There is debate as to whether phase-based treatment approaches add value beyond standard trauma-focused treatment protocols for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This systematic review examined the efficacy of phase-based treatments for adults with childhood trauma.

Epilepsy is associated with increased schizophrenia risk, but few large studies account for key factors. This study analyzed cohort data from Korea to assess schizophrenia risk postepilepsy diagnosis.

Sexual violence is a major public health issue associated with poorer mental health and greater alcohol use problems. Limited work has examined the underlying constructs that may help explain risk for these outcomes among those with a history of sexual violence and probable posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who engage in hazardous drinking (heightened alcohol consumption that increases risk for negative consequences).

Social exclusion affects patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) both because of a fundamental disposition to introversion and through social discrimination. Here, we explore the emotional and cardiac autonomic responses to ostracism using a ball-tossing experiment.

Smoking is a known risk factor for dementia, but the effects of changes in smoking behavior after a depression diagnosis remain unclear.

The DSM has made advances in helping clinicians address cultural factors important in psychiatric care, including the acknowledgement of religious and spiritual problems that impact a patient's mental health. However, moral problems have been under-recognized as a culturally contextualized source of negative consequences for occupational, social, and other areas of functioning.

This study examined the relationship between childhood trauma, alexithymia, and theory of mind (ToM) skills in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

This study explores the correlation between immune inflammation and Alzheimer's disease (AD), focusing on immune-brain interactions impacting neurodevelopment and function.

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) represents a relevant public health concern, with lifetime prevalence being high in community samples. The present study aimed to examine the latent associations between the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) superspectra and NSSI frequency and motivation.

Despite knowledge that generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is associated with increased risk for cannabis use, factors contributing to the co-occurrence of GAD and cannabis use remain understudied. The current study evaluated the contributions of anxiety sensitivity (AS) and intolerance of uncertainty (IU) in terms of cannabis use and coping motives for use in individuals with clinically elevated worry.

The prevalence of PTSD in individuals who suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injury (SCI) following road traffic accidents (RTAs) has not been comprehensively reviewed.

This study examined adult psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension before admission who then had these diagnoses missing from discharge records.

We sought to examine the relationship between pastime activities (i.e., activity engagement), social connectedness with family and friends, and severity of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) symptoms across younger, middle-aged, and older adults.

This study aims to compare the quality of life and past suicide attempts of bipolar disorder (BD) patients with social media (SM) use. The study included 100 BD patients. All participants underwent assessments using the Functional Assessment Short Test (FAST), Social Media Use Disorder Scale (SMDS), and 36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36). Past suicidal behaviors were also noted. FAST scores in the SM group were significantly ( p <0.05) lower than those not using SM. The SF-36 scores in the group using SM were significantly higher ( p <0.05) than those not using SM. Previous suicide attempts did not affect SM usage. When considering the more frequent utilization of SM among patients with a history of suicide attempts, encouraging these patients to follow productive content in SM could be a way to reintegrate them into life.

Prodromal psychotic symptoms have been increasingly linked to childhood maltreatment, attachment insecurity, and alexithymia, particularly difficulties in identifying and expressing emotions.

Discrepancies persist regarding burnout-depression-anxiety relationships in health care workers (HCWs), hindering interventions. This cross-sectional study developed a symptom-level network model to clarify their interconnections.

The paper presents reference values for the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R) and population-based lifetime and 12-month prevalences on suicide related thoughts and behaviors (STBs).

Prior research indicated intergenerational transmission of substance use behaviors via genetic mechanisms. However, there remain gaps in our understanding of these processes. There is a dearth of research examining parental drug use as a predictor of offspring illicit opioid use among justice-involved youth and age-graded effects.

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain and psychiatric comorbidities, but robust comparative data remain limited.

We report a cross-sectional study pursuing the sources of information that lead individuals to judge that they had burnout.

Schizotypy, a trait vulnerability for psychotic disorders, is linked to social functioning deficits. Emotional contagion (the transfer of emotion between individuals) and emotional mimicry (the imitation of emotional expression) are key to social interactions but remain understudied in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. This study examined schizotypy's influence on these processes while controlling for depression.

