Emotion Regulation Predicts Recovery Capital Beyond Mindfulness and Demographic Variation in Recovery Dharma.

Recovery Dharma is a Buddhist-inspired mutual-aid recovery program for those with substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. The program combines meditation, emotion regulation techniques, literature, and Buddhist practices during meetings to help people achieve emotional balance and improve their well-being. Despite the growing popularity of Recovery Dharma, how the practices in this program predict recovery resources remain largely unknown.

The Clinical Relevance of Impulsivity in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Examining Within-Treatment Changes and Relationship to Psychiatric Symptoms and Cravings in a Large Inpatient Sample.

Objective: Impulsivity is a multidimensional construct consistently associated with problematic substance use, but less is known about its relevance to clinical outcomes. The current study examined whether impulsivity changed over the course of addiction treatment and whether the changes were associated with changes in other clinical outcomes.

Method: Participants were patients in a large inpatient addiction medicine program ( = 817; 71.

Longitudinal associations between prenatal testosterone and postpartum outcomes in a sample of first-time expectant lesbian couples.

Although increasing numbers of gay and lesbian individuals ultimately become parents, the vast majority of research on the transition to parenthood focuses exclusively on heterosexual samples. Even less is known about the physiological implications of this major life transition among those who identify as sexual minorities. The present study begins to redress these gaps in the literature by assessing prospective links between prenatal testosterone, a steroid hormone that is negatively associated with nurturance and caregiving, and postpartum outcomes in a sample of 25 first-time expectant lesbian couples (N = 50 individuals).

Prospective and dyadic associations between expectant parents' prenatal hormone changes and postpartum parenting outcomes.

During the transition to parenthood, both men and women experience hormone changes that are thought to promote parental care. Yet very few studies have explicitly tested the hypothesis that prenatal hormone changes are associated with postpartum parenting behavior. In a longitudinal study of 27 first-time expectant couples, we assessed whether prenatal hormone changes were moderated by self- and partner-reported parenting outcomes at 3 months postpartum.