Keith S Dobson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3602206 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Keith S Dobson |
| NOMBRES | Keith S |
| APELLIDO | Dobson |
| FIRMA | DOBSON K S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9542-0822 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Improving the State of the Science in Global Training
Advanced professional skills and activities such as psychotherapy require training. However, models and methods for training practitioners to effectively deliver cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBTs) have not been clearly articulated and/or consistently applied. To address the need for global guidance in providing training in the CBTs, the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (WCCBT) recently put forward training guidelines…
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression
Rumination is a key feature of depression and contributes to its onset, maintenance, and recurrence. Researchers have proposed that biases in the attentional processing of emotional information may underlie rumination, and particularly, the brooding component. This investigation evaluated associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination, including both brooding and reflection, in currently and never depressed participan…
Social and self-stigma in a Canadian sample of people with the lived experience of a substance use and/or mental disorder
Shifting the Resilience Narrative
Resilience has been championed as important for mitigating stressors and challenges experienced by students during post-secondary education, as evidenced by the abundance of programs aimed at enhancing student resilience. Despite growing attention to resilience, there continues to be a lack of consensus about the definition or operationalization of the concept. Even less is known about how to foster resilience in the post-secondary context, espec…
Treatment of psychosocial risk factors in depression.
Coherence of attention and memory biases in currently and previously depressed women
Previous research has found that depression is characterised by biased processing of emotional information. Although most studies have examined cognitive biases in isolation, simultaneous examination of multiple biases is required to understand how they may interact and influence one another to produce depression vulnerability. In this study, the attention and memory biases of currently depressed, previously depressed, and never depressed women w…
Does self-focus orientation influence recall of autobiographical memories and subsequent mood in dysphoria
Past research suggests that depressed individuals are less likely than non-depressed individuals to engage in mood-incongruent recall in response to negative mood and do not experience associated mood reparative effects. The present study examined the effects of adopting a reflective versus ruminative self-focus orientation towards one's mood on the valence of autobiographical memories recalled following a negative mood induction and the extent o…
Myths and facts” campaigns are at best ineffective and may increase mental illness stigma
The Mediating Effects of Protective Behavioral Strategies on the Relationship between Addiction-Prone Personality Traits and Alcohol-Related Problems among Emerging Adults
Alcohol consumption and associated harms are an issue among emerging adults, and protective behavioral strategies (PBS) are actions with potential to minimize these harms. We conducted two studies aimed at determining whether the associations of at-risk personality traits (sensation-seeking [SS], impulsivity [IMP], hopelessness [HOP], and anxiety-sensitivity [AS]) with increased problematic alcohol use could be explained through these variables' …
Attentional biases in low-risk and high-risk gamblers and the moderating effect of daily psychosocial stress
Background and aims Psychosocial stress is associated with gambling urges and behavior. A large body of evidence also indicates that individuals who are at risk for disordered gambling are susceptible to attentional biases for gambling-related stimuli. Yet the extent to which psychosocial stress moderates these biases has not been fully investigated. The present study examined the effect of psychosocial stress on attentional biases for gambling s…
Mental Disorder Symptoms among Public Safety Personnel in Canada
BACKGROUND: Canadian public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., correctional workers, dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers) are exposed to potentially traumatic events as a function of their work. Such exposures contribute to the risk of developing clinically significant symptoms related to mental disorders. The current study was designed to provide estimates of mental disorder symptom frequencies and severities for Canadian PSP. METHO…
Betting to deal
Background and aims: Elevated impulsivity traits, particularly negative and positive urgency, have been identified as robust predictors of problem gambling. However, the mechanisms that link urgency to problem gambling remain unknown. The present research examined whether self-reported gambling motives (social, coping, enhancement, financial) mediated the association between urgency and problem gambling severity.Methods: The sample consisted of 5…
Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depression and Somatization Disorder
Scant research has investigated emotion regulation strategies in somatization disorder, despite its high comorbidity with depression and the growing interest in this topic in depression. The present study investigated emotion regulation strategies in patients with major depression and somatization disorder using clinical samples to examine common vulnerability factors and to provide evidence for difficulties in emotion regulation as transdiagnost…
Childhood adversity and adult depression
Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and strategies.
"Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a complex and evolving model of treatment that has been developed for and applied to a wide range of mental and physical problems and disorders. CBT's flexibility as a model can also make it a difficult technique to master. To be an effective cognitive behavioral therapist, the practitioner must be able to learn the broad principles related to CBT, and understand how to adapt those principles to his or her v…
Concepts and Methods of Cognitive Therapies
Toward an Integration of Interpersonal Risk Models of Depression and Cognitive‐Behaviour Therapy
Empirical research has increasingly focused on interpersonal variables associated with the development and maintenance of depression. This article outlines some key interpersonal risk factors for depression, including anxious attachment, sociotropy, excessive reassurance seeking, interpersonal stress generation, reduced social support, social skills deficits, and social avoidance. Recommendations are made for how cognitive‐behavioural therapy may…
A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Adult Depression, Alone and in Comparison with other Treatments
Risk factors in depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, affecting 14% of all people at some point in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men, but beyond gender there are a variety of risk factors that influence the prevalence and likelihood of experiencing depression. Here it consolidates research findings on risk factors into one source, for ease of reference for both researchers and clinicians in practice. The…
Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.