Early-life trauma is associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in young adulthood; although factors that contribute to PTSS are unclear, one factor may be Intolerance of uncertainty. In adults, trauma exposure may enhance IU and in turn, contribute to PTSS. Few studies have explored these associations in youth or considered the role of trauma type. This study examined these associations in a cohort of youth (ages 18-19) with varying trauma histories.

This brief report describes a limited meta-analysis of controlled studies evaluating critical time intervention (CTI) on select clinical and psychosocial outcomes. Outcome data on 14 domains and 3 broad indices across 8 experimental and quasi-experimental studies were analyzed.

This study aims to examine (a) the mediating role of cultural intelligence, (b) the moderating role of previous psychological treatment in the relationship between interpersonal mindfulness and mental illness microaggressions, (c) the predictive effects of cultural intelligence, interpersonal mindfulness, and previous psychological treatment on mental illness microaggressions.

The goal of this study was to adapt an anxiety sensitivity intervention for mobile health delivery to perinatal populations experiencing economic marginalization.

The purpose of this article is to provide conceptual, technical, and practical explanations for why a single instrument can serve as a multi-purpose measure of grief. Our thesis is based on a conceptualization of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) as persistent, intense grief. We show how grief severity (i.e., a dimensional component) and persistence of intense grief based on the amount of time that has elapsed since the death (i.e., a temporal component) permit a reliable and accurate method for distinguishing pathological grief (i.e., PGD) from nonpathological grief. In principle, any instrument that assesses these basic dimensional and temporal aspects of grief adequately will suffice to assess grief and PGD. Psychiatric measurement tools can be adapted to fit essentially all applications aimed at assessing grief, both pathological and not.

Shared language erosion (SLE) may contribute to anxiety in Hispanic immigrant youth by increasing stress and parent-youth conflict. This study examined the relationship between SLE and anxiety, considering parent-youth conflict and youth perceived stress as possible mediating factors.

People with serious mental illness (SMI) are often troubled by societal stigma and subsequent processes, including self-stigma and lowered self-efficacy. Previous studies have observed the interrelationship among social stigma, general self-efficacy, psychiatric symptom severity, and self-stigma. Yet, it is warranted to examine the processes through which social stigma can hamper self-efficacy. This cross-sectional cohort study aimed to examine symptom severity and self-stigma as potential mediating factors between societal stigma and general self-efficacy. Three hundred working-age adults with self-reported SMI completed a Qualtrics survey that consists of measures of interested variables. Serial mediation analyses were used to examine the relationship. Symptom severity and self-stigma fully mediate the relationship between societal stigma and general self-efficacy. The implications of these results are that mental health professionals can target self-stigma and symptom severity to mitigate the negative effects of social prejudice and discrimination on general self-efficacy.

Enhanced motivational sensitivity to reward is associated with several psychiatric conditions, including prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Although reasons for this association remain unclear, it is possible that individuals higher in reward sensitivity are more prone to yearning for a lost loved one, especially if they have difficulty reengaging in new life goals. We sought to examine this hypothesis in a cross-sectional cohort of 274 adults recruited online who reported a lifetime history of surviving at least one sudden death loss. Motivational sensitivity to reward was associated with more severe yearning, particularly among individuals who have difficulty reengaging in new life goals. This pattern of associations was specific to individuals with more severe PGD symptoms. Findings support previous research suggesting that reward sensitivity may play an important role in the pathogenesis of PGD and highlight potentially important intervention targets in at-risk bereaved populations.

Despite rising rates of cannabis use across the United States, and in psychiatric populations especially, relatively limited attention has been paid to rates of cannabis use in individuals with body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) such as trichotillomania and skin picking disorder. Using data from an online survey, we collected rates of past-year cannabis use among individuals with BFRBs and investigated whether cannabis use is associated with the clinical presentation of trichotillomania and/or skin picking disorder. We found that approximately 33% of individuals reported past-year cannabis use. Additionally, past-year cannabis use was associated with more days per week spent pulling or picking, and in the case of trichotillomania, cannabis use was associated with heightened distress due to the BFRB. These findings highlight the need for research to more fully investigate cannabis use in the BFRB population and its relationship to disorder symptomatology.