Myra Cooper

..Implications for basic and treatment-related research are then discussed. Finally, the clinical implications of the new model, including the use of schema-focused techniques, are briefly discussed...

..Treatment studies incorporating these new developments also urgently need to be undertaken...

..The current study investigated the relationship between negative self-beliefs, underlying assumptions about weight, shape and eating, eating attitudes and depressive symptoms in a student sample of young men...

..The aim of the current study was to provide a preliminary investigation of the presence of metacognition in anorexia nervosa (AN)...

..To provide a preliminary, systematic exploration of some features associated with the experience of 'feeling fat'...

..Positive social self beliefs predicted low levels of depressive symptoms, when confounds were controlled. Positive core beliefs would benefit from further study in subclinical and clinical ED groups of younger women...

..This study investigated whether attachment history predicts unique variance in body mass index in young women...

..Implications for differential approach to treatment in the two disorders are discussed in the context of the study limitations...

..However, a number of individual items (on both measures) in the high EAT group, as well as in the low EAT group, were related specifically to eating disorder symptoms and not also to depressive symptoms...

..Core beliefs specific to eating disorder and depressive symptoms were investigated in four groups of adolescent girls well matched on these symptoms...

..The relationship between illness representations and stage of change was explored using hierarchical multiple regression analyses...

..Beliefs about emotions may be a useful direct or indirect target for treatment of difficulties regulating emotions, and this could be achieved through the use of various therapeutic modalities...

..The findings suggest that negative core self beliefs relevant to those with an eating disorder are a multidimensional construct and that self loathing as a core belief merits further research and clinical attention...

..Attentional biases in panic disorder cannot be explained by the use of medication in this group and may therefore play a critical role in the underlying pathogenesis of the disorder...

..A number of implications for future research, theory and therapy with those with AN are discussed...

..To explore metacognition in women with anorexia nervosa (AN), dieting and non-dieting women...

..Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is increasingly being used to help children overcome emotional difficulties but its suitability is still a matter of debate...

..The study also found that BDD images were linked to early stressful memories, and that images were more likely than verbal thoughts to be linked to these memories. Implications for theory and clinical practice are discussed...

..Schemas relating to both shame and dependency may be important in determining the effect that parental bonding has on eating disorder symptoms in a sample of female adolescent schoolgirls...

..The findings are discussed in relation to existing research, and implications for cognitive theories of bulimia nervosa and clinical practice are briefly discussed...

..The possibility that adolescents show a developmental tendency for less separation between the constructs assessed, when compared with adults, is of particular interest, and requires further exploration...