Tina Pittman Wagers

University of Colorado Boulder | CUB · Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Objectives Undergraduate and graduate students have reported rising rates of anxiety that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, possibly related to heightened intolerance of uncertainty. The present preregistered pilot study investigated whether psychoeducational wellness programs based on behavioral activation or mindfulness were associated w...

Background: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a nonatherosclerotic etiology of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) that primarily affects younger women with few traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate how younger age impacts the perception of care women receive in the emergency d...

Purpose: Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a nonatherosclerotic type of acute myocardial infarction that primarily affects young, healthy women without typical risk factors for heart disease. Few investigations have examined psychosocial variables in this population and none have looked at patient perceptions of the experience and s...

Working therapeutically with individuals or couples either following an affair or prior to its occurrence requires teaching them about risks to monogamy and the challenges of recovering from infidelity. Risks to monogamy include cultural myths about both infidelity and marriage that may be shared not only by lay persons, but also by their ill-infor...

Relationship betrayals, such as sexual and emotional infidelity, are commonly encountered in the practice of psychotherapy, yet clinicians often report difficulties in assessing and treating them. In this article we offer suggestions for assessing relationship betrayals. We address the definition of relationship betrayals, methods of assessing rela...

Infidelity has been hypothesized to be caused by any number of factors, including unhappy marriages. The current article explores the myths about infidelity and its treatment. Advice is offered to those treating affairs, and to those interested in successful marriages.

Examined the relation of beliefs and attitudes about collaborative practices to medical and mental health providers' training backgrounds, personal characteristics, and perceived characteristics of the organization in which they work. Among medical practitioners, younger providers reported greater belief in the effectiveness of psychosocial interve...

This single case study reports on the use of a hypnosis session in conjunction with on-going family therapy to eliminate fire-setting behavior in a 6 year old boy. The fire-setting behavior was of at least one year's duration and never occurred after the hypnotic intervention. Cautions about drawing conclusions from single case studies are detailed...

[states] that infidelity is a matter deserving of attention and treatment in couples therapy, rather than, as has been previously believed in mental health circles, a moral issue and not a mental health one, or, as believed in psychoanalytic circles, less important than sexual fantasies and best handled with secrecy myths about infidelity / hones...