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PLOS ONE
Background The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockd... more Background The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockdowns on mental health is inadequately understood. On the one hand such drastic changes in daily routines could be detrimental to mental health. On the other hand, it might not be experienced negatively, especially because the entire population was affected. Methods The aim of this study was to determine mental health outcomes during pandemic induced lockdowns and to examine known predictors of mental health outcomes. We therefore surveyed n = 9,565 people from 78 countries and 18 languages. Outcomes assessed were stress, depression, affect, and wellbeing. Predictors included country, sociodemographic factors, lockdown characteristics, social factors, and psychological factors. Results Results indicated that on average about 10% of the sample was languishing from low levels of mental health and about 50% had only moderate mental health. Importantly, three consistent predictors of mental h...
Acciones De Innovacion Y Mejora De Los Procesos De Aprendizaje 2013 Isbn 978 84 15538 04 2, 2013
Assessment, Jan 17, 2016
Psychological inflexibility (PI) refers to the overarching and nonadaptive avoidance of thoughts ... more Psychological inflexibility (PI) refers to the overarching and nonadaptive avoidance of thoughts and feelings. PI is a transdiagnostic process that is present in numerous psychopathologies, such as anxiety and mood disorders, addictive behaviors, and chronic pain, as presented by American adults and adolescents. Despite the high rates of depression and depressed mood among Spanish and Latino adolescents and the observed relation between PI and adjustment problems at this age, an instrument assessing PI in Spanish-speaking adolescents is lacking. In this study, we assessed the psychometric properties of a Spanish adaptation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth with 483 students from Spain (mean age 13.89 years). The Spanish Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth proved to be a two-factor psychometrically sound instrument. Total PI scores correlated positively with depression and negatively with satisfaction with life. The predictive validity results showed cognit...
Journal of Adolescence, 2014
This study investigated the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between percei... more This study investigated the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between perceived emotional intelligence and depressive symptoms in adolescence. A total of 661 high school Spanish students participated in the study. The analyses indicated that the effects of each of the perceived emotional intelligence sub-scales (namely, Attention, Clarity and Repair) on depressive symptomatology were partially mediated by perceived stress. Specifically, the mediating effect was negative for Clarity and Repair, but positive for attention. The analysis also showed that the direct effects were positive for all sub-scales. These results suggest that the promotion of stress management skills may be core in the development of prevention and treatment programs for depression in adolescents, and possibly more beneficial than the promotion of emotion regulation skills. Our findings, along with previous evidence, suggest that emotional attention, as measured in the present study, may be targeting a pathological type of attention.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2014
Although research on treatment precipitators for problem gambling is scarce, telephone surveys ha... more Although research on treatment precipitators for problem gambling is scarce, telephone surveys have consistently shown that financial and emotional problems resulting from problem gambling are the factors which recovered or active gamblers most frequently report as treatment precipitators. The present study sought to build on previous evidence by analyzing the demographic and gambling-related information provided by gamblers calling the helpline operated by the New Mexico Council on Problem Gambling and receiving a referral to private counseling. Specifically we examined the differences between the callers who initiated treatment with a private counselor after receiving the referral (n ϭ 223), and those who were likewise referred to counseling but did not attend the first appointment (n ϭ 231). The 2 groups could only be distinguished by the fact that the therapy-initiating group cited family or financial problems as the reason for calling the helpline. Further analyses revealed that helpline staff also had an influence on counseling initiation. These findings, along with other differences between groups call for further research on the most effective ways of targeting problem gamblers who call a helpline so as to facilitate their progression to the action stage of change.
The Psychological Record, 2016
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Papeles Del Psicologo, 2006
Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...
Edupsykhe Revista De Psicologia Y Psicopedagogia, 2006
La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) 1 ha sido expuesta en diferentes artículos en los últ... more La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) 1 ha sido expuesta en diferentes artículos en los últimos años. Bajo estos contenidos, el presente trabajo se adentra en la descripción de ACT como la terapia más completa de las denominadas de Tercera Generación o Contextuales . Se articula en varios apartados que incluyen: (1) parte de las condiciones en las que ACT emergió; ahondando en, (2) aspectos clave del lenguaje, de la condición humana, y las reglas que la cultura promueve, (3) la Teoría del Marco Relacional como marco de referencia esencial, (4) la Evi-ABSTRACT Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been widely described in the last ten years. Under such an umbrella, ACT will be presented as the most complete therapy of those included in the Third 1 Se mantiene el acrónimo procedente del inglés, ACT (de Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) que sirve en castellano, también, para resaltar la importancia de ACTUAR en una dirección. El acrónimo en castellano sería confuso y perdería el sentido original.
