James Gross, Ph.D. a-n-d Emotion Regulation
Approximately 3 years ago, I had the opportunity to listen to James Gross, Ph.D. at the annual conference of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science in Reno, Nevada. Dr. Gross, an emotion theorist and researcher in Stanford, has conducted multiple studies on...OCD: Do you have thoughts or images about harming yourself or others?
Aggressive obsessions are a type of Obsessive Compulsive disorder (OCD), and sometimes clinicians refer to it as Harm OCD. They are extremely distressing by nature, feel very uncomfortable, involve people you love the most (romantic partners, relatives, newborn...Values-based exposure group for Anxiety and its rationale
Over the last thirty years Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has demonstrated its effectiveness in the treatment of all anxiety disorders including specific phobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, & generalized...A moment of choice, behaviorally speaking…
Very often in my clinical work I’m face with moments in which I’m inviting my clients “to do” something different from what they usually do when dealing with their struggles; to develop an alternative behavioral repertoire to their pain. ...From traditional to contemporary exposure work
Over the last couple of months I wrote different posts about exposure and its current clinical applications: Exposure: What is it and why is it important?, (b) Values-based exposure: what is it? Why to do it?, Social phobia/anxiety and values-based exposure). Today, I...
