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Wearable devices in the treatment of mental disorders: Motivational gadgets or new opportunities to improve treatments?
Wiley (2019-09)Researchers and clinicians in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy have always been interested in the use of technology. Beginning in the 1960s, when the idea of exposure therapy was only a decade old, researchers ... -
Web-based, self-help intervention for Adjustment Disorders: acceptance and usability
Interactive Media Institute (IMI) (2017)Despite having proved their efficacy, Internet-based interventions (IBI) have not yet been implemented in health care settings. The acceptability of these interventions may be one key barrier. The present work aims to ...
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What Does Heterosexuality Mean? Same-Sex Attraction, Behaviors, and Discomfort Among Self-identified Heterosexual Young Adults from Spain
Springer (2022-09-06)Sexuality has been censored by Spanish culture, where legal progress in the form of new policies about sexual diversity rights has not been followed by lower levels of social discrimination. This has affected sexual ...
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What format of treatment do patients with emotional disorders prefer and why? Implications for public mental health settings and policies
Public Library of Science (2019)Objective We analyzed the preference of three psychological intervention formats—individual, group, and online—in a sample of 267 patients with a primary diagnosis of emotional disorder in Spanish public mental health ...
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What happens to the inhibitory control functions of the right inferior frontal cortex when this area is dominant for language?
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. (2024-01-18)A low number of individuals show an atypical brain control of language functions that differs from the typical lateralization in the left cerebral hemisphere. In these cases, the neural distribution of other cognitive ...
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What Works Well in HIV Prevention Among Spanish Young People? An Analysis of Differential Effectiveness Among Six Intervention Techniques
Springer (2015-07)The AIDS epidemic remains a concern of public health among young people and adolescents. Prevention programs have revealed diverse deficiencies to attain their main goal: preventing risky behaviors. This experimental study ...
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Who am I really? : The ephemerality of the self-schema following vmPFC damage
Elsevier ScienceDirect (2023-07-21)We studied the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in supporting the self-schema, by asking vmPFC patients, along with healthy and brain-damaged controls, to judge the degree to which they (or another person) ...
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Why Do Young Hispanic Women Take Sexual Risks? Psychological and Cultural Factors for HIV Prevention
Elsevier (2018-09)Young Hispanic women have been particularly affected by HIV. For this reason, we analyzed the influence of cognitive factors, dispositional variables, and gender culture on the HIV risks of two groups of Hispanic women. ...
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Why should we keep the cerebellum in mind when thinking about addiction?
Bentham Science Publishers (2009)Increasing evidence has involved the cerebellum in functions beyond the sphere of motor control. In the present article, we review evidence that involves the cerebellum in addictive behaviour. We aimed on molecular and ...
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Women in contemporary cancer research
Wiley (2020-02-22)Despite recent advances, gender inequality persists in many scientific fields, including medicine. Thus far, no study has extensively analyzed the gender composition of contemporary researchers in the oncology field. ...
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Women publishing in APA journals: a gender analysis of six decades
SAGE Publications (2019)Despite recent advances, gender inequality persists in many scientific fields, and Psychology is not alien to this phenomenon. This study presents the evolution of gender composition in American Psychological Association ...
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Working alliance in low-intensity internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in primary care in Spain: A qualitative study
Frontiers Media (2023)Introduction: Psychotherapies delivered via the Internet have been promoted as an alternative for improving access to psychological treatments. A conceptual working alliance model of blended (i.e., traditional face-to-face ...
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Working alliance inventory applied to virtual and augmented reality (WAI-VAR): psychometrics and therapeutic outcomes
Frontiers Media (2015)This study examines the psychometric properties of the Working Alliance Inventory-Short (WAI-S) adaptation to Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) therapies (WAI-VAR). The relationship between the therapeutic ...
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Working Alliance Inventory for Online Interventions-Short Form (WAI-TECH-SF): The Role of the Therapeutic Alliance between Patient and Online Program in Therapeutic Outcomes
MDPI (2020-08-25)Background: Therapeutic alliance (TA) between the patient and therapist has been related to positive therapeutic outcomes. Because Internet-based interventions are increasingly being implemented, a tool is needed to ...
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Young adult concurrent use and simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana: A cross-national examination among college students in seven countries
Elsevier (2021-12)Introduction: Many young adults report frequent co-use of alcohol and marijuana, with some individuals engaging in simultaneous use (SAM; use of both substances within the same occasion resulting in an overlap of their ...
