Anxiety Disorders in Migrant and Nonmigrant Children: Risk Factors and Treatment SuccessAbstract. In this study we examined a child and adolescent psychiatric health-care population of Bremen, focusing on children ...
Anxiety DisordersAbstract. The most common mental disorders in childhood and adolescence are anxiety disorders. Temperament in early childhood, parental psychopathology, and genetic disposition play a central role ...
Parental Participation in the Context of Anxiety Treatment for Children: A Systematic ReviewAbstract. Anxiety disorders are widespread among children. Separation anxiety, social phobia, and generalized anxiety ...
Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: An Update of German-Language Research on Anxiety and Depression in a Globalized WorldAbstract: Anxiety disorders and depression are highly prevalent in childhood and adolescence and,...
Evaluation of a German-language instrument for assessing positive and negative automatic thoughtsAbstract.Background: According to Beck negative automatic thoughts are an important cause of depression. Objective: To determine the psychometric properties ...
Sudden Gains and Losses in the treatment of patients with anxiety, depressive and comorbid disordersAbstract.Theoretical background: Psychotherapy research has shown that the identification and prediction of individual continuous and discontinuous paths ...
Classical conditioning as an explanatory model for anxiety disorders: update on a modern classicAbstract.Background: Modern diathesis-stress models of psychological disorders, in particular those of anxiety disorders, consider individual differences in ...
Zusammenfassung.Theoretischer Hintergrund: Die Persönlichkeitseigenschaft Ekelsensitivität beschreibt die Neigung einer Person, Ekelerlebnisse als negativ und unkontrollierbar zu bewerten. Fragestellung: Entwicklung einer deutschsprachigen Skala zur ...
Utilization and Barriers of Exposure in Private Practice: The Perspective of Behavioral PsychotherapistsAbstract.Background: Exposure-based interventions are one of the most effective techniques for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Previous research, ...
Intensified Exposure to Promote Inhibitory Learning in Anxiety Disorders. Therapeutic Implementation in a Clinical TrialAbstract. The efficacy of exposure therapy in anxiety disorders is firmly established. Yet, a substantial proportion of patients does ...
Disorder-Specific and Transdiagnostic Changes in Inflammatory Activity in Mental DisordersAbstract:Background: Empirical findings increasingly point to elevated inflammatory activity in the context of mental disorders. However, the ...
Summary: The present study examined the relationships between specific anxiety, mood disorders, levels of hopelessness, and suicide ideation. The sample consisted of 606 outpatients recruited from several psychiatric settings. It was found that dysthymia ...
Background: Information is scarce concerning the perceived needs and the amount of health-care utilization of persons with suicidal ideation (SI) compared to those without SI. Aims: To describe the needs and health care use of persons with and without SI ...
Abstract. Although panic disorder (PD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are characterized by heightened sensitivity to threat, no study to date has examined the effect of comorbid PD and PTSD on defensive responding. The present study probed ...
The factorial structure of the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS; Spence, 1997) was examined in a community sample of 1,397 Italian children from 8 to 10 years old. Sex and age differences as regards anxiety symptoms were also analyzed. The convergent ...
Abstract. Despite recent claims that perfectionism is a transdiagnostic process, few studies have directly tested this hypothesis. We investigated the relationship between perfectionism measured by the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R) ...
Abstract. As a core component of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT), behavioral exposure is an effective treatment for anxiety disorders. Still, recent treatment studies demonstrate relatively high rates of treatment dropout, nonresponse,...
Abstract.Background: Individual differences in the experience of disgust are known to influence the development and maintenance of several psychopathologies. Aims: This study examined the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version ...
Abstract:Introduction: The Lehrer–Woolfolk Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (LWASQ) is a self-report questionnaire based on the tripartite model of Lang (1971) for measuring treatment progress. However, so far little is known about its psychometric ...