Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease affecting rural populations in up to 36 countries in Africa. Sixty million people are at risk for the disease but surveillance is poor. An estimated 300,000 new cases occur each year with 100,000 deaths.…
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) affects up to one-third of Veterans, yet treatment utilization is low and relapse rates high among this group, posing a critical need to identify predictors of relapse. Understanding the role of cognitive functions in this process may yield improvement…
This thesis examines the problem of addiction as a biopsychosocial-spiritual archetypal disease and asks: What is an interactive, exciting, and robust intervention that can be used as a technique for relapse prevention? This thesis proposes an active imagination technique viewed…
There is currently no consensus on the definition of “relapse” in anorexia nervosa (AN). This study sought to extend recent theoretical work exploring relapse in AN by comparing eight theory-driven definitions of relapse constructs comprised of combinations of physical (i.e., we…