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 2002
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 2009
Enciclopedia De Educacion Infantil Vol 1 2003 Isbn 84 9700 136 2 Pags 337 370, 2003
The prevalence of panic disorder with and without agoraphobia as well as its personal and economi... more The prevalence of panic disorder with and without agoraphobia as well as its personal and economic impact is encouraging researchers and clinicians to improve the available psychological treatments. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder has yielded large size effects, still the literature on treatment outcomes (efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency) points out some inconclusive results which deserve further consideration. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is proving very useful in the treatment of a broad range of psychological problems, anxiety disorders included, although the empirical evidence for the latest is limited yet. In the present paper, we present a review of the basic research sustaining the use of ACT for anxiety disorders in general and panic disorder in particular. First, panic disorder is conceptualized as an instance of experiential avoidance. Then, the basic processes of change in ACT are analyzed, emphasizing those which have been studied in rel...
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
This study is a step forward in the difficult task of analyzing the transformation of functions v... more This study is a step forward in the difficult task of analyzing the transformation of functions via hierarchical relations. Eight participants underwent a computer task with five phases. During Phase 1, four stimuli were trained to become the following relational cues: INCLUDES, BELONGS TO, SAME, and DIFFERENT. In Phase 2, three equivalence classes were trained and tested (A1-B1-C1-D1; A2-B2-C2-D2; A3-B3-C3-D3). During Phase 3, inclusion relations were first established, by using the INCLUDES and BELONGS TO relational cues, between the to-be lower levels of the hierarchy, namely A1/B1, A2/B2, and A3/B3; and stimuli X.1, X.2, and Y.1, respectively. Then, the INCLUDES relational cue was used to establish inclusion relations between X.1/X.2 and X, and between Y.1 and Y, so that X and Y would become the most inclusive levels of two separate hierarchical networks. In Phase 4, X.1 was established as cold, D2 as heavy, and C3 as sweet. Lastly, in Phase 5 (Critical Test), seven stimuli from...
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
The aim of this preliminary research is to explore the effect of a brief protocol based on accept... more The aim of this preliminary research is to explore the effect of a brief protocol based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) applied to five adolescents (15-17 years old) with conduct disorder and impulsivity, who had received treatment for the last few years without positive results. Problematic behaviors were aggressive, impulsive, and oppositional reactions at school, home, and neighborhood (e.g., drugs or alcohol consumption, legal violations, oppositionist and defiant reactions, etc.). A brief ACT protocol was designed to functionally suit the presence of impulsivity and the absence of self-control repertory of these adolescents as well as the resistance to psychological treatment. The brief protocol was focused on four aspects: (a) to set a context between the therapist and the adolescents to promote the sense of personal responsibility, (b) to confront the adolescents with the effect of their behavior regulation (pros and cons) and the experience of creative hopelessnes...
PLOS ONE
Background The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockd... more Background The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockdowns on mental health is inadequately understood. On the one hand such drastic changes in daily routines could be detrimental to mental health. On the other hand, it might not be experienced negatively, especially because the entire population was affected. Methods The aim of this study was to determine mental health outcomes during pandemic induced lockdowns and to examine known predictors of mental health outcomes. We therefore surveyed n = 9,565 people from 78 countries and 18 languages. Outcomes assessed were stress, depression, affect, and wellbeing. Predictors included country, sociodemographic factors, lockdown characteristics, social factors, and psychological factors. Results Results indicated that on average about 10% of the sample was languishing from low levels of mental health and about 50% had only moderate mental health. Importantly, three consistent predictors of mental h...
Acciones De Innovacion Y Mejora De Los Procesos De Aprendizaje 2013 Isbn 978 84 15538 04 2, 2013
Assessment, Jan 17, 2016
Psychological inflexibility (PI) refers to the overarching and nonadaptive avoidance of thoughts ... more Psychological inflexibility (PI) refers to the overarching and nonadaptive avoidance of thoughts and feelings. PI is a transdiagnostic process that is present in numerous psychopathologies, such as anxiety and mood disorders, addictive behaviors, and chronic pain, as presented by American adults and adolescents. Despite the high rates of depression and depressed mood among Spanish and Latino adolescents and the observed relation between PI and adjustment problems at this age, an instrument assessing PI in Spanish-speaking adolescents is lacking. In this study, we assessed the psychometric properties of a Spanish adaptation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth with 483 students from Spain (mean age 13.89 years). The Spanish Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth proved to be a two-factor psychometrically sound instrument. Total PI scores correlated positively with depression and negatively with satisfaction with life. The predictive validity results showed cognit...