Antidepressant medication is considered the current standard for severe depression, and cognitive therapy is the most widely investigated psychosocial treatment for depression. However, not all patients want to take medication, and cognitive therapy has not demonstrated consistent efficacy across trials. Moreover, dismantling designs have suggested that behavioral components may account for the efficacy of cognitive therapy. The present study tes…
A psychometric evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory–II.
This article provides psychometric information on the second edition of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996), with respect to internal consistency, factorial validity, and gender differences. Both measures demonstrated high internal reliability in the full student sample. Significant differences between the mean BDI and BDI-II scores necessitated the development of new cutoffs for analogue research …
Towards a definition of the conceptual and empirical boundaries of cognitive therapy
This article reviews some of the recent conceptual and empirical developments in cognitive therapy. It is argued that one of the strengths of the cognitive therapy tradition has been its focus on the quantification of treatment effects, but that in recent years the development of theory and practice has surpassed the data necessary to provide a foundation for these developments. Potential reasons for rapid growth are cited, and some boundaries to…
The interactional model of anxiety
The interactional model of anxiety states that individuals who score high on trait anxiety measure for a specific situation dimension will respond with elevated state anxiety only in reaction to encounters with congruent situations. We tested this model by presenting subjects who scored high or low on ego threat, physical danger, novelty ambiguity, and daily routine trait measures with stressors representative of the four situation dimensions. Th…
Sources of differential stress response associated with psychometrically designated anxiety proneness
This research examined different aspects of the expression of psychometrically designated anxiety proneness related to dimensions of "ego threat" and "novelty ambiguity." In an ego-threatening situation, subjects were presented with abstract-reasoning items whose stress-relevant properties-item difficulty-had earlier been scaled among comparable samples. In the first study, comparisons focused on objective outcomes (records of task failure) as we…
Toward an Integration of Interpersonal Risk Models of Depression and Cognitive‐Behaviour Therapy
Empirical research has increasingly focused on interpersonal variables associated with the development and maintenance of depression. This article outlines some key interpersonal risk factors for depression, including anxious attachment, sociotropy, excessive reassurance seeking, interpersonal stress generation, reduced social support, social skills deficits, and social avoidance. Recommendations are made for how cognitive‐behavioural therapy may…
Towards a definition of the conceptual and empirical boundaries of cognitive therapy
This article reviews some of the recent conceptual and empirical developments in cognitive therapy. It is argued that one of the strengths of the cognitive therapy tradition has been its focus on the quantification of treatment effects, but that in recent years the development of theory and practice has surpassed the data necessary to provide a foundation for these developments. Potential reasons for rapid growth are cited, and some boundaries to…
The interactional model of anxiety
The interactional model of anxiety states that individuals who score high on trait anxiety measure for a specific situation dimension will respond with elevated state anxiety only in reaction to encounters with congruent situations. We tested this model by presenting subjects who scored high or low on ego threat, physical danger, novelty ambiguity, and daily routine trait measures with stressors representative of the four situation dimensions. Th…
Sources of differential stress response associated with psychometrically designated anxiety proneness
This research examined different aspects of the expression of psychometrically designated anxiety proneness related to dimensions of "ego threat" and "novelty ambiguity." In an ego-threatening situation, subjects were presented with abstract-reasoning items whose stress-relevant properties-item difficulty-had earlier been scaled among comparable samples. In the first study, comparisons focused on objective outcomes (records of task failure) as we…
The interactional model of anxiety
The interactional model of anxiety states that individuals who score high on trait anxiety measure for a specific situation dimension will respond with elevated state anxiety only in reaction to encounters with congruent situations. We tested this model by presenting subjects who scored high or low on ego threat, physical danger, novelty ambiguity, and daily routine trait measures with stressors representative of the four situation dimensions. Th…
Towards a definition of the conceptual and empirical boundaries of cognitive therapy
This article reviews some of the recent conceptual and empirical developments in cognitive therapy. It is argued that one of the strengths of the cognitive therapy tradition has been its focus on the quantification of treatment effects, but that in recent years the development of theory and practice has surpassed the data necessary to provide a foundation for these developments. Potential reasons for rapid growth are cited, and some boundaries to…
A psychometric evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory–II.
This article provides psychometric information on the second edition of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II; A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996), with respect to internal consistency, factorial validity, and gender differences. Both measures demonstrated high internal reliability in the full student sample. Significant differences between the mean BDI and BDI-II scores necessitated the development of new cutoffs for analogue research …
Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.
