Behaviour Research and Therapy

Papers
(The median citation count of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study183
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals156
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect134
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials113
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals105
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?101
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety76
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial72
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students68
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance58
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder58
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti57
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events55
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety53
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction48
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants46
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories45
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The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder42
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style39
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy39
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic37
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder37
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity36
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity36
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility35
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support34
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures33
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping33
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty32
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD31
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli31
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]30
A multilevel machine learning algorithm to predict session-by-session outcome for patients receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy30
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats30
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers29
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans29
Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study29
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study29
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention28
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis27
When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress27
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development27
Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout27
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm27
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene27
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems26
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis26
The causes and consequences of shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder26
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review25
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy25
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction25
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Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial23
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups23
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?22
Visual attention during cognitive reappraisal in adolescent major depression: Evidence from two eye-tracking studies22
Repetitive negative thinking and depressive symptoms are differentially related to response inhibition: The influence of non-emotional, socio-emotional, and self-referential stimuli22
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach22
Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students21
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China21
Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts21
The effect of concreteness training on peri-traumatic processing and intrusive memories following an analogue trauma20
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences20
Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD19
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Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial19
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Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy19
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls18
The integrated constructionist approach to emotions: A theoretical model for explaining alterations to positive emotional experiences in the aftermath of trauma18
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others18
Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi17
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on explicit evaluation of spider stimuli17
Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant17
Feeling safe: Judgements of safety and anxiety as a function of worry and intolerance of uncertainty17
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The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain16
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Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis15
“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support15
The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial15
Real-world evidence from users of a behavioral digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia15
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)15
Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools15
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Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases14
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination14
A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain14
Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors14
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Mechanistic pathways of change in twice weekly versus once weekly sessions of psychotherapy for depression14
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Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models14
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs14
Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial14
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Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder14
Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens14
Corrigendum to “Multi-session online interpretation bias training for anxiety in a community sample” [Behaviour Research and Therapy, 142 (2021), 1–15 / 103864]14
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD14
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial14
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature13
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence13
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue13
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Predicting Chinese adolescents’ non-suicidal self-injury urges at diathetic, environmental, and life-event levels——machine learning and network analysis13
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally13
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety12
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial12
Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder12
