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Publications
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What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices
June 18, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative enquiry was to map the psychological motives behind sustainable lifestyles.
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Changes in the trauma narratives of youth receiving trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy in relation to posttraumatic stress symptoms
June 11, 2018
OBJECTIVE: To understand the meaning of trauma narration, we examined changes in the trauma narratives of youth receiving trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) and explored the relationship between changes in narratives and in posttraumatic stress.
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Resilience trajectories to full recovery in first-episode schizophrenia
June 4, 2018
Resilience is successful adaptation despite adversity.
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Comparing the dimensional structure and diagnostic algorithms between DSM-5 and ICD-11 PTSD in children and adolescents
May 28, 2018
In contrast to the DSM-5, which expanded the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom profile to 20 symptoms, a workgroup of the upcoming ICD-11 suggested a reduced symptom profile with six symptoms for PTSD.