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2021
	40 65 163 Emotional Reasoning and Psychopathology Amelia Gangemi, Margherita Dahò, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: One of the several ways in which affect may influence cognition is when people use affect as a source of information about external events. Emotional reasoning, ex-consequentia reasoning, and affect-as-information are terms referring to the mechanism that can lead people to take their emotions as information about the external world, even when the emotion is not generated by the situation to be evaluated. ... Journal Article: Brain Sciences, 11 (4), 2021. Tag: emotion; beliefs; emotional reasoning; affect-as-information; psychopathology; anxiety; guilt; obsessive-compulsive disorder; anxiety disorders; depression; personality disorders
	40 65 78 Differential diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder: Self‐concept, identity and self‐esteem Livia Wright, Lisa Lari, Stefania Iazzetta, Marco Saettoni, Andrea Gragnani ABSTRACT: Symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD) often overlap. In some cases, it is difficult to conduct a differential diagnosis based only on current diagnostic criteria Therefore, it is important to find clinical factors with high discriminatory specificity that, used together with structured or semi‐structured interviews, could help improve diagnostic practice. We propose that a ... Journal Article: Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 1 (36), 2021. Tag: ipolar disorder borderline personality disorder differential diagnosis identity self‐concept self‐esteem
	40 65 97 Comparison of Cerebellar Grey Matter Alterations in Bipolar and Cerebellar Patients: Evidence from Voxel-Based Analysis Michela Lupo, Giusy Olivito, Andrea Gragnani, Marco Saettoni, Libera Siciliano, Corinna Pancheri, Matteo Panfili, Marco Bozzali, Roberto Delle Chiaie, Maria Leggio ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to compare the patterns of cerebellar alterations associated with bipolar disease with those induced by the presence of cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies to clarify the potential cerebellar contribution to bipolar affective disturbance. Twenty-nine patients affected by bipolar disorder, 32 subjects affected by cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies, and 37 age-matched healthy ... Journal Article: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22 (7), 2021. Tag: cerebellar atrophy; bipolar disorder; voxel-based morphometry; cerebellar grey matter volume
	40 65 210 SLEEP CHARACTERISTICS IN ITALIAN CHILDREN DURING HOME CONFINEMENT DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK Valeria Bacaro, Marco Chiabudini, Carlo Buonanno, Paola De Bartolo, Dieter Riemann, Francesco Mancini, Chiara Baglioni ABSTRACT: Objective: Italy faced one of the first large clusters of COVID-19 infections worldwide. Home confinement and social distancing could have negatively impacted sleep habits and prevalence of sleep disorders in children, which may be also linked with altered emotional processes. The present study focused on clinical aspects related to sleep, insomnia and emotions in Italian children aged 0-to-12 years during home ... Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry , 18 (1), pp. 13-27, 2021. Tag: children, COVID-19, Emotions, health, home confinement, insomnia, sleep, sleep hygiene
	40 65 180 Efficacy of interventions for improving health in patients with multiple sclerosis on insomnia symptoms and sleep quality: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials, Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Valeria Bacaro, Carlo Buonanno, Francesco Mancini, Chiara Baglioni ABSTRACT: Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) often experience reduced health-related quality of life and mental health comorbidity. The prevalence of insomnia disorder and sleep quality impairments in MS patients ranges from 47% to 62%. Nevertheless, these problems often remain underdiagnosed and undertreated. This review systematically and critically assesses evidence from randomized clinical trials which evaluated the ... Journal Article: Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, 2021. Tag: Sleep problemsInsomniaInterventionsMultiple sclerosisSystematic reviewRandomized controlled trial
	40 65 188 Compassion-Focused Group Therapy for Treatment-Resistant OCD: Initial Evaluation Using a Multiple Baseline Design Nicola Petrocchi, Teresa Cosentino, Valerio Pellegrini, Giuseppe Femia, Antonella D’Innocenzo, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating mental health disorder that can easily become a treatment-resistant condition. Although effective therapies exist, only about half of the patients seem to benefit from them when we consider treatment refusal, dropout rates, and residual symptoms. Thus, providing effective augmentation to standard therapies could improve existing treatments. Group ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021, ISSN: 1664-1078. Tag: compassion-focused therapy, compassionate mind training, fear of guilt, multiple baseline design, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, self-compassion, self-reassuring, selfcriticism
