Damla E. Aksen

• Master of Science
• Binghamton University

This is the first book to analyze empirically supported treatments by using the newest criteria from the American Psychological Association's Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12. Clinicians, scholars, and students all need to stay updated on the treatment research, and this book goes beyond providing updated treatment information by pointin...

Psychotherapies have frequently incorporated mindfulness techniques as crucial components contributing to treatment protocols for impulsivity. However, no previous review has examined empirical research regarding the effectiveness of mindfulness interventions as a stand-alone treatment. This qualitative review of 15 articles investigates the extant...

Objectives The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is recognized as a mass traumatic event in which COVID-19-related stress (CS) can indicate other trauma- and/or stressor-related disorder. The facets of mindfulness (observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreacting) have been linked to reductions in stress-related symptoms and t...

When experiencing mental health challenges, we all deserve treatments that actually work. Whether you are a healthcare consumer, student, or mental health professional, this book will help you recognize implausible, ineffective, and even harmful therapy practices while also considering recent controversies. Research-supported interventions are iden...

In this chapter, we distill a large corpus of literature that Scott O. Lilienfeld produced with his colleagues on science vs. pseudoscience, distinguishing myths and misconceptions and fact and fiction in psychology, the virtues of evidence-based clinical practice, and adopting a scientific mindset and teaching scientific thinking skills in undergr...

Informed by the transtheoretical/transdiagnostic model (TTM) of dissociation, we tested the nomological network of dissociation by evaluating the unique relations among dissociation and its facets (i.e., depersonalization, amnesia, absorption, taxon) with variables pertinent to competing dissociation theories (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder [P...

The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) is associated with a myriad of constructs pertinent to cognitive and psychological functioning, including processing speed, working memory, attention/concentration, mathematical ability, and anxiety. Thus, practitioners may rely heavily on clinical judgment when interpreting PASAT performance. The pre...

Objective: Previous research has documented a strong association between emotion regulation (ER) and quality of life (QoL). Nevertheless, extant studies have not tested this association in participants meeting diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder nor accounted for other explanatory variables statistically. Our primary objective wa...

This entry surveys the applications of hypnosis in the field of health psychology. The review features qualitative reviews, meta‐analytic studies, and randomized controlled trials and documents the promise of hypnosis in treating many health‐related conditions. Hypnosis for pain control and modulation of distress is the best established of all appl...

We evaluated variables important to understanding dissociation ( N = 379 undergraduates). We investigated: (a) the correlations among dissociation and impulsivity, alexithymia, mindfulness, negative affect, neuroticism, sleep disturbances, and emotion dysregulation; (b) unique variance of these variables in statistically predicting dissociation sco...

In this chapter, we argue that we are constantly creating our experiences from the bedrock of spontaneous thoughts and mind wandering we engage in as much as half of our waking existence: We create and recreate ourselves and our realities in the moment, every moment. In many circumstances, including hypnosis, which is the focus of our discussion, w...

The authors summarize research findings, their clinical implications, and directions for future research derived from 40 years of study of hypnosis, hypnotic phenomena, and hypnotic responsiveness at Steven Jay Lynn’s Laboratory of Consciousness, Cognition, and Psychopathology and Joseph P. Green’s Laboratory of Hypnosis. We discuss (a) the accumul...

The Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory suggests that when individuals face life stressors, especially if they have poor self-esteem, they may rely on maladaptive coping behaviors that ease distress but worsen their condition over time. The present study compared five life stressors (health, money, work, family, romance) for their association with o...