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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Mechanism of change"”.
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The Impact of Brief Mindfulness Interventions on Attentional Control in Anxious Undergraduates: A Randomized Controlled Study
… with reduced anxiety, enhanced tolerance of negative affect, lower stress reactivity, improved task concentration, increased cognitive flexibility, and enhanced neurological functioning. However, mindfulness-based treatments are highly varied in duration, type and extent or training …
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Mentalized Affectivity Among Adolescents in Wilderness Therapy: An Initial Exploration
… that underlies psychopathology and is a target of psychotherapeutic intervention as a mechanism of change. Little research has investigated MA’s role in psychopathology and treatment for adolescents. Change in MA has yet to be investigated. Wilderness therapy is a non-traditional treatment model …
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An Inquiry into the Necessary Organizational Conditions for Effective Human Service Delivery
… relationship, integrating theories of organizational complexity and organizational culture, and concluding with autonomy and participation as the necessary organizational conditions for effectiveness. Article two tests the associations amongst participation, autonomy, and precursors …
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The causal role of selective information processing biases towards threat in anxiety
… to anxiety was investigated by examining change in emotional vulnerability as mediated by attentional training. Training was given on a modified dot-probe detection task, where participants were trained either to attend towards threat or towards neutral stimuli. Pre and post training …
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A Heuristic and Qualitative Study Investigating the Mechanisms of Change in Art Therapy
… generate new knowledge related to the phenomena of mechanisms of change in art therapy. Further understanding and identification of mechanisms of change that advance clients toward therapeutic goals is needed in the field of art therapy. This study was particularly focused on gaining further …
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What is the role of professional helping relationships in altering the trajectories of young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage?
… facing severe and multiple disadvantage and professional helpers— employed by not-for-profit organisations— can alter the life trajectories of the young people. Specifically, the research explored five sub-questions relating to the characteristics of the youth population, the nature of positive …
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An Experimental Analysis of Acceptance vs. Change Skills for Emotions in Adults with Stress- and Trauma-related Problems
Although the vast majority of adults have experienced a traumatic event, only a minority meets criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), while many still develop clinically significant distress and impaired functioning. Yet, current PTSD-focused interventions have left a gap for …
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A pilot study on the effects of brief-ACT on college student drinking, correlates of drinking, and cognitive fusion.
… the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a single session of modified Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The study investigated whether various drinking outcome variables, cognitive fusion, a theoretically-hypothesized mechanism of change in ACT which has yet to be studied empirically, …
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Our Identities Are Different: Unpacking the Presence and Absence of Organizational Identity in Corporate Apologies
… the statement that they are given. Following Goffman's (1971) classification of accounts and apologies, I argue that public demands for an apology may include an implicit demand for a change in the organizational identity. However, organizational identity and apology literatures do not consider …
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The efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in cultivating mindfulness-skills and self-compassion and the association with rumination in people with history of recurrent depression: A randomized controlled trial
… which are believed to be key factors for change in depressogenic cognitive patterns such as rumination. The aim of this study was to explore the efficacy of MBCT in cultivating mindfulness-skills and self-compassion, in a sample of people with recurrent depression. An additional aim was to …
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Understanding the Association Between Social Networks, College Student Alcohol Use, and Protective Behavioral Strategy Use and Beliefs
… negative alcohol-related consequences, are often assessed as a mechanism of change and predictor of alcohol outcomes (Martens, Taylor, Damann, Page, Mowry, & Cimini, 2004). Still, the association between social networks’ and college students’ own PBS use has yet to be explored. The current …
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An oceanographic research facility
The natures of two contiguous worlds in a dramatic symbiosis inspire a singular expression for the two. The moving, highly energetic, brought to order through regulation; not abruptly, but sensitively, through dynamic forms and moving interactions. Land joins water and forms a critical edge that …
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Mediating mobility at the school gate: interpreting London's School Street schemes
… daily time-limited closures to streets in front of schools, known as ‘School Streets’. Nearly a third of the city’s primary schools now have School Streets, with their rapid implementation as emergency measures marking an acceleration of state-led ‘tactical urbanism’ in London. However, despite a …
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An exploration of therapist and patient factors and their relationship to outcome in "2+1" brief therapy
<u>Introduction:</u> the area of process research has identified differences in the process of CB and PI therapy and has highlighted factors which contribute to outcome. The present research aimed to explore three factors, therapist focus, client experiencing and client cognitive change, in very …
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The ecology of change in outdoor therapy (ECO-Therapy) model: A preliminary theoretical framework for nature-based pediatric occupational therapy practice
The vital childhood occupation of outdoor play in nature is on the decline in industrialized societies around the world. Ubiquitous technology use, sedentarism, over-protective parenting, and urbanization have caused a mass human migration to indoor lifestyles characterized by a lack of connection …
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Reducing Consumption Levels of Alcohol In Midlife (ReCLAIM): The development and testing of a theory and evidence-based online intervention targeting automatic processes
Background: In the UK, prevalence of drinking at increased risk (>14 units a week) is higher than average among adults aged between 45 and 75 years, and 78% of alcohol-specific deaths occur in those aged between 40 and 69 years. There are indications of low engagement with alcohol-related …
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Fashioning the Hip-Hop Dancing Body: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to “Fresh” Performance Practice
… is constituted through the material movements of, and connections between, bodies, clothing, and space. The research proposes a new materialist framework and highlights, through the concepts of assemblage and distributed agency, the constitutive entanglement between human and non-human agencies …
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Mindful yoga : an evaluation of a stress-reduction intervention for stressed adults
… meditation and yoga to take advantage of the benefits of both interventions and the popularity of yoga, proposing a pilot of a mindful yoga intervention. The second purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of mindful yoga at increasing mindfulness, as measured by the …
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Process and Outcome Evaluation of a Social-Networking Website for Health Promotion
… a significant threat to the health and wellbeing of college students. However, studies of interventions to improve the health behaviors of college students are few in number, largely atheoretical, and have limited potential for widespread dissemination. The goal of this study was to evaluate a …
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Stepping Stones to Resiliency in Families: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Study Following a Two-Generation Preschool Program
… living with less than half the low-income cut-off (LICO), and mental illness, addiction, or social isolation within the family. The aim of this explanatory sequential mixed methods study (quant-->QUAL) was to conduct a longitudinal follow-up of families after children reached age 10 years, to …
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