2020
	40 65 220 A prototypical MMPI-2 configuration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Giuseppe Femia, Andrea Gragnani, Teresa Cosentino, Mauro Giacomantonio, Federico Diano, Antonella Bernaudo, Valerio Pellegrini, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Background: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is often measured through self-report questionnaires focused on measuring symptomatology (Y-BOCS, OCI-R, and PI). The scientific literature identifies the Pt scale as a distinctive marker, but does not report data related to a specific OCD profile of the MMPI-2 test. Therefore, based on some clinical considerations and preliminary investigations, the following study aims to ... Journal Article: Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 8 (3), 2020. Tag: Differential diagnosis; HPC configuration; MMPI-2; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Psychological assessment
	40 65 520 Insomnia in the Italian Population During Covid-19 Outbreak: A Snapshot on One Major Risk Factor for Depression and Anxiety Valeria Bacaro, Marco Chiabudini, Carlo Buonanno, Paola De Bartolo, Dieter Riemann, Francesco Mancini, Chiara Baglioni ABSTRACT: Objectives: One of the largest clusters of Covid-19 infections was observed in Italy. The population was forced to home confinement, exposing individuals to increased risk for insomnia, which is, in turn, associated with depression and anxiety. Through a cross-sectional online survey targeting all Italian adult population (≥18 yrs), insomnia prevalence and its interactions with relevant factors were ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020. Tag: Anxiety, COVID-19, depression, home confinement, insomnia, Italian, sleep
	40 65 402 A systematic review of instruments to assess guilt in children and adolescent Vittoria Zaccari, Marianna Aceto, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Guilt feelings have received considerable attention in past psychological theory and research. Several studies have been conducted that represent a range of views and propose various implications of guilt in children and adolescents. Variations in theoretical definitions of guilt, emphasizing a lack of measurement convergence, make it difficult to derive a comprehensive definition of the construct in childhood and ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology , 11 (573488), 2020, ISSN: 1664-0640. Tag: adolescents, children, development, guilt, instrument, measure, systematic review
	40 65 354 Internet addiction disorder: nuova emergenza nel mondo dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza Federica Russo, Roberto Ceria, Jacopo Jarach, Cecilia Laglia, Lavinia Lombardi, Lorenza Isola ABSTRACT: Le nuove tecnologie hanno cambiato e continuano a cambiare profondamente il nostro modo di vivere. Il continuo processo di adattamento al cambiamento tecnologico condiziona e modifica costantemente le nostre interazioni in tutti gli ambiti di vita. Non ultima la salute mentale e il lavoro in psicoterapia. Il presente lavoro si pone dunque come obiettivo quello di ritrarre lo stato dell’arte di un campo in ... Journal Article: QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA , 47 , 2020, ISSN: 1127-6347. Tag: adolescenza, fattori di rischio e di protezione, IAD, infanzia
	40 65 171 Asymmetric Contributions of the Fronto-Parietal Network to Emotional Conflict in the Word–Face Interference Task Francesca De Luca, Manuel Petrucci, Bianca Monachesi, Michal Lavidor, Anna Pecchinenda ABSTRACT: The fronto-parietal network is involved in top-down and bottom-up processes necessary to achieve cognitive control. We investigated the role of asymmetric enhancement of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) and right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) in cognitive control under conditions of emotional conflict arising from emotional distractors. The effects of anodal tDCS over the lDLPFC/cathodal over the ... Journal Article: Symmetry, 2020. Tag: fronto-parietal network; left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; right posterior parietal cortex; word–face interference; tDCS; emotional conflict; stimulus valence
	40 65 707 Imagery Rescripting on Guilt-Inducing Memories in OCD: A Single Case Series Study Katia Tenore, Barbara Basile, Teresa Cosentino, Brunetto De Sanctis, Stefania Fadda, Giuseppe Femia, Andrea Gragnani, Olga I. Luppino, Valerio,Pellegrini, Claudia Perdighe, Giuseppe Romano, Angelo M. Saliani, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Background and objectives: Criticism is thought to play an important role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and obsessive behaviors have been considered as childhood strategies to avoid criticism. Often, patients with OCD report memories characterized by guilt-inducing reproaches. Starting from these assumptions, the aim of this study is to test whether intervening in memories of guilt-inducing reproaches can ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11 , pp. 1018, 2020, ISSN: 1664-0640 . Tag: criticism, guilt, imagery rescripting, memories, obsessive-compulsive disorder
