TL;DR: Evidence points to an important distinction between hippocampally- dependent and non-hippocampally-dependent forms of memory that are differentially affected by extreme stress, and the contrasting implications for therapy are discussed.

TL;DR: Initial examination of reliability and validity indicates excellent internal consistency and stability and encouraging evidence of validity, however, high correlations indicating overlap between some of the scales, particularly importance of thoughts, control of thought, and responsibility will need to be addressed in subsequent empirical and theoretical investigations.

TL;DR: Results of confirmatory factor analyses indicated a superior fit for a five-correlated-factor model, reflecting areas of social phobia, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and fears of physical injury broadly consistent with DSM-IV diagnostic categories.

TL;DR: The conclusion that can be drawn is that both E and CBT can be effective treatments for PTSD in refugees.

TL;DR: Prevalence figures for key eating disorder behaviors over the previous two weeks were as follows: 4% self-induced vomiting; 1% laxative misuse; 0.4% diuretic misuse; and 8% regular binge eating.

TL;DR: Depression was a significant unique predictor of adherence over and above the other variables and both interventions yielded improvement in adherence from baseline, and the Life-Steps intervention showed faster improvements in adherence for persons with extant adherence problems.

TL;DR: Results suggest that CBT administered by Health Visitors offers a clinically effective treatment for insomnia, and total sleep increased significantly during follow-up and 84% of patients initially using hypnotics remained drug-free.

TL;DR: A cognitive behavioural analysis of the processes involved in weight regain is presented, and a new cognitive behavioural treatment derived from it is described, designed to minimise the problem of weight regain.

TL;DR: It is suggested that when OCs are repeatedly exposed to threat-related stimuli (such as repeated checking), their level of confidence in remembering these stimuli paradoxically decreases.

TL;DR: A model in which negative parental rearing behaviour and a negative attributional style featured as the primary sources of depression, while coping styles and self-efficacy played a mediating role in the formation of depressive symptoms, provided a reasonable fit for the data.

TL;DR: Mirror gazing in BDD consists of a series of complex safety behaviours that does not follow a simple model of anxiety reduction that occurs in the compulsive checking of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

TL;DR: Findings showed that patients with avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, narcissistic, and paranoid PDs preferentially endorsed PBQ beliefs theoretically linked to their specific disorders.

TL;DR: Exposure in virtual reality may offer a new and promising approach for the treatment of fear of flying, and several outcome measures indicated greater effects in the VR treated group than in the relaxation group.

TL;DR: The role of information in the acquisition of fear and maintenance of avoidant behaviour is discussed with reference to modern conditioning theories of fear acquisition.

TL;DR: Looking at whether socially anxious children perceive their current parental rearing as rejecting, overprotective, and lacking emotional warmth, and as emphasizing the importance of other's opinion, and de-emphasizing social initiatives and family sociability, suggests that these variables do not form a specific pathway to social fears.

TL;DR: The findings highlight that the relationship between body dissatisfaction, dietary restraint, negative affect and bulimic behavior are more complex in males than in females.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the anxiety sensitivity construct in a large sample of normal Dutch adolescents aged 13-16 years (n=819) and found that anxiety sensitivity is a hierarchically organized construct with one higher-order factor (i.e., anxiety sensitivity) and three or four lower-order factors.

TL;DR: The present study evaluated anxiety sensitivity, along with depression and pain severity, as predictors of pain-related fear and anxiety in a heterogeneous chronic pain population and indicated the global anxiety sensitivity factor was a better predictor of fear of and anxiety about pain relative to the other relevant variables.

TL;DR: Investigation of nighttime fears in normal school children aged 4 to 12 yr revealed that these fears are common among 4- to 6-year-olds, become even more frequent in 7- to 9-Year-olds and then remain relatively stable in 10- to 12- year-olds.

TL;DR: Data addressed the descriptive characteristics, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, interrelation of subscales, and convergent and divergent validity of the Penn state worry questionnaire (PSWQ), worry scale (WS), Spielberger state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI), and two versions of the fear questionnaire (FQ).

TL;DR: Test of the hypothesis that childhood instrumental and vicarious learning experiences influence frequency of panic attacks in young adulthood both directly, and indirectly through their effects on anxiety sensitivity revealed that learning history for arousal-reactive somatic symptoms directly influenced both AS levels and panic frequency.

TL;DR: Taken together, the studies reported here show that this OVIS is predictive of treatment outcome, and the predictive value depends on which symptoms are used to assess outcome.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the TAF-scale has good internal consistency, and mean scores in a mixed sample of anxiety disordered patients were higher than those in a normal sample, however, temporal consistency was somewhat disappointing.

TL;DR: Brief cognitive therapy for social phobia appears promising and it is potentially cost-effective, and future randomised and controlled evaluations of this brief treatment are warranted.

TL;DR: Findings are consistent with the notion that peritraumatic panic may be related to subsequent posttraumatic stress, and suggest that modification of maladaptive beliefs about physical sensations should be addressed in posttraumatic therapy.

TL;DR: It is suggested that DIRT may be a viable option for treatment-resistant cases of compulsive washing, and four of the five cases meeting Jacobson and Truax's (1991) criteria for 'recovery' on the MOCI and the PI by this assessment stage.

TL;DR: Results of this investigation indicated that, among Native peoples, the ASI and its subscales had high levels of internal consistency, and a factor structure consisting of three lower-order factors that all loaded on a single higher-order (global Anxiety Sensitivity) factor.

TL;DR: The results suggested that the Japanese version of the Aggression Questionnaire met psychometric standards and appears to be a promising measure of aggression, however, theJapanese version may be improved if two reversed scored items are removed from the scale.