This study examined the generalization of behavioral marital therapy (BMT) and enhanced behavioral marital therapy (EBMT), which added cognitive restructuring, affect exploration, and generalization training to BMT. Couples' communication and cognitions were assessed in the clinic and at home. Both BMT and EBMT were effective in decreasing negative communication behaviors and cognition across s...

ClockWorks is a programming environment supporting the visual programming of object-oriented software architectures. In developing ClockWorks, we used user interface evaluation techniques, including heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough and user evaluation. The development of ClockWorks was based on a task analysis of ClockWorks programmers. This task analysis revealed that programmers wo...

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...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Writing Therapy (CBWT) in 23 children (age 8-18 years) in the Netherlands, who experienced a range of single and recurrent traumatic experiences. CBWT uses exposure, cognitive restructuring and social sharing. METHODS At pre-test, post-test and follow-up, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, depressive sympto...

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. C...

notions involving the general purpose and meaning of the person 's existence. Such threats to the assumptive world are accompanied by significant levels of psychological distress. Extending our seismic metaphor, cognitive processing and restructuring may be comparable to the physical rebuilding that occurs after an earthquake. The physical structures can be designed to be more resistant to shoc...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects 2.6% of the population in Mexico, severely affecting the quality of life of the people who suffer it. The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks OCD as the tenth leading cause of disability in the world, representing a health issue that requires attention, especially from health professionals. Several studies on the different treatments developed for t...

WordNet is an electronic lexical database structured around psychological and linguistic principles. As such, it should play a part in any e ort to integrate cognitive factors into knowledge based systems. Yet, some of its basic assumptions have been attacked, and the suggestion made that a major restructuring would make it more cognitively transparent. We investigate these allegations from a p...

This review examines the major cognitive/social approaches to reducing reactive aggression and their interdependency on neural mechanisms associated with arousal. According to psychological theory, physiological arousal serves as a nonspecific energizer of cognitively defined emotions. Physiological models emphasize a bottom-up approach, many higher cortical functions serve to reduce heightened...

1 This work was partially supported by NSF grant #CCR-9803876 Abstract In this paper, we describe restructuring of C code into new C++ classes. Such restructuring is done to facilitate both software reuse and software evolution. The restructuring is accomplished by restructuring tools and scenarios. We discuss the transformation tool-set and the design of the individual tools. The approach is d...