JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIATRY行为治疗与实验精神病学杂志
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIATRY(英文缩写 J BEHAV THER EXP PSY),ISSN 0005-7916,eISSN 1873-7943,中文译名:行为治疗与实验精神病学杂志 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
发文量统计区间：2025-09-27 至 2026-09-27，按本站收录文献的发表日期统计。
期刊介绍
历年影响因子趋势
| JCR 数据年份 | 影响因子 | JCR 分区 |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2.662 | Q3 |
| 2022 | 1.800 | Q3 |
| 2023 | 1.700 | Q3 |
| 2024 | 2.200 | Q2 |
| 2025 | 2.300 | Q2 |
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIATRY 最新收录文献
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1. Progressing the evaluation of managing emotions groups in severe mental illness: feasibility of methodology for an effectiveness randomised controlled trial of scaled up delivery.
PMID:日期:2026-12-01Transdiagnostic group interventions targeting emotion regulation (ER) are commonly offered to individuals with severe mental illness (SMI). Previous feasibility studies have provided insufficient information to support progression to effectiveness evaluation of scaled-up delivery. We aimed to address this gap. We conducted a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a protocolised group ER intervention for individuals with SMI, delivered online and facilitated by a trained junior workforce. Feasibility markers were recruitment, retention, data completeness, intervention uptake and completion (≥50% sessions), adherence to the intervention protocol, and participant satisfaction. Participants were recruited from community mental health services and randomly allocated (1:1) to intervention or waitlist control groups. Feasibility was demonstrated, with 6/7 markers categorised 'green' and 1/7 'amber' against predetermined progression criteria. Recruitment targets were met (n = 34 service users; n = 9 junior facilitators), retention was 85.3%, and paired outcome completion was 82.4%. Staff self-reported high adherence and participant satisfaction was 89.6%. Intervention completion was 61.1% (green target=>80%; amber target=>60%), suggesting scope to improve engagement. Participants dropping out of the intervention were lost to follow-up, limiting assessment of reasons for non-continuation. Implications of unblinded researchers at post-assessment are discussed. Group-level and contextual treatment data were not routinely collected due to naturalistic intervention delivery. An effectiveness trial of a protocolised group ER intervention for SMI, delivered online by junior staff, is feasible. A larger multi-site pilot trial to estimate sample size for a confirmatory trial, incorporating methodological refinements to increase intervention completion, is the next step.
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2. Examining attentional biases in contamination fear and checking symptoms: An eye-tracking study.
PMID:日期:2026-12-01Cognitive biases are implicated in the maintenance of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), yet findings from reaction-time paradigms remain mixed. Eye-tracking offers a direct window into these attentional processes. We examined symptom-specific attentional patterns in university students selected for high vs. low contamination fear (HCF n = 10, LCF n = 10) and high vs. low checking (HC n = 10, LC n = 10) from a screened sample (N = 774). Participants viewed symptom-matched (disgust or checking) and general threat pairs against neutral images. Attentional bias was indexed as vigilance (first fixation and latency), disengagement (first-fixation duration), and maintenance (fixation count and total duration). Results indicated that attentional biases were primarily evident during the maintenance stage rather than early orienting. For the contamination dimension, significant interaction emerged for maintenance. Specifically, HCF participants demonstrated significantly reduced gaze maintenance for disgust images compared to threat and neutral images, consistent with a vigilance-avoidance pattern suggestive of attentional avoidance. For the checking dimension, while significant main effects for image type indicated rapid orienting to checking cues and sustained viewing of checking and threat-related images across all participants, these effects were not significantly moderated by symptom group. Findings indicate that attentional bias in OCD is heterogeneous and partially distinct across symptom subtypes. These results underscore the value of symptom-matched stimuli and gaze metrics, support cognitive bias modification to symptom dimensions, and highlight eye-tracking as a useful tool for parsing vigilance, disengagement, and maintenance. Limitations, clinical implications, and future directions are discussed.
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3. Persistence of safety behaviors or the acquisition of new ones? The effect of cross-US reinstatement in safety behaviors.
