Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for preadolescent children with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is typically derived from adult cognitive behavioural models of OCD; however, it unknown whether these apply to children. This systematic review examined 11 cognitive, and familial maintenance mechanisms identified OCD descriptions how family factors may maintain applied symptoms/disorder (OC...

objective: dysfunctional beliefs of tuberculosis patients have pivotal role in treatment and development of their serious psychiatric problems. cognitive group psychotherapy has been utilized to manage the dysfunctional beliefs. methods: in a quasi-experimental study and a pretest and posttest design, 24 male tubercular patients were selected by convenient sampling and then randomly assigned to...

It has been hypothesized that decision-making difficulties in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder may arise from intolerance for uncertainty. We investigated the relationship between obsessivity and intolerance for uncertainty (defined in terms of need for cognitive closure), controlling for state and trait anxiety and depression. We tested nonclinical subjects through the Need for Clos...

OBJECTIVE Predictors of employment outcomes of individuals with schizophrenia have continued to be studied over the past decade with implications for the development of vocational interventions to help the mentally ill get and keep jobs. METHODS A total of 62 relevant studies since 1998 were systematically reviewed by means of meta-analysis and frequency counts. Frequency count allowed all 62...

The emergence of language around a child’s first birthday is one of the greatest transformations in human development. Does this transition require a fundamental shift in the child’s knowledge or beliefs, or could it instead be attributable to more gradual changes in processing abilities? We present a simple model of cognitive performance that supports the second conclusion. The premise of this...

It has recently been suggested that brain areas crucial for mentalizing, including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), are not activated exclusively during mentalizing about the intentions, beliefs, morals or traits of the self or others, but also more generally during cognitive reasoning including relational processing about objects. Contrary to this notion, a meta-analysis of cognitive reaso...