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Depression and Anxiety During Pregnancy: Evaluating the Literature in Support of Clinical Risk-Benefit Decision-Making
Depression and anxiety during pregnancy are common, and patients and providers are faced with complex decisions regarding various treatment modalities. A structured discussion of the risks and benefits of options with the patient and her support team is recommended to facilitate the decision-making process. This clinically focused review, with emphasis on the last 3 years of published study data, evaluates the major risk categories of medication treatments, namely pregnancy loss, physical malformations, growth impairment, behavioral teratogenicity, and neonatal toxicity. Nonpharmacological treatment options, including neuromodulation and psychotherapy, are also briefly reviewed. Specific recommendations, drawn from the literature and the authors’ clinical experience, are also offered to help guide the clinician in decision-making.
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Cognitive Distortions and Suicide Attempts
Although theorists have posited that suicidal individuals are more likely than non-suicidal individuals to experience cognitive distortions, little empirical work has examined whether those who recently attempted suicide are more likely to engage in cognitive distortions than those who have not recently attempted suicide. In the present study, 111 participants who attempted suicide in the 30 days prior to participation and 57 psychiatric control participants completed measures of cognitive distortions, depression, and hopelessness. Findings support the hypothesis that individuals who recently attempted suicide are more likely than psychiatric controls to experience cognitive distortions, even when controlling for depression and hopelessness. Fortune telling was the only cognitive distortion uniquely associated with suicide attempt status. However, fortune telling was no longer significantly associated with suicide attempt status when controlling for hopelessness. Findings underscore the importance of directly targeting cognitive distortions when treating individuals at risk for suicide .
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Memory bias against threat in social phobia
Objectives. The present study examined whether social phobia is an anxiety disorder associated with a memory bias toward threat. Design. Social phobic (N = 16) and non‐anxious (N = 17) individuals were compared on their recall of evaluative threat and neutral prose passage content. Method. Participants were presented with two evaluative threat and two neutral prose passages and completed an immediate free recall task after each trial. Results. Contrary to expectation, individuals with social phobia recalled a smaller percentage of units from the evaluative threat passages than non‐anxious individuals. Conclusion. Consistent with the vigilance‐avoidance theory, it is suggested that social phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by the avoidance of elaborate processing of threatening material.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy for perinatal distress
\"Countless studies have established the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for many manifestations of depression and anxiety. In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Perinatal Distress, Wenzel and Kleiman discuss the benefits of CBT for pregnant and postpartum women who suffer from emotional distress. The myths of CBT as rigid and intrusive are shattered as the authors describe its flexible application for perinatal women. This text teaches practitioners how to successfully integrate CBT structure and strategy into a supportive approach in working with this population. The examples used in this book will be familiar to postpartum specialists, making this an easily comprehensive and useful resource. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mate Selection in Socially Anxious and Nonanxious Individuals
Evolutionary theorists propose that people's mate value influences the types of mates they select and their estimates of whether potential mates would select them. Social anxiety has the potential to be a characteristic that is associated with low perceived mate value and, therefore, to influence the mate selection process. In the present study, socially anxious (n = 63) and nonanxious (n = 62) participants were presented with a series of photographs and accompanying narrative descriptions of opposite sex individuals representing varying levels of physical attractiveness and social status. They were instructed to rate (a) the likelihood in which they would engage in various relationship and sexual behaviors with similar people, and (b) the likelihood in which similar people would want to engage in these relationship and sexual behaviors with them. Relative to nonanxious participants, socially anxious participants estimated that they would be less likely to initiate these behaviors with physically attractive people and more likely to initiate these behaviors with physically unattractive people. Moreover, they consistently estimated that others would be less likely to engage in these behaviors with them. These results raise the possibility that socially anxious individuals' low perception of their own mate value influences the partners with whom they enter into relationships. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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