PMID:日期:2026-12-01Exposure to a stressful trauma after successful treatment can lead to relapse, known as fear reinstatement. In the laboratory, fear reinstatement involves re-exposing individuals to an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US) after successful extinction learning, leading to the reinstatement of fear to a previously threatening conditioned stimulus (CS). While fear reinstatement is typically thought to evoke the return of old fear, preliminary evidence suggests that using a qualitatively different US during reinstatement can elicit new fear (i.e., this new US is expected to follow the CS instead of the US used in training). This study aimed to expand on this finding by examining safety behaviors, a behavioral response that minimizes US onset. To this end, participants first acquired conditioned fear and safety behaviors to the CS, followed by extinction learning to it. On the second day, some participants encountered a novel reinstatement US (Cross-US), while others received either the same US as in acquisition for reinstatement (Same-US) or no reinstatement manipulation (No-US). After reinstatement manipulation, the Cross-US group showed a larger increase in US avoidance and US expectancy to the novel US compared to the other groups. Our findings suggest that reinstatement elicits new fear and safety behaviors, underlying that treatment might benefit from addressing a range of safety behaviors.
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4. Exploring a novel perspective on dissociative symptoms in PTSD: A habit-goal framework.
PMID:日期:2026-12-01Dissociative symptoms are common across nearly all psychiatric disorders, especially in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet, our understanding of their underlying mechanisms remains limited. This study presents a new theoretical framework, the habit-goal framework of dissociation, which conceptualizes dissociative symptoms as habitual experiential avoidance. We propose that, due to repetition and negative reinforcement, dissociative symptoms transform into mental habits that are automatically elicited by negative emotions. Using self-report measures, we investigated two core assumptions of this framework in 55 individuals (46 women, six men, three otherwise identified; M = 42.55 (14.59)) with PTSD and long-term dissociative symptoms, currently receiving PTSD treatment. Firstly, we examined whether dissociation is a form of experiential avoidance, by assessing participants' beliefs about the positive (e.g., relief) and negative consequences of dissociation. Secondly, we investigated whether dissociative symptoms are more under habitual than goal-directed control, by assessing the subjective automaticity and goal-directedness of the initiation of dissociation. In line with our expectations, most participants identified negative emotions as their primary trigger to dissociate, and experienced dissociation as a way of emotional avoidance. However, dissociation frequency was associated with beliefs about negative, but not positive consequences of dissociation. Furthermore, consistent with the habit-goal framework, participants experienced dissociative symptoms as being initiated automatically rather than being under goal-directed control, and increasingly so over time. To conclude, we found partial support for the habit-goal framework of dissociation. This study marks a first step to test this promising model of the persistence of dissociative symptoms and its implications for treatment.
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5. Guided memory retrieval shapes subsequent intrusive memories: A systematic manipulation of memory retrieval.
PMID:日期:2026-12-01While intrusive memories are common following a traumatic event, they taper off over time for the majority of individuals. For others, intrusions persist and become the cardinal symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder. Post-event memory retrieval may be a factor in the persistence of intrusive memories. Better processing of contextual details surrounding a traumatic event may limit the generalizability of intrusions, subsequently reducing their frequency and related distress. In a trauma film paradigm study, participants (N = 87) watched a 12 min clip of a fictional assault and were then randomly assigned to retrieve contextual details (i.e., details before and after the assault), general gist details (i.e., details about the assault itself), or film-independent details (control; i.e., film-independent details about study participation) via text message later the same day. Trauma film-related memory intrusions were prospectively assessed for a total of four days. While there was no main effect of condition on overall intrusion frequency, context and gist retrieval decreased intrusion distress and vividness over time (ds = 0.26 - 0.32) relative to the control, and resulted in lower overall self-reported intrusive memory severity at follow-up in the gist condition (d = 0.36). Notably, this study manipulated memory retrieval rather than encoding, arguing that systematic retrieval of the trauma film content potentially enhanced trace specificity. Among trauma survivors, altering memory encoding is often not logistically feasible, whereas early interventions that better target memory retrieval may help reduce the distress of intrusive memories and prevent chronic psychopathology.
