The compulsive nature of weight loss behaviors central to anorexia nervosa (AN), such as relentless self-starvation and over-exercise, has led to the suggestion of parallels between AN and other compulsive disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and addictions. There is a huge unmet need for effective treatments in AN, which has high rates of morbidity and the highest mortality ra...

Perfectionism is a transdiagnostic construct associated with a range of diagnoses, including depression, eating disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder. Treatments that directly target perfectionist cognitions have been shown to successfully reduce associated pathologies. However, the way in which they do this is not clear. We set out to assess the role of one candidate mechanism of action,...

The dissemination of evidence-based psychological treatments (EBPT) is a pending task for Clinical Psychology. Through an online survey and following the Theoretical Framework Acceptability, we analyzed opinions about use, acceptability intention to use in future Unified Protocol transdiagnostic treatment emotional disorders (UP) sample 153 professionals General Health Psychology (GHPs). All pa...

OBJECTIVE Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is prevalent and associated with clinically significant consequences. Developing time-efficient and cost-effective interventions for NSSI has proven difficult given that the critical components for NSSI treatment remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the specific effects of mindful emotion awareness training and cognitive reapprais...

Mixing a small amount of liquid into powder can give rise to dry-looking granules; increasing the eventually produces flowing suspension. We perform experiments on these phenomena using Spheriglass, an industrially realistic model powder. Drawing recent advances in understanding friction-induced shear thickening and jamming suspensions, we offer unified description granulation suspension rheolo...

The high degree of comorbidity among mental disorders has generated interest in identifying transdiagnostic processes associated with multiple types of psychopathology. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema conceptualized rumination as one such transdiagnostic process associated with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, binge eating, and self-injurious behavior. The degree to which rumination accounts for the ...