How does a single session group intervention improve sexual function in ovarian cancer survivors? A secondary analysis of effects of self-efficacy, knowledge and emotional distress.

Although sexual dysfunction after ovarian cancer (OC) treatment is a common side effect, intervention for this issue remains largely unaddressed in the literature. To address this gap, we recently developed and tested a theory-driven psychosexual intervention that successfully improved sexual function in OC survivors. This study is a secondary analysis to determine whether the intervention effects were consistent with our theoretical model.

Self-Image and Sexuality Issues among Young Women with Breast Cancer: Practical Recommendations.

Background: Younger breast cancer survivors face a unique set of treatment-related issues that have enormous impact on quality of life and psychological well-being. Although there is often a profound and distressing impact of treatment on self-image and sexual function, women rarely receive any attention for these issues. Unfortunately, most clinicians receive no training on how to inquire about these problems and most clinicians feel unprepared to discuss them.

The relationship between alliance and outcome: Analysis of a two-person perspective on alliance and session outcome.

Objective: Better alliance is known to predict better psychotherapy outcomes, but the interdependent and interactive effects of both therapist- and patient-reported alliance levels have yet to be systematically investigated.

Method: Using actor-partner interdependence model analysis the authors estimated actor, partner, and 2 types of interactive effects of alliance on session outcome in a sample of 241 patient-therapist dyads across 30 sessions of cognitive-behavioral and alliance-focused therapy.

Results: Findings suggest that the most robust predictors of session outcome are within-treatment changes in patient reports of the alliance, which predict both patient and therapist report on outcome.

Physical self-similarity enhances the gaze-cueing effect.

Important social information can be gathered from the direction of another person's gaze, such as their intentions and aspects of the environment that are relevant to those intentions. Previous work has examined the effect of gaze on attention through the gaze-cueing effect: an enhancement of performance in detecting targets that appear where another person is looking. The present study investigated whether the physical self-similarity of a face could increase its impact on attention.