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6. Does future-oriented imagery rescripting increase willingness to carry out a social anxiety-related behavioral experiment? An extended replication.
PMID:日期:2026-12-01Mental images of threat are common in social anxiety disorder and could impede exposure to fear-relevant situations. Landkroon et al. (2022) found that imagery rescripting of anticipated future threat, compared to no-task, increases willingness of non-clinical individuals to conduct a social anxiety-related behavioral experiment. The aim of this two-day preregistered extended replication study was to examine whether the effects persist beyond the intervention session by scheduling the behavioral experiment 1-7 days after the intervention. On Day 1, 60 pre-screened participants were asked to design a behavioral experiment to test an idiosyncratic negative belief about a feared social situation. They were then randomly assigned to imagery rescripting (focused on their worst feared outcome of the behavioral experiment) or no-task. Participants' willingness to do the behavioral experiment and their threat beliefs was measured. On Day 2, they were asked to carry out the behavioral experiment. The imagery rescripting group, compared to the control group, did not show increased willingness or compliance to do the behavioral experiment on Day 1 or 2. Furthermore, the imagery rescripting did not lead to greater reductions in threat beliefs on either day. The quality of the imagery rescripting intervention was not assessed, and given the brief nature of the intervention, any effects may have dissipated before participants decided whether to carry out the behavioral experiment. There was no evidence that imagery rescripting leads to changes in willingness or compliance to do a fear-relevant behavioral experiment. More research is needed to examine interventions that can enhance exposure in socially anxious people.
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7. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for flashforwards: Randomized multiple baseline single case experimental design in social anxiety disorder.
PMID:日期:2026-09-18Negative mental imagery in social anxiety is common and can involve memories of adverse events or catastrophic future anticipations (i.e., "flashforwards"). Laboratory research has shown that such imagery can be modulated by dual-tasking interventions, which is used in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Using a replicated sequential single-case experimental design, we examined whether EMDR therapy for flashforwards reduces social anxiety and avoidance of fear-related situations, relative to baseline, in eight individuals with social anxiety disorder. Participants were recruited from a specialized treatment center after unsuccessful CBT or because of treatment complexity (e.g., comorbidity) and were randomly assigned to varying baseline durations before EMDR therapy. Outcome variables were daily social anxiety and avoidance. Randomization tests were conducted for each case separately to test whether EMDR therapy compared to a baseline phase resulted in less daily 1) social anxiety and 2) social avoidance for individual participants and for the total sample. The preregistered randomization tests did not show statistically significant between-phase differences in daily social anxiety, daily social avoidance, or weekly social anxiety severity. Exploratory, unplanned permutation distancing tests, conducted to examine the possible influence of serial dependency, indicated lower scores during the intervention phase across all three outcomes. At the individual level, these exploratory analyses indicated reductions in daily social anxiety for six participants, in daily social avoidance for three participants, and in weekly social anxiety severity for five participants. Aggregated effect-size estimates were medium for daily social anxiety, small for daily social avoidance, and small to medium for weekly social anxiety severity. Limitations include modest serial dependency, absence of an active treatment control condition, absence of long-term follow-up measurements, and inclusion of one participant without a clearly identifiable flashforward, although treatment adhered to the prespecified Stage 1 treatment protocol. The preregistered analyses did not provide confirmatory evidence that EMDR therapy for flashforwards reduced social anxiety or avoidance. However, the descriptive findings, effect-size estimates, and exploratory analyses showed a pattern consistent with possible reductions in social anxiety, while findings for avoidance were weaker and less consistent. These results should be considered hypothesis-generating and require confirmation in adequately powered controlled studies. TRIAL REGISTRATION PRE-REGISTRATION: https://osf.io/f9hw8/?view_only=dec61cab812d4093bf98842eec7cefd6.
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8. Gaze aversion and emotional mimicry deficits in individuals with schizophrenia during naturalistic interaction.