Remembering and forgetting: A dynamic social retrieval theory of posttraumatic stress12
The effect of depression and anxiety symptom severity on clinical outcomes and app use in digital mental health treatments: Meta-regression of three trials12
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial12
Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent12
The unique impacts of attentional control and experiential avoidance on PTSD symptomatology: Moderation of nonlinear effects12
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training12
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment11
Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm11
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning11
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood11
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An online, single-session intervention for adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Results from a randomized trial11
Temporal and specific pathways of change in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression11
Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)11
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia11
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample10
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial10
The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery: A multimodal investigation10
Changing maladaptive trauma-related cognitions and emotional activation during trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: Thematic content and relationships with posttraumatic stress symptoms10
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment10
No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance10
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders10
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study10
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP10
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression10
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments10
Fostering socio-emotional competencies in children on the autism spectrum using a parent-assisted serious game: A multicenter randomized controlled trial10
Optimising exposure for adolescents with public speaking anxiety: Affect labelling or positive coping statements?10
Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients9
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]9
A randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation plus savoring for positive affect dysregulation in university students9
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias9
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice9
Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD9
Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome9
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The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia9
Joy beyond fear: Positive emotions after exposure in patients with anxiety disorders and their link to threat expectancy and treatment outcome9
Eye-tracking to assess anxiety-related attentional biases among a large sample of preadolescent children9
Not just “big” data: Importance of sample size, measurement error, and uninformative predictors for developing prognostic models for digital interventions8
Does the network structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms at treatment admission identify patients at risk for non-response?8
Do I really have to do my homework? The role of homework compliance in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome8
Brief emotion regulation strategies to reduce alcohol craving: Mediating role of state difficulties in emotion regulation8
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Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder8
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial8
Jumping back onto the giants’ shoulders: Why emotional memory should be considered in a network perspective of psychopathology8
Active contextualization reduces traumatic memory intrusions via memory integration8
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Itsy bitsy spider: Fear and avoidance (generalization) in a free-exploratory virtual reality paradigm8
Expanding, improving, and understanding behaviour research and therapy through digital mental health8
I've got a friend in me: The effect of self-compassion on affect via emotion regulation in adolescents using ecological momentary assessment8
Patterns of self-harm functions among clinic-referred youth: Associations with treatment outcomes8
Efficacy of a transdiagnostic internet-based program for adolescents with emotional disorders: A randomized controlled trial8
Fluctuations in emotion regulation as a mechanism linking stress and internalizing psychopathology among adolescents: An intensive longitudinal study8
The renewal reducing effect of unpaired unconditional stimuli presented during extinction is not specific to the unconditional stimulus used during acquisition8
One research question, two meta-analyses, three conclusions: Commentary on “A systematic review with meta-analysis of Cognitive Bias Modification interventions for anger and aggression”8
Transdiagnostic and transtherapeutic strategies for optimising autobiographical memory8
Global precedence effect in fear generalization and the role of trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty8
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?8
Differential effectiveness of dialectical behavioural therapy and schema therapy in patients with borderline personality disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial8
Perseveration on suicidal thoughts and images in daily life: An examination of the cognitive model of suicide through a dynamic systems lens7
Exposure and response prevention versus stress management training for adults and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized clinical trial7
Self-report measures of fear learning and extinction and their association with internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy outcome7
A mental imagery intervention targeting suicidal ideation in university students: An assessor-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial7
Biased and inflexible interpretations of social situations predict depressive symptoms and relational outcomes in parent-adolescent dyads7
Shifting threat criterion for morphed facial expressions reduces negative affect7
Pre-deployment threat learning predicts increased risk for post-deployment insomnia: Evidence from the Marine Resiliency Study7
Fear extinction using a conditioned stimulus that was temporally proximal to the unconditioned stimulus reduces physiological and subjective return of fear7
Contamination fear and attention bias variability early in the COVID-19 pandemic7
Associations among threat prediction error, prediction change, and anxiety during an exposure therapy analogue in adults with healthy to clinical social anxiety7
Unpaired unconditional stimuli during fear extinction at full and reduced intensity reduce re-acquisition7
Corrigendum to “Brief training in mindfulness meditation reduces symptoms in patients with a chronic or recurrent lifetime history of depression: A randomized controlled study” [Behaviour Research and7
The efficacy of self-guided internet and mobile-based interventions for preventing anxiety and depression – A systematic review and meta-analysis7