	40 65 144 Blood pressure-related hypoalgesia: a systematic review andmeta-analysis Elena Makovac, Giuseppina Porciello, Daniela Palombad, Barbara Basile, Cristina Ottaviani ABSTRACT: Objective: Spontaneous or experimentally induced high blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain perception, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. Despite its clinical implications, such as the interference with early detection of myocardial infarction in 'at risk' groups, the size of the association between high BP and pain has not yet been quantified. Moreover, the distinct association between high BP and ... Journal Article: 38 (8), pp. 1420–1435, 2020. Tag: blood pressure, hypertension, hypoalgesia, Meta-analysis, pain
	40 65 147 The Apple of Daddy’s Eye: Parental Overvaluation Links the Narcissistic Traits of Father and Child Gabrielle Coppola, Pasquale Musso, Carlo Buonanno, Cristina Semeraro, Barbara Iacobellis, Rosalinda Cassibba, Valentina Levantini, Gabriele Masi, Sander Thomaes, Pietro Muratori ABSTRACT: This study contributes to the literature on the parental correlates of children’s narcissism. It addresses whether parental overvaluation may drive the putative link between parents’ narcissism and children’s narcissism and self-esteem. The cross-sectional design involved a community sample of 519 school-age children (age ranging from 9 to 11 years old) and their parents from an Italian urban context. ... Journal Article: Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17 (15), 2020. Tag: childhood narcissistic traits; parental overvaluation; parenting; father’s narcissism; parenting
	40 65 603 The Social Mentalities Scale: A new measure for assessing the interpersonal motivations underlying social relationships Maurizio Brasini, Annalisa Tanzilli, Jessica Pistella, Daniela Gentile, Ivan Di Marco and Francesco Mancini, Vittorio Lingiardi, Roberto Baiocco ABSTRACT: The evolutionary perspective on human emotions and motivations posits that all interpersonal interactions are shaped by an array of social mentalities, dwelling on our species' bio-behavioral disposition to pursue some evolutionarily valuable social goals (i.e., interpersonal motivational systems). The paucity of valid and reliable measures of such mentalities has limited empirical research into how these processes ... Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 167 , 2020. Tag: Evolutionary psychology; Social mentality; Multimotivational theory; Interpersonal motivational systems; AIMIT; SMS
	40 65 744 La psicoterapia come processo creativo basato sul gioco sociale Maurizio Brasini ABSTRACT: Since psychotherapy is an activity aimed at change, here we consider it as an example of interpersonal creative process. In this context, creativity consists in identifying new and adaptive solutions to common problems, a skill that can be learned and exercised within a “proximal development zone”. Secondly, it is proposed that the evolutionary social mentality of play is the elective context for the development ... Journal Article: Formamente International research journal on digital future, 2 (supplement), pp. 261-283, 2020. Tag: Creativity, intersubjectivity, social mentality, social play, synchronization, therapeutic process
	40 65 217 Luca: il timore di essere contaminato dalla madre e il ruolo dei genitori nel mantenimento della sintomatologia Caterina Villirillo, Rossella Cascone, Carlo Buonanno ABSTRACT: In questo lavoro viene descritto il caso di un ragazzo di 16 anni, giunto in terapia con una diagnosi di disturbo ossessivo compulsivo, per la quale aveva già intrapreso una psicoterapia, con presa in carico farmacologica, senza miglioramento dei sintomi. La sintomatologia ossessiva è associata al timore di essere contaminato dall’alito materno. Tuttavia, fin dai primi incontri, emerge con chiarezza una ... Journal Article: Quaderni di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, (46), 2020, ISSN: 1127-6347. Tag: adolescenza, Disturbo Ossessivo Compulsivo, disturbo schizotipico, parent training, timore di contaminazione, trattamento
	40 65 715 Validation and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Fear of Guilt Scale Teresa Cosentino, Valerio Pellegrini, Mauro Giacomantonio, Angelo Maria Saliani, Barbara Basile, Marco Saettoni, Andrea Gragnani, Carlo Buonanno, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Several studies and clinical observations have proven the central role of the fear of guilt in the genesis and maintenance of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. To date, questionnaires are available in Italian that measure one’s propensity to experience guilt and sensitivity towards this emotion, understood as a tendency to negatively judge this experience and its effects, but not the fear of guilt and the commitment ... Journal Article: Rassegna di Psicologia , XXXVII (1), pp. 59-70, 2020. Tag: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Guilt; Fear of Guilt; sensitivity of guilt; FOGS.
