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| A G HarveySummaryAffiliation: University of Oxford Country: UK Publications
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Cognitive behaviour therapy for primary insomnia: can we rest yet?Allison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Sleep Med Rev 7:237-62. 2003..Directions for future research are outlined including (1) guidelines for improved RCT methodology and (2) suggestions for developing empirically grounded treatments...- The management of unwanted pre-sleep thoughts in insomnia: distraction with imagery versus general distractionAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 40:267-77. 2002..In addition, "imagery distraction" involved a very specific alternative cognitive task hence the operating process was given a feature positive search, conditions where mental control is likely to be achieved... - A qualitative investigation of the organization of traumatic memoriesA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 38:401-5. 1999..The present study aimed to evaluate the qualitative features of memory organization, dissociation and perception of threat in traumatic memories recalled by individuals with and without acute stress disorder (ASD)... - A cognitive model of insomniaA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 40:869-93. 2002..The literature providing preliminary support for the model is reviewed and the clinical implications and limitations discussed... - Acute stress disorder: a synthesis and critiqueAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Psychol Bull 128:886-902. 2002..The available evidence indicates that alternative means of conceptualizing acute trauma reactions and identifying acutely traumatized people who are at risk of developing PTSD need to be considered... - Sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder: a reviewAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 23:377-407. 2003..Areas for future research are specified. In particular, a priority is to improve the methodology of the research conducted... - Cognitive behaviour therapy for posttraumatic stress disorderAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 23:501-22. 2003..Finally, future directions are discussed. In particular, it is proposed that randomised controlled trials (RCT) of CBT for PTSD must be conducted with enhanced methodological rigour and public health relevance... - Coexistence of posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: towards a resolution of the paradoxAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:663-76. 2003..One resolution focuses on ambiguity in the criteria for diagnosing PTSD. The other involves accepting that TBI patients do experience similar symptoms to other PTSD patients, but that there are crucial differences in symptom content... - Catastrophic worry in primary insomniaAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 34:11-23. 2003..The limitations of the study, possibilities for future research, and clinical implications of these findings are discussed... - The efficacy of a Pennebaker-like writing intervention for poor sleepersAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England
Behav Sleep Med 1:115-24. 2003..The results of this pilot study highlight the potential of research exploring the utility of a Pennebaker-style writing intervention for improving sleep... - Pre-sleep cognitive activity: a comparison of sleep-onset insomniacs and good sleepersA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 39:275-86. 2000..Pre-sleep cognitive activity has been implicated in the maintenance of sleep-onset insomnia. The present study aimed to investigate the focus of attention, content and characteristics of cognition during the pre-sleep period... - Insomnia: symptom or diagnosis?A G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 21:1037-59. 2001..Finally, directions for future research to further illuminate the relationship between insomnia and comorbid disorders are discussed... - Reconstructing trauma memories: a prospective study of "amnesic" trauma survivorsA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, England
J Trauma Stress 14:277-82. 2001..These findings suggest that people reconstruct memories of trauma in the absence of complete encoding of the experience. Possible mechanisms for memory reconstruction are considered... - The relationship between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: a 2-year prospective evaluationA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England
J Consult Clin Psychol 67:985-8. 1999..These findings indicate the importance of considering multiple pathways to the development of PTSD... - Social anxiety and self-impression: cognitive preparation enhances the beneficial effects of video feedback following a stressful social taskA G Harve
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 38:1183-92. 2000..These results suggest that the therapeutic effects of video feedback can be enhanced by careful cognitive preparation which maximises the perceived discrepancy between self and video images... - Suppressing and attending to pain-related thoughts in chronic pain patientsA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 38:1117-24. 2000..Suppressors experienced reduced pain-related thoughts during period 2. There was no immediate enhancement or delayed increase... - Dissociative symptoms in acute stress disorderA G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
J Trauma Stress 12:673-80. 1999..These findings suggest the need for a more refined conceptual and operational understanding of dissociative symptoms in the acute trauma stage... - Two-year prospective evaluation of the relationship between acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder following mild traumatic brain injuryA G Harvey
School of Psychology, Unviersity of New South Wales, Sydney
Am J Psychiatry 157:626-8. 2000..To assess the ability of acute stress disorder to predict posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the relationship between acute stress disorder and PTSD over the 2 years following mild traumatic brain injury was determined... - Sleep-related functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder, patients with insomnia, and subjects without sleep problemsAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Am J Psychiatry 162:50-7. 2005..The authors investigated sleep-related functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder... - The influence of postnatal psychiatric disorder on child development. Is maternal preoccupation one of the key underlying processes?Alan Stein
