A5072310807- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Media Influence and Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2016-2025
University of Houston
2016-2025
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2020-2024
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
2023
Stony Brook University
2017-2022
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
2020
Center for Innovation
2020
University of New Mexico
2019
The University of Texas at Austin
2014-2019
Center for Anxiety and Depression
2018
Accumulating evidence suggests that anxiety sensitivity (fear of arousal-related sensations) plays an important role in many clinical conditions, particularly disorders. Research has increasingly focused on how the basic dimensions are related to various forms psychopathology. Such work been hampered because original measure--the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI)--was not designed be multidimensional. Subsequently developed multidimensional measures have unstable factor structures or measure...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) convened a meeting in September 2005 to review tobacco use and dependence smoking cessation among those with mental disorders, especially individuals anxiety depression, or schizophrenia. Smoking rates are exceptionally high these contribute the medical morbidity mortality individuals. Numerous biological, psychological, social factors may explain rates, including lack treatment health settings. Historically, "self-medication" "individual...
In this article we present the theoretical and empirical bases of distress tolerance research. Although offers a promising lens through which to better understand various psychological symptoms disorders, further development inquiry is needed promote our understanding construct. Overall, number questions regarding its conceptualization measurement, associations with related constructs psychopathology, role(s) in therapeutic change intervention remain unanswered. Directions for future...
Depressive symptoms are associated with poor smoking cessation outcomes, and there remains continued interest in behavioral interventions that simultaneously target depressive symptomatology. In this pilot study, we examined whether a activation treatment for (BATS) can enhance outcomes. A sample of 68 adult smokers mildly elevated (M = 43.8 years age; 48.5% were women; 72.7% African American) seeking randomized to receive either BATS paired standard (ST) strategies including nicotine...
This study examined the reliability and validity of youth version Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART–Y) for assessing adolescent risk behaviors among a sample 98 inner-city African American adolescents (M age = 14.8, SD 1.5). In addition to relation with sensation seeking, BART–Y responding evidenced significant composite across substance use, sexual behavior, delinquency, health domains. also explained unique variance in these above beyond demographic variables risk-related personality...
The authors examined whether motivations for drinking alcohol are associated with the anxietyrelated dispositional tendencies of anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and alexithymic coping. administered Anxiety Sensitivity Index, Experiential Avoidance Scale, 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Revised Drinking Motives Questionnaire, a demographics questionnaire to 182 university drinkers. In multiple regressions, factors significantly predicted risky motives coping, enhancement, conformity....