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A Social Anxiety Mobile-Based CBT Intervention for College Students and Therapi...

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a debilitating disorder marked by an intense anxiety and fear of negative evaluation in social situations. It has a significant negative impact on college students and college counselling services, which are usually responsible for helping students with mental health problems on campus, face an increasing demand, few resources and thus are often overloaded. Mobile interventions ...

Revisiting a taxonomy of social anxiety and assertiveness in adolescence: evide...

This research explored a taxonomy combining social anxiety and assertiveness and further applied a cognitive approach for predicting those constructs in adolescents. Participants were 679 adolescents (mean age = 16.68; 61.3% female) who self-reported on interpersonal assertive schemas, negative automatic social thoughts, social anxiety, and assertive behavior. Social anxiety and assertive behavior were grouping...

A Social Anxiety Mobile Intervention for College Students Attending Therapy: A ...

Social anxiety is significantly prevalent among college students and frequently leads to school dropout and academic underachievement. Since university counseling services are often overburdened, a mobile-based cognitive behavioral intervention was designed to support students attending therapy for social anxiety and therapists. Our main goals are to evaluate usability and acceptability of this technological sy...

The Soft Skills Inventory: Developmental procedures and psychometric analysis

When attending and participating in Higher Education, students face a multitude of personal, social, and work-related challenges, which may increase the risk of developing psychopathological symptomatology. To date, there is no instrument that grasps the non-technical skills that may help prepare students to respond to these challenges. This paper presents the development and psychometric properties of the Soft...

ERP correlates of error processing during performance on the HalsteadCategory Test

The Halstead Category Test (HCT) is a neuropsychological test that measures a person's ability to formulate and apply abstract principles. Performance must be adjusted based on feedback after each trial and errors are common until the underlying rules are discovered. Event-related potential (ERP) studies associated with the HCT are lacking. This paper demonstrates the use of amethodology inspired on Singular Sp...

Stress vulnerability and traumatic events in students