Dissociative processes in children and adolescents entail alterations in memory, identity, and perception that reflect and/or precipitate disconnects across biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral systems. Children of maltreatment survivors are at heightened risk for va…
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This study explored the impact of family environment on the relationship between stress and psychopathology in a sample of previously institutionalized, internationally adopted adolescents. Participants resided in a variety of institutional settings overseas before coming to liv…
High non-acceptance of emotion, or the rejection of one’s own emotional experience as bad or unacceptable, is consistently associated with depressive pathology, including elevated depressive symptoms and past and current major depressive (MDD) diagnoses. To progress toward a ful…
The evolution of major psychopathologies remains a point of intense debate within the scientific community. Counter to classical Darwinian perspectives, these disorders persist in human populations despite their high fitness costs (shorter lifespan and fewer surviving offspring …
This thesis examines aspects of adolescent family mealtimes and psychopathology among both non-clinical (adolescents and mothers of adolescents) and clinical (adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN)) samples. It contains seven studies employing quantitative methodology, which add…
Religion exerts a significant role in the lives of many individuals, including people suffering from psychiatric disorders. The need for the psychiatrist to be aware of the religious and spiritual beliefs have also been stressed, so that they can recognize the pathologic or alle…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD) are often chronic and debilitating conditions that can cause significant impairment in an individual’s personal, professional, and social life. However, research pertaining to posttraumatic stress responses among olde…
תסמונת דחק בתר-טראומטית נגרמת בעקבות חשיפה לגורם דחק אקוטי, בלתי נשלט ובלתי צפוי שעלול לגרום לפגיעה פסיכולוגית ותפקודית משמעותית. עם, המנגנונים הנוירוביולוגיים שעומדים מאחורי התסמונת אינם ברורים. על מנת להאיר מנגנונים אלה, נעשה שימוש במודלים שונים של התסמונת בבעלי חיים כמו טראומ…
Family stability is widely recognized as important for child adjustment, however, it has not been systematically examined in the literature. The limited discussion of family stability has occurred primarily in relation to significant, global or structural family events, such as …