Long-term efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: A 2–8-year follow-up of two randomized controlled trials7
Pavlovian threat conditioning can generate intrusive memories that persist over time7
Temporal associations between adolescents’ psychological inflexibility and posttraumatic stress symptoms after a super typhoon: Examining the mediation of cognitive emotion regulation7
Perseverative thinking is associated with features of spoken language7
Linguistic analysis of Latinx patients’ responses to a text messaging adjunct during cognitive behavioral therapy for depression7
Optimizing indicated cognitive behavioral therapy to prevent child anxiety and depression: A cluster-randomized factorial trial7
How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial7
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Using what we know about threat reactivity models to understand mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Effects of safety behavior fading on social anxiety and emotional disclosure6
Augmenting in vivo exposure with reward-focused strategies: A randomized controlled trial providing preliminary evidence for improved outcomes in individuals with elevated anhedonia6
Handholding reduces the recovery of threat memories and magnifies prefrontal hemodynamic responses6
Attentional processing of concern-related stimuli in dissociative identity disorder: No evidence for inter-identity differences6
The effectiveness of affective compared to neutral working memory training in university students with test anxiety6
Seeking proxies for internal states (SPIS): Towards a novel model of obsessive-compulsive disorder6
On the importance of identifying mechanisms and active ingredients of psychological treatments6
Should I stay or should I go? Investigating reward-based decision-making in anhedonic individuals6
Imagery rescripting: New developments special issue editorial6
Examining concordance between emotion-dependent risk-taking in the laboratory and in the real-world6
Receiving self-compassion in the virtual world: Testing the potential value of biofeedback6
A randomized controlled trial of online mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral interventions for sexual interest/arousal disorder in women: eSense6
Effectiveness of body exposure for the treatment of body image disturbance: A meta-analysis6
Brief imagery rescripting is equivalent to imaginal exposure in improving response to worry images among high worry individuals6
Experiential processing increases positive affect and decreases dampening appraisals during autobiographical memory recall in an anhedonic sample6
Association between the behavioral response during social exclusion and recalled childhood maltreatment6
Quantifying and addressing the impact of measurement error in network models6
Active positive searching versus passive negative avoidance: A comparative investigation of large-scale offline attention bias modification training in nonclinical adolescents6
The role of concreteness in repetitive negative thinking: Temporal dynamics and the predictive value for depression throughout psychological treatment6
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy—Taking it Further (MBCT-TiF) compared to Ongoing Mindfulness Practice (OMP) in the promotion of well-being and mental health: A randomised controlled trial with gra5
Mindfulness-induced self-transcendence promotes universal love with consequent effects on opioid misuse5
Using electrodermal activity to estimate fear learning differences in anxiety: A multiverse analysis5
Time is a great healer: Peak-end memory bias in anxiety – Induced by threat of shock5
Testing theoretical processes that maintain paediatric social anxiety: A comparison between children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder, other mental disorders, and non-clinical controls5
Decision-making for concurrent reward and threat is differentially modulated by trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity5
Heightened generalized conditioned fear and avoidance in women and underlying psychological processes5
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Differences in conditioning using unconditioned stimuli evoking fear, disgust or both emotions simultaneously5
Considerations of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mental health apps: A scoping review of evaluation frameworks5
Finding a positive me: Affective and neural insights into the challenges of positive autobiographical memory reliving in borderline personality disorder5
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Supporting extinction memory updating to promote extinction generalization in a category-based fear conditioning paradigm5
Does self-harm have the desired effect? Comparing non-suicidal self-injury to high-urge moments in an ambulatory assessment design5
Ten generic competences to improve outcomes of cognitive behaviour therapy: Evidence, postulated processes, and clinical implications5
Stuck in thought: Temporal interplay between cognitive building blocks of rumination5
Positive emotion up-regulation in the wake of a cognitively demanding task: An event-related potential study5
The role of the body in altered facial emotion perception in autism and social anxiety5
Effects of imagery rescripting and imaginal exposure on voluntary memory5
Mobile intervention to address cannabis use disorder among black adults: A proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial5
Predicting early dropout in online versus face-to-face guided self-help: A machine learning approach5
Tailored internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for individuals experiencing psychological distress associated with climate change: A pilot randomized controlled trial5
Can you learn to starve yourself? Inducing food avoidance in the laboratory5
Diversity in emotion regulation strategy use: Resilience against posttraumatic stress disorder5
A randomized controlled trial of self-help acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for perfectionism5
A pilot randomized controlled trial of cognitive restructuring for PTSD and alcohol misuse following recent sexual assault: Initial efficacy and feasibility5
Examining the efficacy of the computerized anxiety sensitivity treatment in a guided, group format: A randomized controlled trial5
Comparative effectiveness of remote digital gamified and group CBT skills training interventions for anxiety and depression among college students: Results of a three-arm randomised controlled trial5
Mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy vs. supportive psychotherapy in body dysmorphic disorder: An exploratory mediation analysis5
The effect of universal school-based mindfulness on anhedonia and emotional distress and its underlying mechanisms: A cluster randomised controlled trial via experience sampling in secondary schools5
Symptoms of a feather flock together? An exploratory secondary dynamic time warp analysis of 11 single case time series of suicidal ideation and related symptoms5
Heterogeneity in suicide risk: Evidence from personalized dynamic models4
A randomized controlled trial of an emotion socialization parenting program and its impact on parenting, children's behavior and parent and child stress cortisol: Tuning in to Toddlers4
What makes a trauma ‘pathological’? – Perceived peritraumatic threat influences the development of intrusive memories4
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