A5087865806- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Cancer survivorship and care
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Family Support in Illness
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
University of Colorado Boulder
2016-2025
University of Colorado Denver
2017-2025
University of Colorado Cancer Center
2017-2025
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
2020-2024
University of Colorado System
2011-2024
University of California, Los Angeles
2005-2018
University of Oregon
2012
UCLA Health
2009
Randomized comparisons of acceptance-based treatments with traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders are lacking. To address this gap, we compared acceptance and commitment (ACT) to CBT heterogeneous disorders.One hundred twenty-eight individuals (52% female, mean age = 38, 33% minority) 1 or more DSM-IV began treatment following randomization ACT; both included exposure. Assessments at pre-treatment, post-treatment, 6- 12-month follow-up measured anxiety-specific...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance commitment (ACT) researchers scholars carry assumptions about the characteristics of these therapies, extent to which they differ from one another. This article examines proposed differences between CBT ACT for anxiety disorders, including aspects treatment components, processes, outcomes. The general conclusion is that treatments are more similar than distinct. Potential mediators issues related identification considered in depth, directions...
Mindfulness meditation—the practice of attending to present moment experience and allowing emotions thoughts pass without judgment—has shown be beneficial in clinical populations across diverse outcomes. However, the basic neural mechanisms by which mindfulness operates relates everyday outcomes novices remain unexplored. Focused attention is a common induction where practitioners focus on specific physical sensations, typically breath. The study explores this among novice practitioners....
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported treatment for social phobia. However, not all individuals respond to and many who show improvement do maintain their gains over the long-term. Thus, alternative treatments are needed.The current study (N = 87) was a 3-arm randomized clinical trial comparing CBT, acceptance commitment (ACT), wait-list control group (WL) in participants with diagnosis of phobia based on criteria Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (4th...
Understanding for whom, and under what conditions, treatments exert their greatest effects is essential developing personalized medicine. Research investigating moderators of outcome among evidence-based anxiety disorders lacking. The current study examined several theory-driven atheoretical putative in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) acceptance commitment (ACT).Eighty-seven patients with a Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric...
People learn about their self from social information, and recent work suggests that healthy adults show a positive bias for learning self-related information. In contrast, anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by negative view of the self, yet what causes maintains this self-view not well understood. Here authors use novel experimental paradigm computational model to test hypothesis biased regarding self-evaluation self-feelings represents core feature distinguishes with SAD controls....