David Tolin

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..At posttreatment and at 1- and 3-month follow-up assessments, the patient's OCD symptoms were markedly improved. This report suggests that very young children may respond well to brief CBT...

..Authors examined the frequency and comorbidity of anxiety disorders among aging Puerto Ricans seen in primary care...

..These results support the use of MMPI-2 validity scales for PTSD evaluations in veteran populations, even under varying base rates of symptom exaggeration...

..The present results suggest that the TSC may be a useful measure of TTM for child and adolescent samples, although additional clarification of convergent validity is needed...

..Results are discussed in light of evolving cognitive-behavioral theories that highlight appraisals of thought control and the use and effectiveness of varying thought control strategies...

..Trichotillomania severity decreased significantly and 77% of children were classified as treatment responders at post-treatment and 64% at 6-month follow-up...

..The aim of this study was to examine the onset and course of compulsive hoarding, and the relationships between stressful or traumatic life events and course of illness...

..We discuss possible strategies for clarifying the degree to which fear and disgust are involved in OCD symptoms...

..The aim of this retrospective investigation was to determine optimal YBOCS reduction criteria for classifying patients as responders...

..It is concluded that the HRS-I is a promising measure for determining the presence and severity of compulsive hoarding...

..We discuss several potential reasons for the superiority of therapist-administered treatment, and propose a stepped-care integration of self-administered and therapist-administered interventions for OCD...

..Thus, sex differences in risk of exposure to particular types of PTE can only partially account for the differential PTSD risk in male and female participants...

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..These results argue against previous claims of treatment equivalence and suggest that CBT should be considered a first-line psychosocial treatment of choice, at least for patients with anxiety and depressive disorders...

..These results suggest that compulsive hoarding adversely impacts not only the hoarding individual, but also those living with them...

..These results challenge current conceptualizations of hoarding as a subtype of OCD, and suggest an association with neurocognitive impairment...

..More research is needed to assess the absolute magnitude of psychotic-like features in OCD patients with impulse/mistake and religious obsessions and to examine whether these features interfere with standard cognitive-behavioral therapy...

..However, during a recognition test, OCD patients showed greater impaired forgetting for OCD-relevant words than did nonanxious and anxious controls. Valence of words did not emerge as a contributing factor to impaired forgetting...

..1-3.0% had a child or elder removed from the home. These results suggest that compulsive hoarding represents a profound public health burden in terms of occupational impairment, poor physical health, and social service involvement...

..22). Results are discussed in terms of emerging conceptualizations of HD as a distinct illness...

..This effect was not seen in NACs or ACs. These findings suggest that deficits in cognitive inhibitory processes may underlie the intrusive, repetitive nature of clinical obsessions...

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..We discuss the implications for increasing tolerance via cognitive-behavioral therapy...

..The articles in this issue are then outlined and summarized. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 67:1-5, 2011...

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..We suggest that this process may be consistent with the sympathetic magic and disease-avoidance models of disgust, and that disgust may be a fruitful area for exploration in the study of OCD...

..However, few studies of the efficacy of CBT have selected patients who did not respond to medications...

..The article concludes with a summary of treatment efficacy and 10 promising clinical practices...

..This study determined the psychometric properties of a variety of anxiety measures administered to older adults receiving home care services...

..The authors describe the cognitive-behavioral therapy model and treatment of hoarding, including a case presentation of a cognitive behavioral group treatment of compulsive hoarding...

..These results suggest that the effects of CBT may extend beyond OCD symptom reduction to QOL...

..All participants who responded to Step 1 maintained acute gains during the brief follow-up period. Limitations include a small sample size and high attrition rate...

..The findings also support the notion that hair pulling may be maintained primarily through positive reinforcement, which is consistent with its classification as an impulse control disorder...

..Information related to the manifestation of psychiatric distress following disasters is of particular interest to the scientific, clinical and disability insurance communities given the ongoing threat of further terrorist attacks...

..These data highlight the need for improved recognition and treatment of anxiety disorders in older Puerto Rican adults...

..These results suggest that correctly rejected, high-conflict trials that require response inhibition may provide a better model than error trials of compulsive behaviors in OCD...

..e., past week) ratings. These results highlight the importance of promoting and improving resources for the clinical care of TTM patients, and provide some directions for clinicians to enhance assessment of interference caused by TTM...

..ASI scores of participants not receiving a diagnostic assessment, however, were unchanged from baseline...

..However, ERP following RI was associated with a high drop-out rate (50%), a figure that exceeds that typically seen in OCD treatment studies. Techniques to reduce drop-out as well as directions for future research are discussed...

..Methodological limitations may account for the lack of group differences on the experimental hair-pulling task...

..However, the group format may not maximize the efficacy of BT for TTM. Thus, it is recommended that future BT research test either individual therapy or a combination of group and individual formats for TTM...

..Future research needs to determine the extent to which adaptations are necessary to optimize the success of CBT for anxiety in a home care setting...

..Hence, PTSD severity is predicted by functionally assessing the hippocampus using the virtual Morris water task, suggesting that this task may be used to identify those at risk for developing PTSD following a trauma...

..This article provides a quantitative review of DCS-augmented fear extinction and exposure therapy literature...

..Results are discussed in terms of the relationship between religion and OCD symptoms in the context of the cognitive-behavioral conceptualization of OCD...

..This study examined whether d-cycloserine, a partial agonist at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamatergic receptor, enhances the efficacy of behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...

..The results suggest that, compared to OC non-checkers and to NACs, OC checkers have an inflated perception of responsibility for harm; and that this perception leads to a need to rectify potentially harmful situations...

..Results across both samples in the present study were highly similar. The strengths and limitations of the ASI-R are discussed, and the implications of our findings for the nature and measurement of AS are considered...

..The final article describes pharmacotherapy for OCD. All articles feature case vignettes and provide practitioners with clinical recommendations...

..Correlations between the ASP factors and related variables were consistent with AS theory. The strengths and limitations of the ASP are offered as well as the implications of our findings for the nature and assessment of AS...

..The results are consistent with a disgust-based, disease-avoidance approach in understanding contamination-related OCD themes...

..The strengths and limitations of the SAS are offered as well as the implications of our findings for the nature and assessment of somatic complaints in anxiety disorders...

..These deficits were related to OCD symptom severity and general functioning, factors that may account for the inconsistent findings observed in different laboratories...

..These findings are discussed in the context of future research on the assessment of quality of life in the anxiety disorders...

..The PIOS has utility both as a research and clinical tool...

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..No evidence was found for an implicit memory bias in spider phobics. These findings are discussed in relation to the role of information processing biases in spider phobia...

..Implications and suggestions for continued research examining fearful and disgusting stimuli in specific phobia are outlined...

..These findings are discussed in the context of the refinement of the DS to promote a more psychometrically sound assessment of disgust sensitivity...

..However, because of the novelty of this approach extensive protocol development and pilot research via this R34 application is needed before the program can be truly operational. ..

..We will use cutting-edge data analytic procedures to examine patterns of interrelated neural activation as well as the time course of activation across the decision making process. ..

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..We will use cutting-edge data analytic procedures to examine patterns of interrelated neural activation as well as the time course of activation across the decision making process. ..

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