Cardos Roxana

Babeș-Bolyai University | UBB · Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Background Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) imposes significant burdens on individuals, families, and healthcare systems and the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have exacerbated OCD symptoms. Currently, there are no validated prevention programs for OCD, highlighting a critical gap in mental health services. This study aims to develop and validate...

Objective: This paper aimed to examine the validity of the death anxiety psychopathological and psychological health models of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). We investigated whether irrational and rational beliefs were associated with death anxiety and if there are possible significant positive correlations between death anxiety and depr...

In this comprehensive study of 15 deceased patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, spanning a time frame of 1 to 68 days from confirmation to death, autopsies were meticulously conducted with stringent safety measures. Clinical, laboratory, histopathological, and molecular analyses were integrated, shedding light on diverse pulmonary lesions,...

This paper sought to investigate the validity of a mediation model, where we hypothesized that the four irrational evaluations postulated by the Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) theory (demandingness, awfulizing, low frustration tolerance, and global evaluation) would mediate the relationship between perceived risk of war and death anxiety....

Although evidence-based interventions exist, estimates suggest that about 60% percent of children and adolescents with mental health disorders do not receive the treatment they need. In this context, one expanding strategy for increasing access to mental health care for children and adolescents is the use therapeutic, or serious, games. REThink is...

Background: Trait boredom is associated with several internalizing and externalizing problems. Addressing existing research gaps in the field, the present study investigated the map of cognitive processes for boredom, based on the rational emotive behaviour therapy model (REBT). Aims: The general aim of the study was to investigate the organizatio...

Background Children and adolescents are major computer and technology gadget users. While serious games hold important promises for promoting health-related behavioral change and mental health among children and adolescents, their efficacy is yet unclear.Objectives We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to offer a comprehensive pi...

The application of technology in rational emotive-behavior therapy (REBT) represents a new and innovative line of research and practice with children and adolescents. The aim of this chapter is to describe the advances in the technological applications of REBT and to illustrate some of the evidence-based technological tools that have been developed...

Albert Ellis pioneered the application of cognitive methods in parent education programs in the mid-1950s. Albert Ellis was interested in applying Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) with children, by working directly with children, or indirectly, by working with parents (Bernard, Ellis, & Terjesen, 2006). From the early 1960s with the publica...

The mechanisms of change are rarely investigated in the field of gamified interventions for preventing emotional disorders in children and adolescents despite the wide recognition for the advantages they offer as prevention tool. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the mechanisms of change of a therapeutic game (REThink), spe...

Therapeutic games represent a promising solution for addressing emotional difficulties in youths. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of the REThink game, in helping children and adolescents, to develop psychological resilience. Therefore, 165 children aged between 10 and 16 years were randomly assigned in one of the t...

Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) emphasizes the role of irrational beliefs as causes of emotional disturbance (i.e., dysfunctional emotions, like depression). REBT relies on the ABC model (Ellis, 1994), where the activating event (A) is further interpreted in a rational or irrational manner (B), thus leading to functional or dysfunctional e...

This chapter focuses on evidence-based, positive parenting practices and contributions of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT; Ellis, 1962) to the practice of parenting coaching. The process of parenting coaching is focused on the present, with the aim of promoting child and parent adjustment, and makes use of RE-CB coaching techniques to help...

Introduction: Children and adolescents’ ability to effectively identify and understand emotions is an important aspect of development that has been linked to a variety of beneficial outcomes (e.g., better mental health, social skills and academic performance; Sprung, Münch, Harris, Ebesutani, & Hofmann, 2015). According to the binary model of distr...

Stereotype Content Model (SCM) emphasizes the content rather than the underlying processes of the stereotypes and the content might be influenced by several cultural dimensions (e.g., individualism vs. collectivism). The main dimensions of SCM, - namely warmth and competence-, underlying various contents, are assumed to be universal. However, from...

Background: Smartphones and mobile devices have become ubiquitous, and with the rapid advance of technology, the number of health applications (apps) that are available for consumers on these devices is constantly growing. In particular, there has been a recent proliferation of anxiety apps. However, there has been no review of the quality or cont...

Flight anxiety and the fear-related avoidance draw serious personal and financial negative consequences. Although classical exposure techniques for flight anxiety are widely used, they involve significant limits. Efforts to develop the benefits and access to evidence-based psychotherapies have led to a new method of delivering exposure technique, n...

Background: Core needle biopsy is a reliable diagnostic test for breast cancer. Although this procedure is a reliable diagnosis tool that can improve chances of successful treatment and survival, it can be associated with pain and anxiety. In this context, a mobile health intervention (BIO H-App) has been developed to address patients’ symptoms of...

Children and adolescents’ ability to effectively understand their own emotions is an important aspect of their development, related with a variety of beneficial outcomes (e.g. better mental health, social skills, and academic performance). Although there are effective programs for developing emotional skills of young people, their implementation is...

Introduction: Rational and irrational beliefs (RBs/IBs) are key constructs that underlie coaching interventions aimed to promote better emotion regulation, respectively decrease emotional difficulties, within a Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy/Coaching (REBT/REBC) framework. In this context, coaching children and adolescents’ skills for identifyin...

This exploratory study investigated the relationship between spirituality, religiousness and work values using a sample of N= 122 participants. Nonparametric partial correlation revealed that intrinsic religiousness was positively correlated with cognitive work values, extrinisic personal religiousness was negatively correlated with affective work...