	40 65 196 Rassegne Eziopatogenesi e valutazione dei tratti narcisistici in età evolutiva Origins and evaluation of youth narcissism Pietro Muratori, Annarita Milone, Carlo Buonanno, Sabrina Ianni andEmanuela Inguaggiato, Valentina Levantini, Simone Pisano, Elena Valente, Gabriele Masi ABSTRACT: Recentemente la ricerca ha focalizzato l’attenzione sul narcisismo come tratto di personalità non necessariamente patologico, che può essere presente fin dall’età scolare e può condurre, in taluni casi, a conseguenze negative nello sviluppo del bambino, come problematiche affettive e comportamentali. Dopo aver illustrato le principali ipotesi sulle origini di questi tratti in età evolutiva, questo articolo ... Journal Article: Rivista di Psichiatria, 55 (2), pp. 71-78, 2020. Tag: aggressività, autostima, Childhood Narcissism Scale., disturbo oppositivo provocatorio, narcisismo
	40 65 671 The link between mother and child's obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A test of simple and serial mediation models in a healthy community sample Gabrielle Coppola, Alessandro Costantini, Marvita Goffredo, Domenico Vito Antonio Piazzolla, Cristina Semeraro, Rosalinda Cassibba, Maria Grazia Foschino Barbaro, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: This study intends to build on current literature regarding the parental correlates of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms among school-age children by addressing a gap related to the possible relations of parental OC symptoms, parenting stress and dysfunctional caregiving behaviors with the child's OC symptoms. The cross – sectional design involved 113 children (61 female; M age = 11.04 years, SD = 1.00) and their ... Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 25 , 2020. Tag: Mother-child dyads, obsessive compulsive disorder, Parenting behavior, Parenting stress, PARQ-C, School-age children
	40 65 198 SOSTEGNO ALLA GENITORIALITA’: STRUMENTI ED INTERVENTI COGNITIVI Lorenza Isola, Monica Mercuriu ABSTRACT: La nascita di un figlio è un’occasione favorevole di cambiamento per i genitori. Il non coglierla rappresenta una rinuncia ad un percorso di sviluppo per tutta la famiglia. La genitorialità va, dunque, intesa come un percorso che risente dei diversi momenti di crescita, dei conseguenti cambiamenti del bambino e delle opportunità e difficoltà dei singoli (padre, madre, fratelli, sorelle, famiglia allargata) ... Book: 2020. Tag: genitorialità
	40 65 151 SOSTEGNO ALLA GENITORIALITA’: STRUMENTI ED INTERVENTI COGNITIVI Lorenza Isola, Monica Mercuriu ABSTRACT: La nascita di un figlio è un’occasione favorevole di cambiamento per i genitori. Il non coglierla rappresenta una rinuncia ad un percorso di sviluppo per tutta la famiglia. La genitorialità va, dunque, intesa come un percorso che risente dei diversi momenti di crescita, dei conseguenti cambiamenti del bambino e delle opportunità e difficoltà dei singoli (padre, madre, fratelli, sorelle, famiglia allargata) ... Book: 2020. Tag: genitorialità
2019
	40 65 918 When Kindness Falls Apart: The Disrupting Effect of Dependency, Perfectionism and Narcissism in Adjusting to Cancer Simone Cheli, Francesco Mancini Journal Article: Psycho-Oncology, 2019. Tag: cancer, narcissism, perfectionism
	40 65 881 Early maladaptive schemas in overweight and obesity: A schema mode model Barbara Basile, Katia Tenore, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Obesity is a growing burden in our societies and, although different kinds of treatments are effective in the short time, weight gain often reoccurs in the longer period. One possible explanation might rely on the little comprehension of obese maladaptive schemas, as developed from early life experiences, which might interfere with treatment enduring efficacy. The aim of this study was to investigate early ... Journal Article: Heliyon, 5 , 2019. Tag: Eating disorders Obesity Early maladaptive schemas Bingeing Schema-modes Clinical psychology Psychiatry
	40 65 1057 Interpersonal Forgiveness and Adolescent Depression. The Mediational Role of Self-reassurance and Self-criticism Barbara Barcaccia, Marco Salvati, Susanna Pallini, Roberto Baiocco, Giuseppe Curcio, Francesco Mancini, Giovanni Maria Vecchio ABSTRACT: Objectives Literature indicates that positive feelings towards oneself and others are important assets for well-being. In this study we intended to test the mediational role of self-reassurance, self-hate and self-inadequateness on the relationships between depression and interpersonal forgiveness, avoidance and revenge, respectively. Methods Participants were 2105 adolescents (N= 979 boys; 1126 girls) ... Journal Article: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2019, ISSN: 1573-2843. Tag: Compassion Forgiveness Adolescent depression, Self-hate, Self-inadequateness, Self-ressurance
