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Dissemination of prevention programs targeting young children is impeded by challenges with parent engagement. Matching program characteristics to parent preferences is associated with increased retention in clinical/intervention settings, but little is known about the types of prevention programs that interest parents. The objectives of this study were to better understand parents' preferences for services designed to prevent externalizing and anxiety disorders and to identify factors associated with preferences.
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August 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University.
The relationships between neuroticism, perceived emotion control, and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) severity were examined in 293 individuals diagnosed with GAD at a specialty anxiety disorders clinic. Hierarchical regression analyses performed within a structural equation modeling framework revealed that (1) neuroticism and perceived emotion control both predicted a latent variable of GAD in the expected direction, and (2) perceived emotion control moderated the relationship between neuroticism and GAD severity, such that lower levels of perceived emotion control were associated with a stronger relationship between neuroticism and GAD severity. The other dimensions of perceived control (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerspect Psychol Sci
September 2014
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders and Department of Psychology, Boston University.
In this article, we provide a fresh perspective on the developmental origins of neuroticism--a dimension of temperament marked by elevated stress reactivity resulting in the frequent experience of negative emotions. This negative affectivity is accompanied by a pervasive perception that the world is a dangerous and threatening place, along with beliefs about one's inability to manage or cope with challenging events. Historically, neuroticism has been viewed as a stable, genetically based trait.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychopathol Behav Assess
March 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University.
Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is no longer considered an anxiety disorder in , previous research has indicated high rates of comorbid anxiety and mood disorders in individuals with PTSD. The goal of the present study was to build upon previous examinations of diagnostic comorbidity by using Bayesian methods of estimating current and lifetime comorbidity rates to determine more precise estimates of the proportion of individuals in a clinical sample with PTSD that also meet criteria for various emotional disorders. Two hundred and fifty three individuals with a current or lifetime diagnosis of PTSD underwent a comprehensive assessment of current and lifetime emotional disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Psychol
June 2016
Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Florida International University.
Objectives: Identify factors associated with maternal perceptions of health-related quality of life (QoL) among youth with food allergies (FA), and identify maternal factors that may moderate relationships between FA-related challenges and child QoL.
Methods: In all, 533 mothers of children with FA completed measures assessing characteristics of their child's FA, maternal perceptions of child QoL, maternal psychological distress, and maternal overprotection.
Results: FA severity, maternal psychological distress, and overprotection were significantly associated with maternal reports of poorer child functioning and/or poorer QoL among youth with FA.
Clin Psychol Rev
August 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University, United States.
Dropout from mental health treatment poses a substantial problem, but rates vary substantially across studies and diagnoses. Focused reviews are needed to provide more detailed estimates for specific areas of research. Randomized clinical trials involving individual psychotherapy for unipolar depression are ubiquitous and important, but empirical data on average dropout rates from these studies is lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCompr Psychiatry
July 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, USA.
Background: Previous research suggests that patients with panic disorder exhibit higher levels of aggression than patients with other anxiety disorders. This aggression is associated with more severe symptomatology and interpersonal problems. However, few studies have examined whether higher levels of aggression are associated with a worse treatment response in this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
June 2017
d Department of Psychology, Center for Children and Families , Florida International University.
A sizable gap exists between the availability of evidence-based psychological treatments and the number of community therapists capable of delivering such treatments. Limited time, resources, and access to experts prompt the need for easily disseminable, lower cost options for therapist training and continued support beyond initial training. A pilot randomized trial tested scalable extended support models for therapists following initial training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Anxiety Disord
May 2015
Florida International University, Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Center for Children and Families, 11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, United States. Electronic address:
Anxiety disorders constitute the most common mental health disturbance experienced by youth. Sleep-related problems (SRPs) are highly prevalent among anxious youth and encompass a variety of problems including nighttime fears, insomnia, and refusal to sleep alone. Given that chronic sleep disturbance is associated with a range of behavioral and physical problems in youth and predicts future psychopathology, it is important to elucidate the nature of SRPs in anxious youth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepress Anxiety
July 2015
Department of Psychology, Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Background: In DSM-5, the agoraphobia core symptom criterion has been revised to require fear about multiple situations from across at least two distinct domains in which escape might be difficult or panic-like symptoms might develop. The present study examined patterns and correlates of the recent change in a sample of anxious youth with symptom presentations consistent with the DSM-IV agoraphobia definition and/or specific phobia (SP) to consider how the recent diagnostic change impacts the prevalence and composition of agoraphobia in children and adolescents.
Method: Analyses (N = 151) evaluated impairment and correlates of agoraphobic youth who no longer meet the DSM-5 agoraphobia criteria relative to agoraphobic youth who do meet the new DSM-5 criteria.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
September 2015
Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA.
