Family and Couple Integrated Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Adults with OCD: A Meta-Analysis.

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Feeling safe: Judgements of safety and anxiety as a function of worry and intolerance of uncertainty.

Safety perspectives of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) propose that safety perception is critical to regulating anxiety. Reduced safety processing may contribute to persistent worry and anxiety that extend to recognizably safe contexts. We explored whether individuals higher in worry and intolerance of uncertainty (IU), central characteristics of GAD, display poorer recognition and use of safety cues, and whether safety perception is related to anxiety.

A randomized experimental analysis of the attention training technique: Effects on worry and relevant processes in individuals with probable generalized anxiety disorder.

Context: The Attention Training Technique (ATT, Wells, 1990) is an intervention guiding individuals to focus, shift, and divide their attention in response to sounds presented in an audiorecording. The ATT has long been recommended for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); however, there is insufficient research on its effects on excessive worry and related processes.

Objectives: This experiment examined whether the ATT is more efficacious than a control intervention at reducing worry and modifying worry-related processes (e.

Field Evaluation of Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensors for Measuring Wildfire Smoke.

Until recently, air quality impacts from wildfires were predominantly determined based on data from permanent stationary regulatory air pollution monitors. However, low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors are now widely used by the public as a source of air quality information during wildfires, although their performance during smoke impacted conditions has not been thoroughly evaluated. We collocated three types of low-cost fine PM (PM) sensors with reference instruments near multiple fires in the western and eastern United States (maximum hourly PM = 295 µg/m).

Family and couple integrated cognitive-behavioural therapy for adults with OCD: A meta-analysis.

Background: Integrating family into the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is standard in pediatric populations; however, in adult populations, patients are typically treated independent of their family. Yet, there is compelling evidence to suggest that family members exacerbate OCD symptoms, and thus there is a strong rationale for integrating family members into the treatment of adult OCD. The present meta-analysis examined whether family treatment is effective for OCD in adult populations as well as moderators of treatment outcome.

Can Self-Report Measures of Readiness for Change and Treatment Ambivalence Predict Outcomes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Clients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) that demonstrate observer-coded treatment ambivalence benefit from the addition of motivational interviewing (MI) to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT; Button, Westra, Constantino, & Antony, 2016). While observer-coded assessment of ambivalence and readiness for change is resource-intensive, the present study investigates the use of more efficient self-report measures to predict treatment outcomes. Participants ( = 85) with GAD received CBT or MI-CBT and completed self-report measures of readiness for change (Change Questionnaire, Miller & Johnson, 2008) and ambivalence (Treatment Ambivalence Questionnaire, Purdon, Rowa, Gifford, McCabe, & Antony, 2012).

Genomic structure and diversity of Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia reveal recent parasite migration patterns.

Estimates of Plasmodium falciparum migration may inform strategies for malaria elimination. Here we elucidate fine-scale parasite population structure and infer recent migration across Southeast Asia using identity-by-descent (IBD) approaches based on genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms called in 1722 samples from 54 districts. IBD estimates are consistent with isolation-by-distance.

Clinical Perfectionism, Dissatisfaction With Standards, and Raising the Bar: Validation of the Response to Goal Achievement Scale.

Objectives: To examine the factor structure and psychometrics of a new self-report scale measuring cognitive and behavioral reactions to goal achievement (Reactions to Goal Achievement Scale; RGAS), and to examine its relationship to other measures of clinical perfectionism in two samples. Self-reported reasons for setting higher standards following successful goal achievement were also examined.

Methods: The RGAS, Clinical Perfectionism Questionnaire (CPQ) and Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS) were administered to a sample on Amazon Mechanical Turk ( = 264) and to a sample of overweight individuals ( = 65).