NEPSI divulga pessoas inscritas para bolsas para Iniciação Cientifica (2024-2025)
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Abstract We examined the feasibility, acceptability, and clinical potential of a smartphone-based Approach-Avoidance Modification Training (AAMT) that required users to deliberately display anger and positive emotions (AAMT-AP) to move (dys-)functional stress-related beliefs away from and towards themselves, respectively. The per protocol sample consisted of N = 30 participants randomized to an AAMT-AP condition, a swipe control condition, or an inactive control condition. Feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and study design were assessed directly and changes in clinical outcomes (perceived stress (primary outcome), dysfunctional beliefs, symptoms of depression, and emotion regulation skills) one week after intervention completion. The results indicated that AAMT-AP [...]
Abstract The factors driving excessive reassurance seeking in obsessive–compulsive disorder are incompletely understood. We investigated whether low memory confidence, which drives compulsive checking, may also lead to excessive reassurance seeking during a novel in vivo contamination-based task. Undergraduates (N = 91) completed a memory test and received sham positive or negative performance feedback. Participants then viewed a complicated cleaning video and completed a corresponding cleaning task whilst their reassurance seeking was covertly coded. Afterwards, participants rated their anxiety, confidence, and experimenter responsibility for task outcomes. The novel laboratory task induced high levels of reassurance seeking from participants (median = 5 reassurance requests). There was [...]
Abstract The main purpose of this study is to adapt the Affective Style Questionnaire (ASQ) into Turkish. It also aims to examine the mediating role of affective styles between attachment styles and depression. The study was conducted on a total of three different samples (N1 = 261; N2 = 190; N3 = 263). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the construct validity of the scale and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) was used to test the convergent validity. As a result of the CFA conducted in all three samples, the model was found to have adequate fit values. In the convergent validity, ASQ [...]
Abstract Two studies explored whether Hated Self and Inadequate Self forms of self-criticism demonstrate different relationships to self-critical rumination (SCR), metacognitive beliefs, decentering and psychopathology. In study 1, 137 community participants experiencing SCR completed an online questionnaire battery. Self-hate was associated with higher SCR, stronger positive and negative metabeliefs about SCR, higher psychopathology and nonreactivity to internal experiences. Effects of Inadequate Self on psychopathology were fully mediated by SCR whereas Hated Self exerted direct effects on psychopathology alongside indirect effects via SCR. Study 2 explored whether higher self-hate attenuated the ability to detach from SCR triggers. Twenty-three participants received a [...]
Abstract We previously found that rumination maintains obsessive–compulsive (OC) symptoms. Our goal was to explore the moderating roles of three characteristics in the immediate and intermediate effects of rumination on OC symptoms: trait rumination, severity of comorbid depressive symptoms, and the tendency to misinterpret the occurrence of unwanted intrusive thoughts as meaningful. We reanalyzed our previous study’s data and explored in a sample of 145 individuals diagnosed with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) whether any of the three characteristics moderated the observed immediate and intermediate effects of rumination on OC symptoms. Only the tendency to misinterpret unwanted intrusive thoughts moderated the immediate [...]
Youth criminal justice systems are under growing pressure to reduce re-offending behaviour and support young people’s health and developmental needs. This systematic review and meta-analysis sought to synthesise evidence for two prominent community-based interventions for delinquent and antisocial behaviour, multisystemic therapy (MST) and functional family therapy (FFT). [...]
Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan is a beautifully written book that is divided into an introduction, 4 chapters and an epilogue. This book focuses on the role of the family, especially women, in the history of psychiatry and madness in Japan from the end of the Edo period until the modern age. Reading this book reminded me of the concept of identified patient when I was learning about family therapy, and it was a painful (and helpful) reminder of the social, familial, and cultural layers that impact the care of my patients. [...]
Sociopath: A Memoir is a memoir written by Patric Gagne, PhD, a writer, researcher, and advocate who has dedicated much of her life to understanding personality disorders. Her book details her journey from childhood to adulthood as she struggles to understand her diagnosis of sociopathy. She writes her memoir with the mission of educating others about sociopathy through sharing her research, increasing the visibility of the existence of sociopathy, and advocating for individuals with similar diagnoses. [...]
Offspring of mothers with depression are at increased risk for executive function (EF) deficits and later depressive symptoms, but limited studies examined EF as an intermediary pathway. This study examined the role of EF in mediating the association between maternal and child depressive symptoms. [...]
In this Letter to the Editor, we examine a case of catatonia in a 37-month-old child with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) antibody-positive acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM). To our knowledge, this is one of the youngest cases of non-drug-related catatonia reported in the literature.1,2 We will discuss how this patient’s symptoms of catatonia responded to pharmacologic interventions and the need to screen young children for catatonic symptoms given the high rate of morbidity and mortality associated with the condition. [...]
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView. [...]
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView. [...]
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView. [...]
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView. [...]
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 65, Issue 10, Page 1258-1269, October 2024. [...]