In honor of the life and work Aaron T. Beck, this paper describes application cognitive therapy to management marginalization stress among minoritized communities. Collaborative empiricism, restructuring, behavioral interventions are highlighted as being particularly useful in a contemporary multicultural approach for anxiety, depression, stress, other sequelae due stigmatized identity. Althoug...

This article presents the Schema Therapy (Young, Klosko, & Weishaar, 2003) approach to the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Schema therapy draws on the cognitive-behavioral, attachment, psychodynamic, and emotion-focused traditions and conceptualizes patients who have borderline personality disorder as being under the sway of five modes or aspects of the self. The goal of the thera...

This research represents the first controlled treatment study of hypnosis and cognitive- behavioral therapy (CBT) of acute stress disorder (ASD). Civilian trauma survivors (N=87) who met criteria for ASD were randomly allocated to 6 sessions of CBT, CBT combined with hypnosis (CBT-hypnosis), or supportive counseling (SC). CBT comprised exposure, cognitive restructuring, and anxiety management. ...

12 clients suffering from chronic tics participated in one of two treatment programs, either a behavioral group using competing response therapy or a group using Beck-style cognitive restructuring. A repertory grid based upon the personal construct psychology of George Kelly was administered to all clients before and after treatment. The grid comprised a set of elements made up of situations wi...

Organizational restructurings are commonplace, put in place by many senior management teams as part of a wider strategic change to create alignment between ways of working and a new strategic intent. Yet we know little about how these restructurings are implemented and delivered by the middle managers often charged with making the senior manager blueprints a reality. This paper argues that for ...

Intervention Women were allocated to CCSP (n = 52) or no CCSP (n = 58). CCSP consisted of preparatory information to increase control; cognitive restructuring, including positive coping statements and avoidance of catastrophising; and relaxation with guided imagery. A clinical social worker taught the CCSP intervention >2 weeks before hospital admission for chemotherapy and ABMT. The CCSP group...

Loop transformation and array restructuring are important compiler optimizations that improve memory locality in complementary ways. Although previous researchers have proposed integrating the two techniques, there exists no analytical framework for determining how best to combine them for a given program. In this paper, we propose a cost model for choosing between all combinations of loop and ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Increasingly, academic hospitals have adopted hospitalist-based systems of inpatient pediatric care. Some studies comparing hospitalists with other attending physicians have suggested trainees are more satisfied with education from hospitalists. However, there are published concerns that the increased presence of hospitalists may reduce residents' autonomy. The objectiv...

This paper deals with a special hold-up problem in privatization. Since the enterprise, which is to be privatized, has to be restructured in a situation of uncertainty and the restructuring investments are sunk when the final decision on the sale price is taken in renegotiations, there is an imminent danger that restructuring is not done on an efficient scale, and there is underinvestment. We c...

Intervention 30 weeks of trauma-focused group psychotherapy, delivered weekly in groups comprising 6 people, plus 5 booster sessions at monthly intervals, versus control intervention of present-centred comparison treatment. In the trauma focused therapy group, each participant received 2 sessions dedicated to their own trauma; and had to listen to an audiotape of these sessions at least 8 times...