Behaviour Research and Therapy

Papers
(The median citation count of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals196
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students164
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Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder93
Components of cognitive-behavioral interventions to prevent the onset of depression among the high-risk population: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis82
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect73
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study67
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction64
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants60
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?58
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials57
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial57
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety45
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events45
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti44
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Overgeneral autobiographical memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the differential roles of executive function subcomponents and the impact on symptom severity41
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style41
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Prior conceptual structure in shaping fear generalization: The impact of co-occurrence frequency and retrieval context37
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty36
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity36
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic35
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder34
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility34
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity34
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping32
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories32
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm31
Dismantling the mechanism of VR self-compassion training: A two-session controlled trial with active controls29
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review29
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development29
Effectiveness of an online positive affect treatment targeting reward sensitivity in reducing depressive symptoms among college students: A randomized controlled trial28
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study27
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention27
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]26
When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress26
A multilevel machine learning algorithm to predict session-by-session outcome for patients receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy25
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli25
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans24
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats24
Effects of novelty and reward-based fear extinction on memory generalization24
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD23
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis23
Changes in Emotion Regulation are Associated with Treatment Outcomes in Web-Based Eating Disorder Interventions: Analyses of Two Randomized Controlled Trials22
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems22
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis22
Can cognitive behavioral additions improve the efficacy of self-help mindfulness intervention for depression and anxiety ?: A randomized controlled trial21
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Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach21
Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students20
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences20
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?20
Coming to life – Development and initial validation of a novel video-based stimuli set for research in OCD19
Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial19
A mechanistic approach to developing effective, acceptable, and accessible psychological therapies for young people and emerging adults19
Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial19
Contextual factors influence effectiveness of cognitive reappraisal19
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy19
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups18
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China18
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction18
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Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant16
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls16
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Developmental shifts in the anxiety and hazardous alcohol use relationship: Moderating factors from adolescence to young adulthood16
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“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support16
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Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools15
The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain15
Corrigendum to “Multi-session online interpretation bias training for anxiety in a community sample” [Behaviour Research and Therapy, 142 (2021), 1–15 / 103864]15
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)15
Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis15
Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy14
The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial14
Supporting children on therapy waitlists: A randomized controlled trial of a web-based parent-focused single session intervention for child anxiety14
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others14
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial14
Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi14
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Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens13
Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models13
Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases13
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Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial13
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs13
Predicting Chinese adolescents’ non-suicidal self-injury urges at diathetic, environmental, and life-event levels——machine learning and network analysis13
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A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain13
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue12
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia12
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination12
From innovation to implementation: Artificial intelligence in cognitive behaviour therapy training and supervision12
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Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder12
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature12
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence12
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD12
Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors12
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training11
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Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment11
Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder11
Breaking barriers: Addressing hostile attribution bias and aggression among future correctional officers11
Toward a mechanistic understanding of LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: Testing treatment mediators in a randomized controlled trial with young gay and bisexual men11
