Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) has been shown to efficiently treat children and youth exposed to traumatizing events.
The candidate gene approach directly tests the effects of genetic variation within a potentially contributing gene in an association study.
To examine the impact of Internet-based information about how to simulate being mentally healthy on the Rorschach and the MMPI–2, 87 psychiatric outpatients completed the tests under 4 conditions: uncoached and Internet-coached outpatients under faking healthy instructions (faking patients and Internet-faking patients) and patients and nonpatients under standard instructions (standard patients and standard nonpatients).
Under-treatment and unmet needs among survivors have been documented years after terror attacks.
Patients with a history of deliberate self-poisoning (DSP) are prescribed a greater amount of medication than the general public.
Utgitt i forbindelse med professor Ivar Reinvangs 70 årsdag.
Å praktisere mindfulness er en måte å bygge styrke og robusthet til å møte livet, slik det er, med mye intense opplevelser, både lidelse og glede.
Expert witnesses have various tasks that frequently include issues of memory.
Amplifiers are signals that improve the perception of underlying differences in quality.
In what ways has psychology become more influential in Western society?
Data suggest that individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) and superior intelligence can present without specific neurocognitive deficits.
A growing consensus holds that ADHD is a developmental disorder, associated with impaired executive function (EF; Willcutt, Doyle, Nigg, Faraone, & Pennington, 2005).
Karl Halvor Teigen har skrevet kapittelet "Luck" i A. C. Michalos (ed.): Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research
Her får du en innføring i praktiske sider ved sakkyndighet. Sakkyndighetsarbeid som blir utført av psykologer og psykiatere representerer viktige premisser for rettslige avgjørelser. Rollen som sakkyndig skiller seg dermed vesentlig fra klinisk arbeid.
When people are asked to estimate the probabilities of uncertain events, they often neglect the additivity principle, which requires that the probabilities assigned to an exhaustive set of outcomes should add up to 100%.
The paper reflects on the advancement of the psychologisation of Western society through the notion of «the therapeutic ethos» and discusses political and moral implications of its “triumph”.
A prolonged exposure (i.e., perceptual adaptation) to a male or a female face can produce changes (i.e., aftereffects) in the subsequent gender attribution of a neutral or average face, so that it appears respectively more female or more male.
Else-Marie Augusti og Annika Melinder har sammen med Kelly McWilliams, Jacinthe Dion, Stephanie D. Block og Gail S. Goodman skrevet kapittelet "Children as Witnesses" i Gary Melton (ed.):The SAGE Handbook of Child Research
Recent research on verbal probability statements has revealed that some expressions (e.g., possible) are especially appropriate for describing outcomes in the high end of a distribution, whereas other expressions (e.g., certain) are more appropriate for describing low-end values.
This study explored differences in the factor structure of depressive symptoms in patients with and without alcohol abuse, and differences in the severity of depressive symptoms between the two groups.
In the U.S. media, unauthorized immigrants are often interchangeably referred to as “illegal aliens,” “illegal immigrants,” and undocumented immigrants.”
The aim of this study was to analyse the development of verbal working memory in children with high-functioning autism compared to children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and typically developing children.
In three experimental studies, with managers and students as participants, we explore in this paper the relation between two kinds of responsibility judgments, called Responsibility 1 (R1) and Responsibility 2 (R2).
Negatively charged events are often remembered with high accuracy and are less prone to memory distortions; however, whether this applies to individuals with high emotional involvement, it is not well understood.
Normal aging and depression both slows information processing speed which leads to poorer attentional control, shallower inhibition monitoring, poorer encoding, poorer updating of short term memory, and subsequent poorer learning, set-shifting, error monitoring, inhibition control, and cognitive planning.