The Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) is a child self-report measure designed to evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panicagoraphobia, generalized anxiety and fears of physical injury. The results of confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses supported six factors consistent with the hypothesized diagnostic categories. There was...

Recent exploratory [Taylor, S., Kuch, K., Koch, W. J., Crockett, D. J., & Passey, G. (1998). The structure of posttraumatic stress symptons. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 107, 154±160.] and con®rmatory [Buckley, T. C., Blanchard, E. B., & Hickling, E. J. (1998). A con®rmatory factor analysis of posttraumatic stress symptons. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36, 1091±1099; King, D. W., Leskin, ...

Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (DBT) developed by M. Linehan is speci®cally designed for the outpatient treatment of chronically suicidal patients with borderline personality disorder. Research on DBT therapy, its course and its results has focused to date on treatments in an outpatient setting. Hypothesizing that the course of therapy could be accelerated an...

The ®eld of behavior therapy is not in touch with itself in terms of its overarching behaviorism. Many erroneously consider its basic behaviorism to have been radical behaviorism and continue to look to develop behavior therapy (including behavior analysis and behavioral assessment) within that framework. But that approach turns out to be much less than maximal because there is a more advanced,...

In the present study the structure of obsessive±compulsive phenomena in non-clinical adolescents was investigated by `The Padua Inventory' (PI). The PI is a self-report measure of obsessive and compulsive symptoms which is used in clinical and research settings. The use of PI in adolescents has been limited by the lack of normative data. Consequently, adolescent validation has both theoretical ...

Seyed Sina Sebtahmadi 1, Hanieh Borhan Azad 2, Didarul Islam 1, Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian 3, Ben Horan 3 and Saad Mekhilef 1,* 1 Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia; [email protected] (S.S.S.); [email protected] (D.I.) 2 School of Electrical Engineer...