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally11
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning11
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety11
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial11
The longitudinal structure of sleep disturbance: Time-varying and time-invariant components and associations with psychological distress11
Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent11
Remembering and forgetting: A dynamic social retrieval theory of posttraumatic stress10
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders10
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Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)10
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments10
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial10
The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery: A multimodal investigation10
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample10
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood10
Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm10
The unique impacts of attentional control and experiential avoidance on PTSD symptomatology: Moderation of nonlinear effects10
Transdiagnostic psychological processes underlying anxiety, depression, alcohol use disorder, and problematic social media use: A Bayesian RDoC-informed study10
No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance10
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study10
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP10
Changing maladaptive trauma-related cognitions and emotional activation during trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: Thematic content and relationships with posttraumatic stress symptoms9
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial9
Past stories, future worries: sleep does not alter the emotional response to future-relevant or irrelevant negative memories9
Reappraising negative situations after a night of sleep deprivation9
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]9
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression9
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Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice9
Implicit emotion regulation affects the emotional information updating function of high trait ruminators: An ERP study9
Corrigendum to “Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive–compulsive participants” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 195 (2025) 104903]9
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment9
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias9
Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients9
Joy beyond fear: Positive emotions after exposure in patients with anxiety disorders and their link to threat expectancy and treatment outcome9
Suicidal ideation trajectories among adults following psychiatric hospitalization8
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Effects of patient response pattern distributions on comparisons of psychosocial treatments for major depressive disorder8
Transdiagnostic and transtherapeutic strategies for optimising autobiographical memory8
Differential effectiveness of dialectical behavioural therapy and schema therapy in patients with borderline personality disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial8
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?8
The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia8
One research question, two meta-analyses, three conclusions: Commentary on “A systematic review with meta-analysis of Cognitive Bias Modification interventions for anger and aggression”8
Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD8
Itsy bitsy spider: Fear and avoidance (generalization) in a free-exploratory virtual reality paradigm8
The renewal reducing effect of unpaired unconditional stimuli presented during extinction is not specific to the unconditional stimulus used during acquisition8
Patterns of self-harm functions among clinic-referred youth: Associations with treatment outcomes8
Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome8
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Jumping back onto the giants’ shoulders: Why emotional memory should be considered in a network perspective of psychopathology8
Anxiety sensitivity and substance use disorders: Associations across multiple drug classes and tests of a transdiagnostic mechanism8
I've got a friend in me: The effect of self-compassion on affect via emotion regulation in adolescents using ecological momentary assessment8
Effectiveness of intensive exposure therapy for persistent post-concussion symptoms: an aggregated single-case design approach7
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial7
A randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation plus savoring for positive affect dysregulation in university students7
Does the network structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms at treatment admission identify patients at risk for non-response?7
Fluctuations in emotion regulation as a mechanism linking stress and internalizing psychopathology among adolescents: An intensive longitudinal study7
Fear extinction using a conditioned stimulus that was temporally proximal to the unconditioned stimulus reduces physiological and subjective return of fear7
Exposure and response prevention versus stress management training for adults and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized clinical trial7
Effects of timing and type of trauma-focused treatment on psychosocial functioning: secondary outcomes from a randomized controlled trial in patients with co-occurring substance use disorder and postt7
Efficacy of a transdiagnostic internet-based program for adolescents with emotional disorders: A randomized controlled trial7
Emotion regulation and insomnia as candidate processes of change in a digital mental health intervention7
Global precedence effect in fear generalization and the role of trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty7
Corrigendum to “Brief training in mindfulness meditation reduces symptoms in patients with a chronic or recurrent lifetime history of depression: A randomized controlled study” [Behaviour Research and7
Biased and inflexible interpretations of social situations predict depressive symptoms and relational outcomes in parent-adolescent dyads7
Unpaired unconditional stimuli during fear extinction at full and reduced intensity reduce re-acquisition7
Optimizing indicated cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent child anxiety and depression: A cluster-randomized factorial trial7
Temporal associations between adolescents’ psychological inflexibility and posttraumatic stress symptoms after a super typhoon: Examining the mediation of cognitive emotion regulation7
Self-report measures of fear learning and extinction and their association with internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy outcome7
Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder7
Brief emotion regulation strategies to reduce alcohol craving: Mediating role of state difficulties in emotion regulation7
Expanding, improving, and understanding behaviour research and therapy through digital mental health7
The efficacy of self-guided internet and mobile-based interventions for preventing anxiety and depression – A systematic review and meta-analysis7
A mental imagery intervention targeting suicidal ideation in university students: An assessor-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial7
Contamination fear and attention bias variability early in the COVID-19 pandemic7
Shared and distinct profiles of attention to emotional faces in childhood trauma and depression: An eye-tracking study7
