[Negative Indicators in the Psychotherapeutic Process: Frequency and Relationship with Attachment Characteristics and Treatment Outcome among Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder].

Within the SOPHO-Net-Project, mainly focusing on a randomized-controlled trial comparing short term cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder, a subsample consisting of 88 patients from 3 of the 5 study sites was investigated to examine the relationship between outcome, initial attachment characteristics and negative indicators during the process. These negative indicators were assessed with the Vanderbilt Negative Indicators Scale which was applied to an early (3), a middle (9) as well as a late therapy (22) session. The study shows that negative indicators as a whole were relatively rare with a higher frequency within the psychodynamic therapies for which a relationship between negative indicators and outcome could be found.

Why are demographic Allee effects so rarely seen in social animals?

Allee effects in group-living species are common, but little is known about the way in which Allee effects at the group-level scale up to influence population dynamics. Most notably, it remains unclear whether component Allee effects within groups (where some component of fitness in small groups decreases with decreasing group size) will translate into a population-level demographic Allee effect (where per capita fitness in small populations decreases with decreasing overall population size). The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is an obligate cooperative breeder that lives in packs and has a multitude of group-level component Allee effects.

Changes of attachment characteristics during psychotherapy of patients with social anxiety disorder: Results from the SOPHO-Net trial.

Objectives: Within a randomized controlled trial contrasting the outcome of manualized cognitive-behavioral (CBT) and short term psychodynamic therapy (PDT) compared to a waiting list condition (the SOPHO-Net trial), we set out to test whether self-reported attachment characteristics change during the treatments and if these changes differ between treatments.

Research Design And Methods: 495 patients from the SOPHO-Net trial (54.5% female, mean age 35.

Partner-related attachment as a moderator of outcome in patients with social anxiety disorder-a comparison between short-term cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapy.

This study investigated whether partner-related attachment characteristics differentially predict premature treatment termination as well as posttreatment and 1-year follow-up outcome in patients with social anxiety disorder treated with a manualized cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or short-term psychodynamic therapy (PDT) in the SOPHO-NET (Social Phobia Psychotherapy Network) trial. Participants were 412 patients with social anxiety disorder (57% female) with a mean age of 35.4 years (SD = 12.

Social anxiety as a potential mediator of the association between attachment and depression.

Objective: The study represents a conceptual replication of the study by Eng et al. (2001) in a sample of adult patients diagnosed with social anxiety disorder as primary diagnosis.

Methods: Two different attachment questionnaires (Bielefeld Questionnaire of Client Expectations (BQCE) and Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR-RD)) were applied to examine whether the effect of attachment on depression (measured by the BDI) is mediated by social anxiety (measured by the LSAS) in a cross-sectional study.