Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), learning disability (LD) and others, may result in serious delay or irregularity in …

With worry being a widespread problem in young adults (Pereira et al., 2019 ), the present study focused on worry-prone young adults between 18 and 25 years old. The predictors we examined were attentional control (assessed using the Emotional …

Anxiety and mood disorders, also known as internalizing disorders, are among the most common mental disorders and leading contributors to the burden of disability worldwide (Greenberg et al., 1999 , 2015 ; Konnopka & K¨onig, 2020 ). Internalizing …

The Hopelessness Theory of Depression (Abramson et al., 1989 ) proposes that individual differences in attributions about negative life events render some people more vulnerable to developing depression. Following a diathesis stress model, the …

Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is characterised by an intense fear of negative social evaluation (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ). It commonly emerges during childhood or adolescence and is associated with academic and occupational …

Internet-delivered treatments can address such barriers by increasing the availability and accessibility of evidence-based care (Edge et al., 2023 ; Taylor et al., 2021 ). Self-guided digital interventions are cost-effective and scalable, making …

People who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) tend to hold negative beliefs about themselves, others, and the world. In different theoretical models of PTSD, negative trauma-related cognitions about the trauma and its sequala have …

Young adults are at increased susceptibility to the onset of mental health disorders, with the prevalence of anxiety-related, depression-related and substance-use related disorders, ranked among the top 20 disabilities experienced within this age …

Elevated metacognitions have been identified across a variety of psychological conditions and problem behaviours (Normann & Morina 2018 ; Wells 2019 ). Metacognition can be described as any knowledge or cognitive processes involved in the control …

The current study is a secondary analysis from a mindfulness-based EMI (Pavlacic et al., 2022a ; Pavlacic et al., 2022b ) that examined the utility and effectiveness of delivering mindfulness-based messages to participants in real time. For …

Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMS) represent relatively stable constructs in memory containing cognitive and emotional representations of the self (Young & Brown, 1994 ; Young et al., 2003 ). EMSs are generally considered an adaptation of Beck’s …

Chronic pain is the pain and discomfort that lasts or recurs for over three months, which has become a significant global public health concern, impacting roughly 20% of adults (de C Williams et al., 2020). Pain is a complex physio-psychological …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common and debilitating condition with a lifetime prevalence of approximately 6% for adults living in the United States (Goldstein et al., 2016 ). While individual presentations vary, the disorder is …

Anxiety is the most prevalent mental health concern worldwide, with approximately 301 million people experiencing an anxiety related condition in 2019 alone (World Health Organisation, 2023 ). Not all experiences of anxiety are maladaptive, often …

A recent randomized controlled trial, comparing cognitive behavioral group therapy (CBGT), psychodrama (PD), and their integration (CBPT) for patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD), found that all treatments were superior to the waiting list …

Persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) are a central problem in various medical disciplines (Leiknes et al., 2007 ). Back pain, headache, gastrointestinal symptoms and fatigue are among the most frequently reported symptoms in primary care settings of …