A randomized controlled trial of online mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral interventions for sexual interest/arousal disorder in women: eSense6
Effectiveness of body exposure for the treatment of body image disturbance: A meta-analysis6
Perseveration on suicidal thoughts and images in daily life: An examination of the cognitive model of suicide through a dynamic systems lens6
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The role of relief in persistent avoidance of learnt fear6
Long-term efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A 2–8-year follow-up of two randomized controlled trials6
Quantifying and addressing the impact of measurement error in network models6
Experiential processing increases positive affect and decreases dampening appraisals during autobiographical memory recall in an anhedonic sample6
Pre-deployment threat learning predicts increased risk for post-deployment insomnia: Evidence from the Marine Resiliency Study6
Active contextualization reduces traumatic memory intrusions via memory integration6
The role of concreteness in repetitive negative thinking: Temporal dynamics and the predictive value for depression throughout psychological treatment6
Active positive searching versus passive negative avoidance: A comparative investigation of large-scale offline attention bias modification training in nonclinical adolescents6
On the importance of identifying mechanisms and active ingredients of psychological treatments6
Receiving self-compassion in the virtual world: Testing the potential value of biofeedback6
Effects of safety behavior fading on social anxiety and emotional disclosure6
Attentional processing of concern-related stimuli in dissociative identity disorder: No evidence for inter-identity differences6
Augmenting in vivo exposure with reward-focused strategies: A randomized controlled trial providing preliminary evidence for improved outcomes in individuals with elevated anhedonia6
Imagery rescripting: New developments special issue editorial6
How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial6
Perseverative thinking is associated with features of spoken language6
Associations among threat prediction error, prediction change, and anxiety during an exposure therapy analogue in adults with healthy to clinical social anxiety6
Should I stay or should I go? Investigating reward-based decision-making in anhedonic individuals6
Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories that persist over time6
Brief imagery rescripting is equivalent to imaginal exposure in improving response to worry images among high worry individuals6
Impact of a brief HRV-biofeedback intervention on emotion regulation following a real-life stressful event: A randomized controlled study6
Effects of imagery rescripting and imaginal exposure on voluntary memory5
Mindfulness-induced self-transcendence promotes universal love with consequent effects on opioid misuse5
Diversity in emotion regulation strategy use: Resilience against posttraumatic stress disorder5
Does self-harm have the desired effect? Comparing non-suicidal self-injury to high-urge moments in an ambulatory assessment design5
Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses5
Differences in conditioning using unconditioned stimuli evoking fear, disgust or both emotions simultaneously5
Supporting extinction memory updating to promote extinction generalization in a category-based fear conditioning paradigm5
The effect of universal school-based mindfulness on anhedonia and emotional distress and its underlying mechanisms: A cluster randomised controlled trial via experience sampling in secondary schools5
Time is a great healer: Peak-end memory bias in anxiety – Induced by threat of shock5
A randomized controlled trial of self-help acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for perfectionism5
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Positive emotion up-regulation in the wake of a cognitively demanding task: An event-related potential study5
Association between the behavioral response during social exclusion and recalled childhood maltreatment5
Finding a positive me: Affective and neural insights into the challenges of positive autobiographical memory reliving in borderline personality disorder5
Tailored internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals experiencing psychological distress associated with climate change: A pilot randomized controlled trial5
Can you learn to starve yourself? Inducing food avoidance in the laboratory5
Using electrodermal activity to estimate fear learning differences in anxiety: A multiverse analysis5
The role of the body in altered facial emotion perception in autism and social anxiety5
Examining the efficacy of the computerized anxiety sensitivity treatment in a guided, group format: A randomized controlled trial5
Decision-making for concurrent reward and threat is differentially modulated by trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity5
Expectancy updating predicts anxiety symptom reduction from exposure therapy: Predictive analyses from a randomized clinical trial5
Predicting early dropout in online versus face-to-face guided self-help: A machine learning approach5
Examining concordance between emotion-dependent risk-taking in the laboratory and in the real-world5
Observing interoceptive threat: Gaze and pupillary responses reveal observational fear learning of aversive bodily symptoms in others5
No distorted prediction error processing in depression? Pupillary responses to expected vs. unexpected emotional information in clinically depressed and healthy individuals5
Mobile intervention to address cannabis use disorder among black adults: A proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial5
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy—Taking it Further (MBCT-TiF) compared to Ongoing Mindfulness Practice (OMP) in the promotion of well-being and mental health: A randomised controlled trial with gra5
Symptoms of a feather flock together? An exploratory secondary dynamic time warp analysis of 11 single case time series of suicidal ideation and related symptoms5
Testing theoretical processes that maintain paediatric social anxiety: A comparison between children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder, other mental disorders, and non-clinical controls5
Mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy vs. supportive psychotherapy in body dysmorphic disorder: An exploratory mediation analysis5
Social identities reduce self-focused attention in social anxiety4
Results from a randomized controlled trial testing theory-driven enhancements – Growth mindsets and message framing -- to a brief CBT text-message invention for co-occurring PTSD symptoms and alcohol 4
Clinical, demographic and theory-derived maintaining factors as moderators of treatment outcome in internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for children and adolescents with social anxiety dis4
Attention mechanisms of social anxiety in daily life: Unique effects of negative self-focused attention on post-event processing4
Mechanisms of change in cognitive functional therapy: A longitudinal mediation analysis of the RESTORE clinical trial for disabling chronic low back pain4
ACTing with Mindfulness for Pain (AMP): A pilot randomized controlled trial of an integrated acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness meditation program4
Identifying active ingredients in cognitive-behavioral therapies: What if we didn't?4
Negative attention bias and attentional control as mechanisms in the association between insomnia and depression in young people4
Heterogeneity in suicide risk: Evidence from personalized dynamic models4
Are autistic traits associated with a social-emotional memory bias?4
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