Why is it so hard to identify (consistent) predictors of treatment outcome in psychotherapy? - clinical and research perspectives.

Background: Anxiety and depression are two of the most debilitating psychological disorders worldwide today. Fortunately, effective treatments exist. However, a large proportion of patients do not recover from treatment, and many still have symptoms after completing treatment.

Cognitive Impairment After COVID-19-A Review on Objective Test Data.

The aim was to conduct a review on the literature on objective cognitive impairment in patients after COVID-19. We performed a literature review and searched Ovid Medline in February 2021 based on a PECO scheme. Twelve articles met all inclusion criteria.

Dispositional resilience in treatment-seeking patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and its association with treatment outcome.

There is a lack of research on the relation between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and resilience. Dispositional resilience, as described and defined in literature on hardiness, consists of three facets, namely beliefs about having control in everyday living, having a sense of purpose or commitment, and a positive attitude toward challenges. This study explores associations between dispositional resilience (measured with the Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15-R)), symptom severity, and treatment outcome in a sample of 89 patients treated with concentrated exposure therapy (cET), and compares the findings with scores from two reference groups (students and soldiers).

The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Form (DOCS-SF).

Accurately and reliably measuring the presence and severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms is essential for both routine clinical work and research. The current study investigated psychometric properties of the dimensional obsessive-compulsive scale-short form (DOCS-SF). DOCS-SF was developed and validated in Norwegian.

Parental socioeconomic status and child intellectual functioning in a Norwegian sample.

Socioeconomic status (SES) in childhood has been linked to cognitive function and future academic and occupational success in studies from several countries. However, previous Nordic studies have shown inconsistent results regarding the strength of this link. We therefore investigated the association between SES and cognitive functioning in a sample of 255 Norwegian children, including 151 typically developing children and 104 children with a psychiatric diagnosis.

How uncommon is tickertaping? Prevalence and characteristics of seeing the words you hear.

Tickertape experience is the subjective phenomenon of routinely visualizing the orthographic appearance of words that one hears, speaks, or thinks, like mental subtitles in the mind's eye. It has been observed in grapheme-color synesthetes, whose letter visualizations are colored, but has been very little studied. We report a survey, among 425 Norwegian adults from varied sub-samples, of the prevalence, character, and associated skills of tickertaping.