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Psychopathology 42:11-21. 2009..This impairs the mother's parenting capacities and adversely affects mother-child interaction and child development... - A specific and rapid neural signature for parental instinctMorten L Kringelbach
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 3:e1664. 2008..This has potentially important clinical applications in relation to postnatal depression, and could provide opportunities for early identification of families at risk... - Monitoring for sleep-related threat: a pilot study of the Sleep Associated Monitoring Index (SAMI)Christina Neitzert Semler
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England
Psychosom Med 66:242-50. 2004..The implications for the presence of monitoring for sleep-related threat in chronic insomnia are discussed... - An investigation of interpretive bias in insomnia: an analog study comparing normal and poor sleepersMelissa J Ree
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sleep 29:1359-62. 2006.... - Identifying safety behaviors in insomniaAllison G Harvey
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
J Nerv Ment Dis 190:16-21. 2002..The clinical implications of these findings and areas for further research are discussed... - Pre-sleep imagery under the microscope: a comparison of patients with insomnia and good sleepersJ Nelson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Behav Res Ther 41:273-84. 2003..The results are discussed with reference to proposals made by Borkovec, Ray and Stöber (Cognitive Ther. Res., 22, (1998) 561) in the context of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)... - Effects of cognitive arousal and physiological arousal on sleep perceptionNicole K Y Tang
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Sleep 27:69-78. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that both presleep cognitive arousal and presleep physiological arousal contribute to distorted perception of sleep... - The differential functions of imagery and verbal thought in insomniaJulia Nelson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
J Abnorm Psychol 111:665-9. 2002..In the longer term, the Image group estimated that they fell asleep more quickly and, the following morning, reported less anxiety and more comfort about giving the speech compared with the Verbal group... - Interactions between mothers and infants: impact of maternal anxietyRosemary Nicol Harper
Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
Infant Behav Dev 30:161-7. 2007.... - The organisation and content of trauma memories in survivors of road traffic accidentsCharlie Jones
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:151-62. 2007..The results suggest both a strong concurrent and predictive relationship between narrative disorganisation and ASD/PTSD but that as people recover from ASD, their narratives do not necessarily become less disorganised... - Attempts to control unwanted thoughts in the night: development of the thought control questionnaire-insomnia revised (TCQI-R)Melissa J Ree
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
Behav Res Ther 43:985-98. 2005..The strategy of cognitive distraction appeared to be helpful, with the use of this strategy predicting better sleep quality... - An exploration of pre-sleep cognitive activity in insomnia: imagery and verbal thoughtJulia Nelson
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 42:271-88. 2003..CONCLUSION: Participants disengaged more from images compared with verbal thoughts, and the insomnia patients reported feeling less calm and relaxed at the end of the salient verbal thought compared with the good sleepers... - Correcting distorted perception of sleep in insomnia: a novel behavioural experiment?Nicole K Y Tang
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
Behav Res Ther 42:27-39. 2004..The theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed... - Traumatic brain injury, dissociation, and posttraumatic stress disorder in road traffic accident survivorsCharlie Jones
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
J Trauma Stress 18:181-91. 2005..Our findings indicate that the presence of TBI is likely to influence the distribution of certain symptoms, but need not be a significant barrier to diagnosing ASD and PTSD... - Daytime functioning in primary insomnia: does attentional focus contribute to real or perceived impairment?Christina Neitzert Semler
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, England
Behav Sleep Med 4:85-103. 2006..These findings suggest that self-focused attention may contribute to perceived impairment in daytime functioning in primary insomnia... - Misperception of sleep can adversely affect daytime functioning in insomniaChristina Neitzert Semler
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
Behav Res Ther 43:843-56. 2005..These results indicate that the impaired daytime functioning reported by insomnia patients is maintained, at least in part, by subjective perception of sleep... - Integration of psychological and biological approaches to trauma memory: implications for pharmacological prevention of PTSDJenny M McCleery
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Trauma Stress 17:485-96. 2004..Drugs that influence arousal may have effects after trauma which depend on the psychosocial context, helping to prevent the development of PTSD in some trauma victims, but impeding recovery in others who would do well without treatment... - Barriers to treatment seeking in primary insomnia in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional perspectiveKathleen Stinson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Sleep 29:1643-6. 2006.... - An investigation of monitoring for sleep-related threat in primary insomniaChristina Neitzert Semler
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, England, UK
Behav Res Ther 42:1403-20. 2004..Future research is required to verify the proposed causal status of monitoring, using prospective designs and experimental manipulations...