Research and Articles

The study used a cross-sectional design to explore the role of anxiety in emotional expression (EE) and emotional flexibility (EF) in parent-child dyads. The sample comprised 128 children with an anxiety disorder (AD) and their parents, and a comparison group of 44 children without an anxiety disorder (and their parents). Children were recruited from a […]

Using a repeated-measures, pre-post therapy design, a pilot study was conducted to assess the effect of Multiple Family Therapy (MFT) on adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Between 2007–2010, 32 patients (and their families) underwent MFT at an eating disorders service in Denmark. All were included in the study but12 were excluded from data analysis (primarily

A repeated measures design was used to assess the acceptability and effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for hording difficulties in 14 people with mild intellectual disabilities (ID). All participants were on the social-services case-register; residing in community properties in Birmingham. Potential participants were identified by their key-workers as having difficulty with hoarding. Prior to inclusion

What follows is an anonymised case study I submitted during doctoral training in Clinical Psychology. The person this case study is based upon consented to dissemination of the following report. However, all personal identifiable information has been removed or edited.                    This paper describes an individual CBT-informed intervention undertaken with someone experiencing

he study focussed on comparing three manualised therapies for treating people with borderline personality disorder (BPD). The authors reported using a randomised-controlled trial design but did not control some variables as tightly as might be expected. For example, therapy was conducted in the community, medication usage varied considerably across participants and there were between-group differences

To explore the types of cognitive changes that result from cognitive therapy (CT) for depression, the authors assessed whether people engaging in CT showed changes in maladaptive beliefs and/or their use of CT techniques for coping with negative thinking, and whether these changes related to improvements in depressive symptoms. The Ways of Responding Scale (WOR)

The authors aimed to revise the Criteria for Reporting the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions in healthcare (CReDECI); a set of 16 best-practice  guidelines published in 2012. The research design was essentially a survey conducted in three stages.   The first stage involved recruiting 38 researchers from a European research network to provide feedback

The researchers aimed to assess the effectiveness of a single session of imagery re-scripting (ImR) in people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) whose body-image concerns were deemed to be related to emotional memories. The researchers reported inclusion criteria (e.g. a diagnosis of BDD) and exclusion criteria (e.g. cormorbid psychosis) but did not report excluding any

The authors’ primary aim was to draw upon previous research to inform the development of a framework for adapting interventions to different cultural groups. A secondary aim was to explore the degree to which previous cultural adaptations adhered to the core components of evidence-based interventions (EBIs). To achieve their aims, the authors conducted a systematic

The primary aim of the study was to assess whether providing clinicians and supervisors with regular feedback about patients’ progress would improve clinical outcomes. The researchers were also interested in whether different types of feedback would affect clinicians’ perceptions of their patients’ progress. The study was conducted in an NHS clinic that provided psychological services