreasing fear of anxiety-related sensations in high anxiety-sensitive (AS) women (see Watt, Stewart, Birch, & Bernier, 2006). The present ...
Interoceptive Exposure Exercises for Evoking Depersonalization and Derealization: A Pilot Study
Dec 01, 2008; ... This study examined the potential of 11 interoceptive exposure exercises to produce depersonalization and derealization among high anxiety-sensitive undergraduate students. Inspired by a February 2007 thread on the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies listserv, we identified nine ...
Interoceptive Exposure as a Prelude to Trauma-Related Exposure Therapy in a Case of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Substantial Comorbidity
Dec 01, 2008; ... This article illustrates the use of interoceptive exposure therapy (IE) combined with traumarelated exposure therapy (TRE) for a patient with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with comorbid major depressive disorder, panic attacks, and chronic pain. The patient completed four sessions ...
Interoceptive Exposure-Based Cessation Intervention for Smokers High in Anxiety Sensitivity: A Case Series
Dec 01, 2008; ... The current report presents the underlying rationale and components of an interoceptive exposure-based smoking cessation treatment for anxiety-sensitive smokers. The intervention was pilot-tested on three (female) daily smokers with moderate to high levels of nicotine dependence and high levels ...
Interoceptive Exposure in the Treatment of Health Anxiety and Hypochondriasis
Dec 01, 2008; ... The experience of health anxiety is seen in a range of different anxiety and somatoform disorders. Bodily sensations are often cues for anxiety or emotional distress in persons with problems with health anxiety and hypochondriasis. In treating these problems, there are advantages to including ...
Anxiety Sensitivity, Emotional Intolerance, and Expansion of the Application of Interoceptive Exposure: Commentary on the Special Issue
Dec 01, 2008; ... Starting with the success of interoceptive exposure in the treatment of panic disorder and encouraged by the importance of anxiety sensitivity and emotional intolerance for understanding a wide range of conditions, interoceptive exposure techniques have been applied in a variety of new and ...
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Current Status
Oct 01, 2008; ... In this review of the current status of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), we consider two of Ellis's strategies that have helped preserve REBT's presence in the professional zeitgeist. We argue that REBT should be viewed as a unitary approach to cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) and ...
Treatment Attitude and Therapy Outcome in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study investigated the degree to which two ways of defining attitude toward treatment (i.e., attitude toward talking with a therapist about problems, expectation for improvement) predicted therapy outcome. The sample consisted of 28 patients who participated in an open clinical trial ...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Executive Functioning in Depression
Oct 01, 2008; ... When considering psychological treatments for depression, a therapist needs to be aware of some of the wider cognitive and neuropsychological difficulties experienced by his or her patient in order to tailor therapy appropriately. The depressed person may display rigid and concrete thinking, ...
Sociotropy, Autonomy, and Self-Criticism Are Three Distinguishable Dimensions of Cognitive-Personality Vulnerability
Oct 01, 2008; ... Whereas both Blatt (1974) and Beck (1983) postulated the existence of two basic cognitivepersonality vulnerabilities to depression-sociotropic/anaclitic and autonomous/introjective- recent research and theorizing suggest that self-criticism is a third dimension of vulnerability. To examine the ...
The Mental Simulation of Motor Incapacity in Depression
Oct 01, 2008; ... In depression, negative beliefs are coupled with profound physical weakness. Specifically, the belief that one is incapable of altering events in order to prevent expected negative outcomes or bring about positive outcomes leads to bodily symptoms characterized by low energy, slow motor ...
An Examination of Anxiety Sensitivity as a Moderator of the Relation Between Sleep Anticipatory Anxiety and Sleep Onset Latency
Oct 01, 2008; ... Evidence suggests that advancing currently limited knowledge about self-reported sleep onset latency is important for better understanding insomnia. Relatively little research has been conducted to understand factors that affect sleep onset latency. The current study tested a hypothesized role ...
Repetitive Thought in Psychopathology: The Relation of Rumination and Worry to Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
Oct 01, 2008; ... The relation between repetitive thought and depression and anxiety symptoms was examined in an undergraduate sample. Individuals completed self-report measures of rumination, worry, depression, and anxiety as well as other related constructs including private self-consciousness, looming ...