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Impacting on factors promoting intra-group aggression in secure psychiatric settings

Heliyon, 2019
Three preliminary and linked studies investigate the impact of making alterations to factors considered relevant to engaging in and experiencing intra-group aggression (bullying) among adult male patients detained in a single secure forensic hospital ...
J.L. Ireland, I. Sebalo, K. McNeill, K. Murphy, G. Brewer, C.A. Ireland, S. Chu, M. Lewis, L. Greenwood, T. Nally   +9 more
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Medical Humanities & Clinical Psychology

Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2020
The aim of the last MJCP editorials was to establish a bridge between scientific research, teaching and public engagement in accordance with the production of the Journal, which is one of the activities of the University of Messina.
Salvatore Settineri, Emanuele Maria Merlo   +1 more
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Mindfulness-based training with transcranial direct current stimulation modulates neuronal resource allocation in working memory: A randomized pilot study with a nonequivalent control group

Heliyon, 2018
Mindfulness-based training (MBT) and transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) methods such as direct current stimulation (tDCS) have demonstrated promise for the augmentation of cognitive abilities.
Michael A. Hunter, Gregory Lieberman, Brian A. Coffman, Michael C. Trumbo, Mikaela L. Armenta, Charles S.H. Robinson, Matthew A. Bezdek, Anthony J. O'Sickey, Aaron P. Jones, Victoria Romero, Seth Elkin-Frankston, Sean Gaurino, Leonard Eusebi, Eric H. Schumacher, Katie Witkiewitz, Vincent P. Clark   +15 more
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The Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a predictor of dropout from residential substance use disorder treatment

Heliyon, 2019
Background: Cognitive function is a challenge for many SUD patients, and residential SUD treatment is cognitively demanding. Treatment retention is a predictor for success in SUD treatment, and the literature links low cognitive function to increased ...
Mikael Sømhovd, Egon Hagen, Tone Bergly, Espen Ajo Arnevik   +3 more
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A brief measure to predict exercise behavior: the Archer-Garcia Ratio

Heliyon, 2017
Background: Different forms of conscious and planned physical exercise and activity that individuals perform improve not only physical but also psychological health, well-being, and both physical and intellectual performance. Here we put forward and test
Danilo Garcia, Thiago Medeiros da Costa Daniele, Trevor Archer   +2 more
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IRT analyses of the Swedish Dark Triad Dirty Dozen

Heliyon, 2018
Background: The Dark Triad (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) can be captured quickly with 12 items using the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (Jonason and Webster, 2010). Previous Item Response Theory (IRT) analyses of the original English Dark
Danilo Garcia, Björn N. Persson, Ali Al Nima, Joel Gruneau Brulin, Max Rapp-Ricciardi, Petri J. Kajonius   +5 more
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Youth perception of self and ideal self through drawings: association between perception and weight status

Heliyon, 2018
Context: The body image research literature has addressed how young people perceive their self-image thoroughly. Seldom however were youths asked to draw their current vs.
Maryam Trebeau Crogman
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Impulsivity issues in borderline personality disorder and it's links with insight: the role of urgency

Heliyon, 2019
Objective: Impulsivity plays a major role in a wide range of disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder. Another crucial clinical dimension is insight. This clinical dimension is linked with symptomatology and treatment issue.
Sylvia Martin, Jonathan Del-Monte, Pierluigi Graziani   +2 more
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Current issues and Clinical Psychology

Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2021
Dear readers, the present is above all a thanksgiving to who directly or indirectly participate in the life of the Journal, including Authors and the Editorial Team. In this editorial there are three considerations on Clinical Psychology.
Salvatore Settineri
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Behavioural flexibility of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder on a card-sorting task with varying task difficulty

Heliyon, 2018
Inflexibility is taken to be a key characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), although it is unclear which aspect of cognitive functioning is critical in this context. The current study investigated task-switching problems and inflexibility with a
Phil Reed
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