Negative Mood Regulation Expectancies (NMRE) as a Moderator of the Association Between Stress and Treatment Outcomes in Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Treatment.

Objective: Negative mood regulation expectancies (NMRE) describe the expectancies of an individual regarding his or her ability to regulate or reduce negative mood states by certain cognitive or behavioral strategies. NMRE are closely associated with the actual emotion regulation and potentially buffer the negative psychological and physical health consequences of stress. In the context of chronic pain, stress plays a central role, as long-term stress can have additional negative consequences regarding pain and its progression.

Being Trapped and Seeing No Way Out - Effects of Entrapment on Treatment Outcome in an Interdisciplinary Pain Treatment.

Background: Entrapment describes a feeling of being stuck in an inescapable aversive situation. This feeling often arises in the context of uncontrollable and/or chronic stress and is associated with various psychopathologies.

Objective: Owing to the nature of their disease, also chronic pain, patients might experience their situation as unremitting and inescapable.

[The Coupling of Pain, Anxiety, and Stress].

The Coupling of Pain, Anxiety, and Stress There is considerable neurobiological, clinical and epidemiological evidence that the systemic phenomena of anxiety and pain closely interact. Both perceptions trigger stress activation processes and are in turn modulated by long-term stress. This overview illustrates the coupling of pain, anxiety and stress with some clinical examples.

Alexithymia moderates effects of psychotherapeutic treatment expectations on depression outcome in interdisciplinary chronic pain treatment.

Objective: Previous research has shown that patient's treatment expectations predict outcome in the multimodal therapy for chronic pain. Alexithymia, defined as the difficulty to identify, describe and express one's own feelings, may moderate treatment expectations and thereby effect treatment outcome. Accordingly, the aim of the current study is to examine the moderating role of alexithymia on the association of psychotherapeutic treatment expectation on depression outcome.