A5053508466- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Social Representations and Identity
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Family Support in Illness
- Sex and Gender in Healthcare
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
VA Boston Healthcare System
2023
Temple University
2018-2022
Massachusetts General Hospital
2014-2021
Temple College
2019-2021
Adult Anxiety Clinic of Temple
2018-2019
Boston University
2017
Harvard University
2016
Objective: Network analysis allows us to identify the most interconnected (i.e., central) symptoms, and multiple authors have suggested that these symptoms might be important treatment targets.This is because change in central (relative others) should greater impact on all other symptoms.It has been argued networks derived from cross-sectional data may help such symptoms.We tested this hypothesis social anxiety disorder.Method: We first estimated a state-of-the-art regularized partial...
Complicated grief (CG) has been recently included in the DSM-5, under term "persistent complex bereavement disorder," as a condition requiring further study. To our knowledge, no psychometric data on any structured clinical interview for CG (SCI-CG) is available to date. In this manuscript, we introduce SCI-CG, 31-item "SCID-like" clinician-administered instrument assess presence of symptoms.Participants were 281 treatment-seeking adults with (77.9% [n = 219] women, mean age 52.4, standard...
Anxiety sensitivity (AS; fear of anxiety-related symptoms) is an established transdiagnostic risk factor for psychiatric disorders and related to a variety chronic medical conditions. However, AS has not been as In this study, we review studies on conditions (and symptoms/behaviors conditions) propose four pathways through which may increase conditions: (a) increasing condition-specific symptoms, (b) perpetuating avoidance healthy activities, (c) promoting engagement in unhealthy behaviors,...
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) individuals are at heightened risk for psychological distress, including social anxiety (SA). The current study aimed to examine whether gender-affirming medical interventions (GAMIs) associated with lower SA among TGNC individuals. Two hundred ninety-one transfeminine 424 transmasculine participants completed the Trans Health Survey, which assessed interest in or utilization of GAMIs (genital surgery, chest hormone use, speech therapy, tracheal...
Grief-related avoidance is a significant component of complicated grief, yet has rarely been formally measured in validated fashion. Further, more work needed to understand the impact grief-related on symptom severity and functional impairment among individuals with grief (CG). The Grief-Related Avoidance Questionnaire (GRAQ; Shear, Monk et al. 2007) was created assess present analysis aimed further develop this measure construct by confirming GRAQ's psychometric properties examining...
Background and Objectives: Poor sleep is prevalent among individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) may affect treatment outcome. We examined whether: (1) SAD differed from healthy controls (HCs) in quality, (2) baseline quality moderated the effects of (Cognitive–behavioral group therapy [CBGT] vs. mindfulness-based stress reduction [MBSR] waitlist [WL]) on anxiety, (3) changed over treatment, (4) changes predicted 12-months post-treatment.Design: Participants were 108 adults a...
The Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire (CD-Quest) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses common cognitive distortions. Although the CD-Quest has excellent psychometric properties, its length may limit use. We attempted to develop short-forms of using RiskSLIM – machine learning method build short-form scales can be scored by hand. Each was fit maximize concordance with total score for specified number items based on an objective function, in this case R2, selecting optimal subset and...
Persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) report disproportionally high rates of pain. Pain among PLWHA has been associated poor medication adherence anxiety depressive symptoms. This relationship may be primarily driven by elevated negative affect, one factor that important to understanding affect is emotion dysregulation. Therefore, the current study sought examine dysregulation (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) terms multi-dimensional pain experience (pain severity, interference,...
Objective: Network analysis allows us to identify the most interconnected (i.e., central) symptoms, and multiple authors have suggested that these symptoms might be important treatment targets. This is because change in central (relative others) should greater impact on all other symptoms. It has been argued networks derived from cross-sectional data may help such We tested this hypothesis social anxiety disorder. Method: first estimated a state-of-the-art regularized partial correlation...
Introduction Patient adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) after a diagnosis of hormone-sensitive breast cancer is poor. Previous interventions have failed produce changes in adherence, address patient preferences or include theoretically informed and evidence-based components. Therefore, we iteratively developed patient-centred, evidence-based, small-group, videoconference intervention improve symptom management as well reduce distress for patients taking AET (Symptom-Targeted...
Knowledge about what psychological characteristics underlie complicated grief (CG) is limited. The current study examined the five-factor personality traits in 81 bereaved adults with (n = 51) and without 30) CG. A trained doctoral-level clinician evaluated participants using a structured, diagnostic psychiatric interview, they completed self-report measures of personality. multiple regression model indicated that higher levels neuroticism were associated greater CG symptom severity,...
The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility a psychosis information intervention for professionals in contact with young people Ireland. A quasi‐experimental pre‐ and post‐intervention design used. One thousand thirty‐two received an designed improve mental health literacy (MHL) confidence providing help psychosis. Seven hundred fifty‐five participants completed Psychosis Information Confidence Questionnaire post‐intervention. significantly improved participants’: (1) knowledge...
Objectives Black and Hispanic/Latinx individuals experience a greater burden of mental health symptoms as compared to White in the general population. Examination ethnoracial disparities mechanisms explaining these among veterans is still its nascence. The current study examined perceived everyday discrimination income parallel mediators association between race/ethnicity PTSD, depression, anxiety sample White, Black, stratified by gender. Methods A random 3,060 living across U.S....
Abstract BACKGROUND Caregivers of patients with malignant gliomas experience substantial anxiety symptoms while caring for someone progressive neurological decline. Yet, interventions to reduce psychological distress and improve quality life (QoL) in this caregiver population are lacking. METHODS We conducted an open pilot study evaluating feasibility acceptability a cognitive behavioral therapy-based intervention caregivers clinically significant (Generalized Anxiety Disorder [GAD-7] score...