Journal of Adolescence, 2014
This study investigated the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between percei... more This study investigated the mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between perceived emotional intelligence and depressive symptoms in adolescence. A total of 661 high school Spanish students participated in the study. The analyses indicated that the effects of each of the perceived emotional intelligence sub-scales (namely, Attention, Clarity and Repair) on depressive symptomatology were partially mediated by perceived stress. Specifically, the mediating effect was negative for Clarity and Repair, but positive for attention. The analysis also showed that the direct effects were positive for all sub-scales. These results suggest that the promotion of stress management skills may be core in the development of prevention and treatment programs for depression in adolescents, and possibly more beneficial than the promotion of emotion regulation skills. Our findings, along with previous evidence, suggest that emotional attention, as measured in the present study, may be targeting a pathological type of attention.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2014
Although research on treatment precipitators for problem gambling is scarce, telephone surveys ha... more Although research on treatment precipitators for problem gambling is scarce, telephone surveys have consistently shown that financial and emotional problems resulting from problem gambling are the factors which recovered or active gamblers most frequently report as treatment precipitators. The present study sought to build on previous evidence by analyzing the demographic and gambling-related information provided by gamblers calling the helpline operated by the New Mexico Council on Problem Gambling and receiving a referral to private counseling. Specifically we examined the differences between the callers who initiated treatment with a private counselor after receiving the referral (n ϭ 223), and those who were likewise referred to counseling but did not attend the first appointment (n ϭ 231). The 2 groups could only be distinguished by the fact that the therapy-initiating group cited family or financial problems as the reason for calling the helpline. Further analyses revealed that helpline staff also had an influence on counseling initiation. These findings, along with other differences between groups call for further research on the most effective ways of targeting problem gamblers who call a helpline so as to facilitate their progression to the action stage of change.
The Psychological Record, 2016
Acceso de usuarios registrados. Acceso de usuarios registrados Usuario Contraseña. ...
Papeles Del Psicologo, 2006
Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Base de datos de artículos de revistas, ...
Edupsykhe Revista De Psicologia Y Psicopedagogia, 2006
La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) 1 ha sido expuesta en diferentes artículos en los últ... more La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT) 1 ha sido expuesta en diferentes artículos en los últimos años. Bajo estos contenidos, el presente trabajo se adentra en la descripción de ACT como la terapia más completa de las denominadas de Tercera Generación o Contextuales . Se articula en varios apartados que incluyen: (1) parte de las condiciones en las que ACT emergió; ahondando en, (2) aspectos clave del lenguaje, de la condición humana, y las reglas que la cultura promueve, (3) la Teoría del Marco Relacional como marco de referencia esencial, (4) la Evi-ABSTRACT Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been widely described in the last ten years. Under such an umbrella, ACT will be presented as the most complete therapy of those included in the Third 1 Se mantiene el acrónimo procedente del inglés, ACT (de Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) que sirve en castellano, también, para resaltar la importancia de ACTUAR en una dirección. El acrónimo en castellano sería confuso y perdería el sentido original.
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 2002
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 2009
Enciclopedia De Educacion Infantil Vol 1 2003 Isbn 84 9700 136 2 Pags 337 370, 2003
The prevalence of panic disorder with and without agoraphobia as well as its personal and economi... more The prevalence of panic disorder with and without agoraphobia as well as its personal and economic impact is encouraging researchers and clinicians to improve the available psychological treatments. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for panic disorder has yielded large size effects, still the literature on treatment outcomes (efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency) points out some inconclusive results which deserve further consideration. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is proving very useful in the treatment of a broad range of psychological problems, anxiety disorders included, although the empirical evidence for the latest is limited yet. In the present paper, we present a review of the basic research sustaining the use of ACT for anxiety disorders in general and panic disorder in particular. First, panic disorder is conceptualized as an instance of experiential avoidance. Then, the basic processes of change in ACT are analyzed, emphasizing those which have been studied in rel...
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
This study is a step forward in the difficult task of analyzing the transformation of functions v... more This study is a step forward in the difficult task of analyzing the transformation of functions via hierarchical relations. Eight participants underwent a computer task with five phases. During Phase 1, four stimuli were trained to become the following relational cues: INCLUDES, BELONGS TO, SAME, and DIFFERENT. In Phase 2, three equivalence classes were trained and tested (A1-B1-C1-D1; A2-B2-C2-D2; A3-B3-C3-D3). During Phase 3, inclusion relations were first established, by using the INCLUDES and BELONGS TO relational cues, between the to-be lower levels of the hierarchy, namely A1/B1, A2/B2, and A3/B3; and stimuli X.1, X.2, and Y.1, respectively. Then, the INCLUDES relational cue was used to establish inclusion relations between X.1/X.2 and X, and between Y.1 and Y, so that X and Y would become the most inclusive levels of two separate hierarchical networks. In Phase 4, X.1 was established as cold, D2 as heavy, and C3 as sweet. Lastly, in Phase 5 (Critical Test), seven stimuli from...
International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
The aim of this preliminary research is to explore the effect of a brief protocol based on accept... more The aim of this preliminary research is to explore the effect of a brief protocol based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) applied to five adolescents (15-17 years old) with conduct disorder and impulsivity, who had received treatment for the last few years without positive results. Problematic behaviors were aggressive, impulsive, and oppositional reactions at school, home, and neighborhood (e.g., drugs or alcohol consumption, legal violations, oppositionist and defiant reactions, etc.). A brief ACT protocol was designed to functionally suit the presence of impulsivity and the absence of self-control repertory of these adolescents as well as the resistance to psychological treatment. The brief protocol was focused on four aspects: (a) to set a context between the therapist and the adolescents to promote the sense of personal responsibility, (b) to confront the adolescents with the effect of their behavior regulation (pros and cons) and the experience of creative hopelessnes...