Antidepressant medication is considered the current standard for severe depression, and cognitive therapy is the most widely investigated psychosocial treatment for depression. However, not all patients want to take medication, and cognitive therapy has not demonstrated consistent efficacy across trials. Moreover, dismantling designs have suggested that behavioral components may account for the efficacy of cognitive therapy. The present study tes…
Risk factors in depression
Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders, affecting 14% of all people at some point in their lifetime. Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men, but beyond gender there are a variety of risk factors that influence the prevalence and likelihood of experiencing depression. Here it consolidates research findings on risk factors into one source, for ease of reference for both researchers and clinicians in practice. The…
A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Adult Depression, Alone and in Comparison with other Treatments
Toward an Integration of Interpersonal Risk Models of Depression and Cognitive‐Behaviour Therapy
Empirical research has increasingly focused on interpersonal variables associated with the development and maintenance of depression. This article outlines some key interpersonal risk factors for depression, including anxious attachment, sociotropy, excessive reassurance seeking, interpersonal stress generation, reduced social support, social skills deficits, and social avoidance. Recommendations are made for how cognitive‐behavioural therapy may…
Concepts and Methods of Cognitive Therapies
Cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and strategies.
"Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a complex and evolving model of treatment that has been developed for and applied to a wide range of mental and physical problems and disorders. CBT's flexibility as a model can also make it a difficult technique to master. To be an effective cognitive behavioral therapist, the practitioner must be able to learn the broad principles related to CBT, and understand how to adapt those principles to his or her v…
Childhood adversity and adult depression
Mental Disorder Symptoms among Public Safety Personnel in Canada
BACKGROUND: Canadian public safety personnel (PSP; e.g., correctional workers, dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers) are exposed to potentially traumatic events as a function of their work. Such exposures contribute to the risk of developing clinically significant symptoms related to mental disorders. The current study was designed to provide estimates of mental disorder symptom frequencies and severities for Canadian PSP. METHO…
Betting to deal
Background and aims: Elevated impulsivity traits, particularly negative and positive urgency, have been identified as robust predictors of problem gambling. However, the mechanisms that link urgency to problem gambling remain unknown. The present research examined whether self-reported gambling motives (social, coping, enhancement, financial) mediated the association between urgency and problem gambling severity.Methods: The sample consisted of 5…
Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depression and Somatization Disorder
Scant research has investigated emotion regulation strategies in somatization disorder, despite its high comorbidity with depression and the growing interest in this topic in depression. The present study investigated emotion regulation strategies in patients with major depression and somatization disorder using clinical samples to examine common vulnerability factors and to provide evidence for difficulties in emotion regulation as transdiagnost…
Attentional biases in low-risk and high-risk gamblers and the moderating effect of daily psychosocial stress
Background and aims Psychosocial stress is associated with gambling urges and behavior. A large body of evidence also indicates that individuals who are at risk for disordered gambling are susceptible to attentional biases for gambling-related stimuli. Yet the extent to which psychosocial stress moderates these biases has not been fully investigated. The present study examined the effect of psychosocial stress on attentional biases for gambling s…
Does self-focus orientation influence recall of autobiographical memories and subsequent mood in dysphoria
Past research suggests that depressed individuals are less likely than non-depressed individuals to engage in mood-incongruent recall in response to negative mood and do not experience associated mood reparative effects. The present study examined the effects of adopting a reflective versus ruminative self-focus orientation towards one's mood on the valence of autobiographical memories recalled following a negative mood induction and the extent o…
Myths and facts” campaigns are at best ineffective and may increase mental illness stigma
The Mediating Effects of Protective Behavioral Strategies on the Relationship between Addiction-Prone Personality Traits and Alcohol-Related Problems among Emerging Adults
Alcohol consumption and associated harms are an issue among emerging adults, and protective behavioral strategies (PBS) are actions with potential to minimize these harms. We conducted two studies aimed at determining whether the associations of at-risk personality traits (sensation-seeking [SS], impulsivity [IMP], hopelessness [HOP], and anxiety-sensitivity [AS]) with increased problematic alcohol use could be explained through these variables' …
Coherence of attention and memory biases in currently and previously depressed women
Previous research has found that depression is characterised by biased processing of emotional information. Although most studies have examined cognitive biases in isolation, simultaneous examination of multiple biases is required to understand how they may interact and influence one another to produce depression vulnerability. In this study, the attention and memory biases of currently depressed, previously depressed, and never depressed women w…
Treatment of psychosocial risk factors in depression.
Social and self-stigma in a Canadian sample of people with the lived experience of a substance use and/or mental disorder
Shifting the Resilience Narrative
Resilience has been championed as important for mitigating stressors and challenges experienced by students during post-secondary education, as evidenced by the abundance of programs aimed at enhancing student resilience. Despite growing attention to resilience, there continues to be a lack of consensus about the definition or operationalization of the concept. Even less is known about how to foster resilience in the post-secondary context, espec…
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression
Rumination is a key feature of depression and contributes to its onset, maintenance, and recurrence. Researchers have proposed that biases in the attentional processing of emotional information may underlie rumination, and particularly, the brooding component. This investigation evaluated associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination, including both brooding and reflection, in currently and never depressed participan…
Improving the State of the Science in Global Training
Advanced professional skills and activities such as psychotherapy require training. However, models and methods for training practitioners to effectively deliver cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBTs) have not been clearly articulated and/or consistently applied. To address the need for global guidance in providing training in the CBTs, the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (WCCBT) recently put forward training guidelines…
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