Jacqueline B Sperling, Abigail M Stark, Olivia Woodson, Esther S Tung, Martha J Falkenstein, Jennie M Kuckertz
{"title":"Family Accommodation of OCD and Anxiety Symptoms Across the Lifespan.","authors":"Jacqueline B Sperling, Abigail M Stark, Olivia Woodson, Esther S Tung, Martha J Falkenstein, Jennie M Kuckertz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family accommodation (FA), efforts to help a loved one avoid anxiety-provoking situations, may reduce distress in the moment, but it has been demonstrated that FA exacerbates anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms over time in both child and adult samples. However, explicit focus on the role of FA across the lifespan is limited, especially for individuals receiving intensive treatment. The current sample included youth (<i>N</i> = 67) and adults (<i>N</i> = 131) ranging in age from 8-76 years, who received intensive and / or residential treatment (IRT) for OC-related or another anxiety disorder at the same hospital. Patients and their family members completed measures of FA and current symptoms at admission and discharge. FA was consistently high across the lifespan: 100% of children and / or their parents and 95% of adults and / or loved ones reporting some form of FA. FA was more frequent among children: 60% of parents reported daily reassurance compared to 24% of family members of adults. Finally, FA at admission was associated with more severe symptoms at admission but did not predict improvement by discharge among both child and adult populations. Our results suggest that FA is pervasive and may persist throughout the lifespan but also can be addressed effectively in intensive treatment so that it does not impede treatment outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"48 6","pages":"676-694"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12962741/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147379905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gillian C Dysart, Philip C Kendall, Jennifer M Gamarra, Bruce F Chorpita, Margaret E Crane
{"title":"Preferred Sources of Mental Health Information, Help, and Referrals for Caregivers of Anxious Youth.","authors":"Gillian C Dysart, Philip C Kendall, Jennifer M Gamarra, Bruce F Chorpita, Margaret E Crane","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"47 6","pages":"292-301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11472882/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142482629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amaya B McClain, Kelly W Guyotte, Nicole Powell, Susan W White
{"title":"Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Support: Stakeholder Perspectives on Optimizing a Transition Program for Autistic Youth and Young Adults.","authors":"Amaya B McClain, Kelly W Guyotte, Nicole Powell, Susan W White","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>AUTISTIC ADOLESCENTS and young adults face lower employment, education, and quality of life outcomes as compared to their nonautistic peers (Lawson et al., 2020; Nord et al., 2016). To address these issues, the Stepped Transition to Employment and Postsecondary Education Success (STEPS; White et al., 2017) program was developed to help students successfully transition into adulthood. Given the established effectiveness of STEPS (e.g., White et al., 2021), we sought input from community partners to reduce the gap between mental health and developmental disability support (Laxman et al., 2019; White et al., 2023) and to maximize the program's scalability and accessibility through the use of a community engagement framework. This study examined the perspectives of community stakeholders on different aspects of the program's development, such as the barriers and facilitators to implementing STEPS and how to make the program more scalable and accessible for families, clinicians, and educators.</p>","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"47 5","pages":"266-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13101964/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147791899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lily A Brown, Cindy Swinkels, Crystal Barnes, Alexis May, Stephanie Daniel, Michael Hill, Dev Crasta, Marianne Goodman, Steven L Sayers
{"title":"Coaching third parties for suicide prevention.","authors":"Lily A Brown, Cindy Swinkels, Crystal Barnes, Alexis May, Stephanie Daniel, Michael Hill, Dev Crasta, Marianne Goodman, Steven L Sayers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Concerned allies often call crisis lines and other call centers about their loved ones' mental health. Callers to Coaching Into Care, a non-crisis call center, often report concerns about suicide risk in Veterans yet little is known about how best to support those callers. We conducted a documentation review to understand standard operating procedures, barriers, and opportunities for risk reduction.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Across 1,581 unique callers with an initial call over a 6 month period, 225 callers (14.2%) were identified for contact note review and coding.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Calls were frequently characterized by current suicidal ideation (62.7%), suicide attempts (24.0%), and access to lethal means (35.6%), although use of lethal means safety interventions was infrequently documented (12.9%). The majority of callers were coded as open to intervention (83.4%). After coaching, 16% of Veterans who were previously not connected to mental health care had connected to care in the community or VA.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There was substantial heterogeneity in assessments and interventions used, particularly related to documentation of access to lethal means; however, there is an opportunity to provide risk reduction education and communication skill building for family and friends of Veterans. Those closest to Veterans report being open to learning new ways to engage with Veterans around safety and mental wellness.</p>","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"47 5","pages":"247-255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11376349/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142156868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bharat Bharat, Alex Dopp, Briana Last, Gary Howell, Erum Nadeem, Clara Johnson, Shannon Wiltsey Stirman
{"title":"Deimplementation Strategies to End Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Change Efforts: Undoing a Harmful Legacy of Behavior Therapy.","authors":"Bharat Bharat, Alex Dopp, Briana Last, Gary Howell, Erum Nadeem, Clara Johnson, Shannon Wiltsey Stirman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"46 7","pages":"261-270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11661860/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142879014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tyra Bergstrom, Brie M Reid, Sharon Y Lee, Laura R Stroud
{"title":"The History Of Clinical Psychology and its Relationship to Ableism: Using the Past to Inform Future Directions in Disability-Affirming Care.","authors":"Tyra Bergstrom, Brie M Reid, Sharon Y Lee, Laura R Stroud","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the prominence of psychological testing in the early history of clinical psychology in the US, harms perpetuated by and within the field on disabled communities are seldom considered in clinical psychology's teaching, education, and practice. We review clinical psychology's historical and current relationship to ableism-the systematic discrimination, exclusion, and oppression of people with physical or mental disabilities and chronic illnesses. This paper also discusses the medical model of disability, perspectives on current treatments from members of the disability community, the impacts of disability stigma on professional and academic settings for clinical psychology, and future directions for disability-affirming practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"46 7","pages":"255-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11562767/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142634463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LGBTQ+ Stress and Trauma Within the <i>DSM-5</i>: A Case Study Adaptation of the UConn Racial/Ethnic Stress and Trauma Survey (UnRESTS).","authors":"Jenna M Wolff, RaeAnn Anderson, Katya Mickelson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"46 4","pages":"165-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11376306/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategies for Inclusivity of American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples in Behavior Therapy Research: Within-Group Diversity, Data, and Ethical Recommendations.","authors":"Maria Tavo, Nyché Skavaq Sivulliuqti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"45 5","pages":"168-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214022/pdf/nihms-1806825.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9605841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Preliminary Development of the North Dakota Sexual Violence Intervention Acceptability Measure.","authors":"RaeAnn E Anderson, Sara K Kuhn, Anne E Nickell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"45 5","pages":"175-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11433461/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142334050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Busa, Jeremy Wernick, John Kellerman, Elizabeth Glaeser, Kyle McGregor, Julius Wu, Aron Janssen
{"title":"A Descriptive Case Study of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group Intervention Adaptation for Transgender Youth With Social Anxiety Disorder.","authors":"Samantha Busa, Jeremy Wernick, John Kellerman, Elizabeth Glaeser, Kyle McGregor, Julius Wu, Aron Janssen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74953,"journal":{"name":"The Behavior therapist","volume":"45 4","pages":"135-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9236272/pdf/nihms-1818720.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40408392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}