Background: Identifying anxiety disorders in preschool-age children represents an important clinical challenge. Observation is essential to clinical assessment and can help differentiate normative variation from clinically significant anxiety. Yet, most anxiety assessment methods for young children rely on parent-reports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pers Disord
February 2016
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe, difficult-to-treat psychiatric condition that represents a large proportion of treatment-seeking individuals. BPD is characterized by high rates of co-occurrence with depressive and anxiety disorders, and recently articulated conceptualizations of this comorbidity suggest that these disorders may result from common temperamental vulnerabilities and functional maintenance factors. The Unified Protocol for the Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) was developed to address these shared features relevant across frequently co-occurring disorders.
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July 2015
Department of Psychology,Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University,Boston,MA,USA.
Background: Twin studies of internalizing disorders suggest that their high co-morbidity is partially explained by shared genetic risk. Few studies have investigated pleiotropic effects of well-validated candidate genes across phenotypes.
Method: Subjects were 928 Caucasian patients who presented to an out-patient clinic specializing in the assessment and treatment of anxiety and mood disorders.
J Exp Psychopathol
February 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Although the emotional disorders (EDs) have achieved favorable reliability in the (DSM), accumulating evidence continues to underscore limitations in ED diagnostic validity. In particular, taxometric, comorbidity, and other descriptive psychopathology studies of transdiagnostic phenotypes studies suggest that the EDs may be best conceptualized as dimensional entities that are more similar than different. Despite optimism that the fifth edition of the DSM () would constitute a meaningful shift toward dimensional ED assessment and diagnosis, most changes contribute little movement in that direction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Community Psychol
March 2015
Department of Psychology, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, 648 Beacon St., Boston, MA, 02215, USA,
Selective prevention programs hold the promise of alleviating child anxiety symptoms, decreasing the risk for emotional problems across the lifespan. Such programs have particular public health import for young children of poor, underserved communities. Identifying factors related to parent engagement, and methods to improve engagement, are paramount in the effort to develop anxiety-focused, community prevention programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Anxiety Disord
January 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, United States.
The reliability and validity of the dimensional features of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) were examined in a diverse sample of 508 outpatients with anxiety and mood disorders who underwent two independent administrations of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV: Lifetime version (ADIS-IV-L; Di Nardo, Brown, & Barlow, 1994). Inter-rater reliability was higher in the full sample than in patients with current GAD. Additionally, the presence of a mood disorder weakened inter-rater reliability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehav Res Ther
January 2015
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, 648 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Bulimia nervosa (BN) treatment studies consistently observe that substantial reductions in purging frequency after four weeks of treatment predict outcome. Although baseline levels of other variables have been compared to change in purging, measures of early change in other domains have not been examined. This study aimed to compare percentage change in purging, depression, and cognitive eating disorder (ED) symptoms for associations with BN remission post-treatment and at six months follow-up.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehav Res Ther
November 2014
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, 648 Beacon Street - 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215-2013, USA. Electronic address:
The series of articles in this issue of Behavior Research and Therapy presages a new field of translational research that could be called "the neuroscience of psychological treatments". After a brief retrospective on the origins and promise of this focus of study several cautions are adumbrated. As in any new field of scientific endeavor, close collaboration among stakeholders with interest in this field and the integration of a healthy scientific skepticism will best ensure the continued development of ever more powerful psychological treatments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepress Anxiety
November 2014
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Over the past several decades, the diagnosis of mental disorders has been characterized by classifying psychopathology into as many discrete diagnoses as can be reliability identified (e.g., APA, 2013).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Assess
December 2014
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University.
Limitations in anxiety and mood disorder diagnostic reliability and validity due to the categorical approach to classification used by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have been long recognized. Although these limitations have led researchers to forward alternative classification schemes, few have been empirically evaluated. In a sample of 1,218 outpatients with anxiety and mood disorders, the present study examined the validity of Brown and Barlow's (2009) proposal to classify the anxiety and mood disorders using an integrated dimensional-categorical approach based on transdiagnostic emotional disorder vulnerabilities and phenotypes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Anxiety Disord
December 2014
Center for Children and Families, Florida International University, United States.
Parental accommodation--i.e., changes in parents' behavior in attempts to prevent or reduce child distress--has been most studied in relation to OCD.
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December 2014
Florida International University, Department of Psychology, 11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, United States. Electronic address:
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) commonly co-occur in childhood. Inattention symptoms can be hallmarks of both conditions, however assessment tools of inattention may not effectively distinguish between the two conditions. The present study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses to examine the high-end specificity of the Attention Problems Scale of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) for detecting comorbid ADHD among youth with GAD (N=46).
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