This section is dedicated to covering all aspects of clinical psychology and psychotherapy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, cognitive behavioral therapy, deep brain stimulation, psychological testing, assessment and treatment of mental illness, and health psychology to name but a few. We welcome various types of treatment approaches on wide areas of practical, theoretical, or methodological interest to the field of clinical psychology. We also welcome epidemiology studies.
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In an effort to improve the screening and diagnosis of individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), research has focused on the identification of a unique neurodevelopmental profile characteristic ...
BMC Psychology 2017 5:22
Published on: 23 June 2017
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Parenting interventions that focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of parenting are effective for preventing and reducing externalising problems in children. There has been a recent shift towards onli...
BMC Psychology 2017 5:21
Published on: 19 June 2017
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) represents a unique clinical challenge for patients and health care providers due to unclear etiology and lack of specific treatment. Characteristic patterns of behavior and cogn...
BMC Psychology 2017 5:6
Published on: 6 March 2017
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) men and women represent one of the highest-risk populations for depressive symptomatology and disorders, with young LGB adults being at greatest risk. To date, there have been ...
BMC Psychology 2017 5:5
Published on: 1 March 2017
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Adherence to treatment homework is associated with positive outcomes in behavioral psychotherapy but compliance to assignments is still often moderate. Whether adherence can be predicted by different types of ...
BMC Psychology 2017 5:3
Published on: 26 January 2017
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Chronic illness is the leading cause of death in the UK and worldwide. Psychological therapies to support self-management have been shown to play an important role in helping those with chronic illness cope; m...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:56
Published on: 15 November 2016
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Adult emotion regulation is not only occurring within the person but includes strategies that happen in social interactions and that are framed as co-regulating. The current study investigates the role of the ...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:51
Published on: 28 October 2016
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Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the best methodology for studying the efficacy of psychotherapy. Optimally an RCT design makes it possible to conclude that if one treatment has a better outc...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:44
Published on: 24 August 2016
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Over 12,000 individuals suffer a spinal cord injury (SCI) annually in the United States, necessitating long-term, complex adjustments and responsibilities for patients and their caregivers. Despite growing evi...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:40
Published on: 26 July 2016
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Struggling to deliver performance in competitions is one of the main reasons why athletes seek the advice of sport psychologists. Psychologists apply a variety of intervention techniques, many of which are not...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:39
Published on: 26 July 2016
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Huntington’s disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease with autosomal dominant inheritance, characterized by motor disturbances, cognitive decline and behavioral and psychological symptoms. Since the...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:38
Published on: 26 July 2016
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This study examined relationships between attachment style, eating disorders (EDs), personality variables and family functioning.
BMC Psychology 2016 4:36
Published on: 12 July 2016
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Web-based interventions provide a possibility to enhance well-being in large groups of people. Only a few studies have studied the effectiveness of the interventions and there is no information on the sustaina...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:21
Published on: 17 May 2016
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The great majority of mental disorders begin during adolescence or early adulthood, although they are often detected and treated later in life. To compare mental health status of college students and their non...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:20
Published on: 21 April 2016
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Self-efficacy may be an important factor in individuals’ recovery from posttraumatic stress reactions after a natural disaster. However, few longitudinal studies have investigated whether self-efficacy predict...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:15
Published on: 6 April 2016
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Individuals who are not engaged in treatment are commonly overlooked in the design of intervention trials targeting suicidal populations as a result of recruitment methodology that requires individuals to be r...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:13
Published on: 24 March 2016
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There is growing interest in measuring the eudaimonic perspective of mental well-being (social and psychological well-being) alongside existing measures of the hedonic perspective of mental well-being (subject...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:12
Published on: 17 March 2016
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Decentering, a central change strategy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, is a process of stepping outside of one’s own mental events leading to an objective and non-judging stance towards the self. The s...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:11
Published on: 8 March 2016
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The concept of attachment is relevant for the onset and development of chronic pain. Insecure attachment styles negatively affect therapeutic outcome. Insecurely attached patients seem to be less able to susta...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:10
Published on: 16 February 2016
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In recent years, it has been increasingly recognized that the absence of mental disorder is not the same as the presence of positive mental health (PMH). With the PMH-scale we propose a short, unidimensional s...
BMC Psychology 2016 4:8
Published on: 10 February 2016
