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Book release: “Innovations in CBT for Childhood Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD”

Cambridge University Press just released a comprehensive book on new interventions for anxiety, OCD and PTSD, Edited by Lara J. Farrell, Griffith University, Queensland , Thomas H. Ollendick, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Peter Muris, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands. Anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are amongst the most prevalent disorders in childhood and cause major suffering and …

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The internet intervention Patient Adherence Scale (iiPAS) – Preprint available now!

Finally, I have submitted a manuscript that I have been working on for quite a while together with my dear colleagues at CAP Research Centre and the Karolinska. We have developed and evaluated a scale to measure patient adherence in internet-delivered behavioral interventions, meaning a way of measuring how well a patient engages with an …

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New research: Sudden gains in internet CBT for OCD

A new study from the Karolinska Institutet shows that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who show "sudden gains" during internet CBT treatment yield better treatment effects, comparted to those who did not have sudden gains, or where "gradual gainers". A sudden gain is a significant, large improvement of the patients' symptoms that happens during a short …

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