Trial reportBehaviour research and therapy2016
Differential role of CBT skills, DBT skills and psychological flexibility in predicting depressive versus anxiety symptom improvement.
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- The prenatal anxiety trajectory and its correlation with stress and psychological flexibility: a longitudinal study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The mediating role of distress tolerance in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and anxiety in a sample of Lebanese adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- What CBT Modules Work Best for Whom? Identifying Subgroups of Depressed Youths by Their Differential Response to Specific Modules.Behavior therapy · 2024Article
- A Review of Transdiagnostic Mechanisms in Cognitive Behavior Therapy.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Skill Use Mediates the Within-Person Effect of the Alliance on Session-to-Session Changes in Anxiety and Depression in the Unified Protocol.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Trajectories of therapeutic skills use and their dynamic relations to symptom change during cognitive-behavioral therapy for bulimia nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Psychological interventions for patients living with prostate cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023Article
- Non-randomised feasibility study of training workshops for Talking Therapies service high-intensity therapists to optimise depression and anxiety outcomes for individuals with co-morbid personality difficulties: a study protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- Do Unified Protocol modules exert general or unique effects on anxiety, depression, and transdiagnostic targets?Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Neurobiological mechanisms of dialectical behavior therapy and Morita therapy, two psychotherapies inspired by Zen.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2023Review
- Rising to the Occasion of This COVID-19-Impacted Nation: Development, Implementation, and Feasibility of the Brief Assessment-Informed Skills Intervention for COVID-19 (BASIC).Cognitive and behavioral practice · 2021Article
- Intensive Dialectical Behavior Treatment for Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder With and Without Substance Use Disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveStudies have reported associations between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skill use and symptom improvement in depressed outpatient samples. However, little is known regarding the temporal relationship between different subsets of therapeutic skills and symptom change among relatively severely depressed patients receiving treatment in psychiatric hospital settings.
methodAdult patients with major depression (N = 173) receiving combined psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment at a psychiatric hospital completed repeated assessments of traditional CBT skills, DBT skills and psychological flexibility, as well as depressive and anxiety symptoms.
resultsResults indicated that only use of behavioral activation (BA) strategies significantly predicted depressive symptom improvement in this sample; whereas DBT skills and psychological flexibility predicted anxiety symptom change. In addition, a baseline symptom severity X BA strategies interaction emerged indicating that those patients with higher pretreatment depression severity exhibited the strongest association between use of BA strategies and depressive symptom improvement.
conclusionsFindings suggest the importance of emphasizing the acquisition and regular use of BA strategies with severely depressed patients in short-term psychiatric settings. In contrast, an emphasis on the development of DBT skills and the cultivation of psychological flexibility may prove beneficial for the amelioration of anxiety symptoms.
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