Published in Developmental psychology
Using 6 longitudinal data sets, the authors estimate links between three key elements of school readiness--school-entry academic, attention, and socioemotional skills--and later school reading and math achievement. In an effort to isolate the effects of these school-entry skills, the authors ensured that most of their regression models control for ...
Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
Abstract Exposure therapy is an effective approach for treating anxiety disorders, although a substantial number of individuals fail to benefit or experience a return of fear after treatment. Research suggests that anxious individuals show deficits in the mechanisms believed to underlie exposure therapy, such as inhibitory learning. Targeting these...
Published in Behaviour research and therapy
NCT01447966 http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01447966?term=ocd+and+st+petersburg&rank=1.
Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
Abstract The main aims of this study were to describe change in psychological outcomes for adolescents with anorexia nervosa across two treatments, and to explore predictors of change, including baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as weight gain over time. Participants were 121 adolescents with anorexia nervosa from a two-sit...
Published in Journal of youth and adolescence
Moral disengagement processes are cognitive self-justification processes of transgressive actions that have been hypothesized to be learned and socialized within social contexts. The current study aimed at investigating socialization of moral disengagement by friends in two developmentally different age groups, namely late childhood (age: 9-10 year...
Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
•A longitudinal design was employed to investigate cognitive processes of insomnia.•Cognitive processes distinguished between persistent insomnia and normal sleep.•More worry at baseline predicted persistent insomnia but not remission.•A lowering of selective attention and safety behaviours predicted insomnia remission.•Theoretical and clinical imp...
Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
•We examine the effect a benzodiazepine, midazolam, on fear extinction in rats.•Midazolam was given across the whole extinction session or just the second half.•Midazolam impairs extinction of fear in rats if given over the whole session.•Midazolam does not impair fear extinction if initial extinction occurred drug-free.•Benzodiazepines may be safe...
Published in Acta dermato-venereologica
Onychophagia is defined as chronic nail biting behaviour, which usually starts during childhood. Onychotillomania results from recurrent picking and manicuring of the fingernails and/or toenails, leading to visual shortening and/or estraction of nails. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of onychophagia and onychotillomania in young ...
Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
Published in Behaviour Research and Therapy
