This narrative state-of-the-art review paper describes the progress in the understanding and
treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Over the last four decades, the scientific …

Expectations are a central maintaining mechanism in mental disorders and most
psychological treatments aim to directly or indirectly modify clinically relevant expectations …

Background: Previous research has shown that multiple traumatic experiences cumulatively
increase the risk for the development of severe symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder …

Social interactions are dynamic, context-dependent, and reciprocal events that influence
prospective strategies and require constant practice and adaptation. This complexity of …

Background Reliable outcome data of psychosomatic inpatient and day hospital treatment
with a focus on psychotherapy are important to strengthen ecological validity by assessing …

Prevalence rates of peripartum depression and anxiety are high and correlate with adverse
maternal and neonatal outcomes. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) have been shown …

Traumatic events often lead to counterfactual comparison (CFC), defined as comparing
one's current attributes to that of a hypothetical mentally simulated alternative that might …

Previous research has identified maladaptive emotion regulation as a key factor in
psychopathology. Thus, addressing emotion regulation via scalable, low-threshold digital …

Background Studies measuring hair cortisol concentration (HCC) have been increasingly
conducted to document stress-related, endocrine changes aggregated over time. Previous …

One important aim of experimental psychopathology research is to inform development of
new interventions derived from basic science. However, testing whether a newly developed …