PMID:日期:2026-09-02Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit a range of verbal and nonverbal impairments during social interaction, which contribute to reduced interaction quality and broader social dysfunction. To optimize clinical interventions, it is essential to identify the mechanisms underlying these deficits. Building on previous findings demonstrating reduced emotional mimicry in schizophrenia, the present study examined whether gaze aversion is associated with instances of failed mimicry during naturalistic conversation. In a within-partner design, interacting partners (n = 20) each engaged in one conversation with an individual with schizophrenia (n = 20) and one with a matched healthy control (n = 20). Prior analyses using OpenFace-based video coding revealed diminished emotional mimicry in the schizophrenia group. In the present study, the same video recordings were reanalyzed using FaceReader to extract gaze direction. We specifically examined gaze aversion during the interaction and, more critically, during episodes of failed mimicry, defined as instances in which participants did not reciprocate their partner's smile. Results indicated that although individuals with schizophrenia did not display significantly greater overall gaze aversion across the entire interaction, they exhibited significantly greater gaze aversion when their partner was smiling. This pattern was associated with a higher proportion of failed mimicry accompanied by gaze aversion in the schizophrenia group compared to controls. These findings suggest that reduced visual attention may represent one mechanism contributing to emotional mimicry deficits in schizophrenia. Clinical implications are discussed, along with the potential role of stigma in exacerbating these processes.
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9. Can positive mental imagery help high worriers stop worrying? An experimental test.
PMID:日期:2026-09-01Replacing worry with images of positive outcomes reduces negative intrusions, worry and trait anxiety in GAD. However, the possibility that replacing worry with positive imagery, unrelated to worry content, can terminate a stream of worry has not been tested. High worriers (N = 201) were randomly allocated to receive training to replace worry with an unrelated positive image (active condition) or a control condition. Participants completed the stop worry task (SWT) in which they were instructed to engage in worry, and then stop worrying. Participants in the active condition were asked to bring a positive image to mind if they began to worry during the stop worry phase. We conducted exploratory comparisons of two modes of delivery of each condition: (i) non-guided (no experimenter guidance), (ii) with experimenter guidance (via videocall). Participants in the active condition were better able to stop worrying overall during the SWT than those in the control condition, with stronger effects within experimenter-facilitated condition compared to the non-guided condition. Participants in the active condition were also better at initially shifting away from worry and sustaining this shift than the control condition - irrespective of whether they received experimenter guidance. Within the experimenter-guided condition, the active condition sustained longer streams of non-negative thoughts than the control condition. Perceived ability to stop worrying was better in the active versus control condition. Hence, replacing worry with an unrelated positive image helps high worriers to stop worrying. Our preliminary findings suggest that this approach holds promise as a tool to reduce worry.
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10. Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on depression and anxiety in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
PMID:日期:2026-09-01Depression is a prevalent mental health issue among older adults, often exacerbated by chronic illness, social isolation, and age-related cognitive changes. Standard treatments (e.g., pharmacotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy) may not always be effective, acceptable, or accessible for this population. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) integrates mindfulness practices with cognitive therapy and may offer a scalable, non-pharmacological approach to late-life depression. To evaluate the effectiveness of MBCT on depressive symptoms in adults aged ≥60 years. Secondary outcomes were anxiety symptoms and quality-of-life indicators when reported. We searched PubMed (MEDLINE) and Scopus for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing MBCT with control conditions in adults aged ≥60 years. Random-effects meta-analyses were conducted using standardized mean differences (Hedges g) for depressive symptom severity across scales. Because fewer than 10 studies were available per outcome, publication bias was not formally assessed. Three RCTs (total n = 178) met inclusion criteria. Two RCTs (n = 121) contributed data to the post-intervention meta-analysis of depressive symptoms. MBCT was associated with significantly lower depressive symptom severity than control conditions (pooled Hedges g = -0.92, 95% CI -1.30 to -0.55; I = 0%). Evidence for anxiety and quality-of-life outcomes was limited and could not be pooled; no eligible trials reported relapse/recurrence outcomes. MBCT may reduce depressive symptoms in older adults compared with control conditions, but the evidence base remains small and heterogeneous in measures and comparators. Larger, methodologically rigorous trials with standardized outcomes and longer follow-up are needed to clarify effectiveness for anxiety, quality of life, and durability of effects.