A5052597058- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Sleep and related disorders
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Early Childhood Education and Development
Massachusetts General Hospital
2022-2024
Harvard University
2024
ObjectiveEmotion recognition, reactivity, and regulation are important in the development maintenance of anxiety disorders. Whether how these processes differentiate between different trajectories remain unclear. The current study examined emotional as prospective predictors symptom psychiatrically hospitalized youth.MethodParticipants were 180 adolescents (Mage = 14.89; SD 1.35) from a psychiatric inpatient unit. At index hospitalization, participants completed behavioral task assessing...
Trauma-related nightmares (TRNs) are a hallmark symptom of PTSD and highly correlated with severity poor sleep quality. Given the salience arousal associated TRNs, they might be an effective target for imaginal exposures during Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. As first step in this line research, current study compared participants' emotional reactivity recollection TRNs to their index traumatic event.
Culture affects the concept of mood disorders and how anxiety depression are expressed. To adequately recognize in diverse populations provide culturally sensitive treatment, it is necessary to understand patients' illness beliefs, which comprise their understanding onset illness, its cause, severity, impact, appropriate treatment. Clinicians who a patient's beliefs able discuss medical management way patient can comprehend. This article discusses Chinese Americans with current treatment...
Although spirituality and mental health were considered two separate worlds in the past, it is becoming increasingly apparent that an important aspect of health. The concept continues to evolve now encompasses personal quests non-materialistic values, one's core belief systems, pursuit peace purpose life, connection self others, self-transcendence. These spiritual values are deeply influenced by culture. To be able provide culturally sensitive care people from diverse cultures, necessary...
IntroductionProlonged Exposure (PE) therapy produces therapeutic fear extinction via imaginal exposure to trauma memories. However, traumatic events that occurred in the distant past and associated memories may become distorted or habituated. Posttraumatic nightmares are more recent, potentially salient, better support learning. Physiological responses imagery of a nightmare related this were compared each other neutral imagery.