Objective In psychotherapy, strength-based methods (SBM) represent efforts to build on
patients' strengths while addressing the deficits and challenges that led them to come to …

Worry is a chain of thoughts and images, negatively affect-laden and relatively
uncontrollable. The worry process represents an attempt to engage in mental …

Worry is a central feature of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Although worry is related to
anxiety and maintained by beliefs that worry is uncontrollable, there is scarce research on …

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has often been described as the “basic” anxiety
disorder. This conceptualization is due in part to its early onset, persistent course, and …

Sudden gains, incidences of unexpectedly large and stable session to session symptom
reductions during psychotherapy, have been shown in samples of individuals receiving …

Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for generalized anxiety
disorder (GAD), GAD often shows a chronic clinical course and common deterioration after …

Objective Despite its considerable potential, psychotherapy research has made limited use
of small-scale experimental study designs to test intervention components. This study …

Flirting situations are opportunities to behave in extraverted ways. However, it is not clear
whether engaging in flirting behavior predicts extraversion. The current study explored …

Objectives There is limited information on how a change in patients' expectations over time
results in symptom change in psychotherapy. This study aimed to investigate the changes in …

The mechanisms of change underlying the effectiveness of personality change interventions
are largely unclear. In this study, we used data from a three-month digital intervention with …