	40 65 165 Emotion frst: children prioritize emotional faces in gaze‑cued attentional orienting Anna Pecchinenda, Manuel Petrucci ABSTRACT: Children shift their attention based on the gaze direction of another person but it is unclear whether they prioritize only the gaze of fearful faces over neutral ones or more generally, the gaze of emotional faces. School children performed a gazecueing task, in which central, non-predictive happy, angry, and neutral face-cues were briefy presented with averted gaze. Findings for 9–10-year-old children showed ... Journal Article: Psychological Research, 2019. Tag: emotional faces, gaze-cued
	40 65 841 Am I guilty or not? Deontological guilt, uncertainty, and checking behavior Mauro Giacomantonio, Marco Salvati, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Literature suggest thet checking behaviors are aimed at reducing feelings of uncertainty both in clinical samples with obsessive-compulsive disorder and in general population. Previous studies also showed that deontological guilt is an emotion often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate the differences in checking behaviors in the condition of high ... Journal Article: Appl Cognit Psychol, 1 (9), 2019. Tag: Altruistic guilt, checking behaviors, Deontological guilt, obesessive-compulsive disorder, uncertainty
	40 65 1168 Forgiving Adolescents: far from depression, close to well-being Barbara Barcaccia, Susanna Pallini, Andrea Pozza, Michela Milioni, Roberto Baiocco, Francesco Mancini, Giovanni Maria Vecchio ABSTRACT: Forgiveness has been proven to be an effective way of regulating negative affect and decreasing depression. This study aimed at examining the relationship among constructs particularly relevant to adolescents’ well-being, including forgivingness (dispositional forgiveness) anger, depression and Hedonic Balance (HB). Specifically, using a structural equation modelling approach, the fully mediational role of the ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology , 10 , pp. 1725, 2019, ISSN: 1664-1078 . Tag: adolescence, Anger, depression, forgiveness, well-being
	40 65 999 Reducing probability overestimation of threatening events: An Italian study on the efficacy of cognitive techniques in non-clinical subjects Amelia Gangemi, Andrea Gragnani, Margherita Dahò, Carlo Buonanno ABSTRACT: Objectives: Our study was aimed at evaluating the efficacy and stability of the “Pie Technique”, “Cumulative Probability” and “Inverted Pyramid”, cognitive techniques applied in a clinical context to reduce overestimation of the probability of threatening events. Method: 319 healthy participants were randomly assigned to one of 8 groups. Groups differed on the level of trait anxiety (high vs. low), and ... Journal Article: Clinica, 16 (3), pp. 149-155, 2019. Tag: anxiety disorder, cognitive techniques, cognitive therapy, probability, Trait anxiety
	40 65 1107 Considering Sleep, Mood, and Stress in a Family Context: A Preliminary Study Valeria Bacaro, Bernd Feige, Andrea Balesio, Paola De Bartolo, Anna F. Johann, Carlo Buonanno, Francesco Mancini, Caterina Lombardo, Dieter Riemann, Chiara Baglioni ABSTRACT: Background: During the first years of life, parental sleep strongly depends on child’s sleep quality. Poor parental sleep may relate to increased stress and negative mood. However, there is a lack of sleep studies focusing on all family members. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep, mood, and stress in mothers, fathers and children. Methods: Data were obtained from 65 parental couples and ... Journal Article: Clocks & Sleep, 1 (2), pp. 259-272, 2019. Tag: sleep; infant sleep; family context; stress; sleep habits; mood
	40 65 1484 Il processo di accettazione nella terapia dell'Accettazione e dell'Impegno (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT) Barbara Barcaccia Journal Article: Rassegna di Psicologia, XXXVI , 2019, ISSN: 1974-4854. Tag: acceptance and commitment therapy, ACT
	40 65 2123 Un modello cognitivo delle dipendenze affettive patologiche Erica Pugliese, Angelo Maria Saliani, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Una versione di questo articolo è stata pubblicata nel fascicolo 1 2019 della rivista Psicobiettivo Riassunto. Negli ultimi anni le dipendenze affettive come forma di sofferenza psicopatologica hanno raccolto sempre più attenzione, pur non essendo riconosciute fra i sistemi nosografici ufficiali. Il presente articolo ha l’obiettivo di definire il costrutto di dipendenza affettiva, tracciare il profilo del ... Journal Article: Psicobiettivo, 1 , pp. 43-58, 2019. Tag: co-dipendenza, dipendenza affettiva, dipendenza emotiva, relazioni violente, stalking, violenza domestica
	40 65 1230 Mindfulness and metacognition in facing with fear of recurrence: A proof‐of‐concept study with breast‐cancer women Simone Cheli, Lucia Caligiani, Francesca Martella, Paola De Bartolo, Francesco Mancini, Luisa Fioretto ABSTRACT: Abstract Objective Fear of recurrence is a crucial issue in cancer care. On the one hand, the increase of cancer‐survival rates and complexity of care is exposing patients to this type of fear. On the other hand, it is a distressing and recurrent psychosocial risk that affects quality of life and adherence to follow‐up. Patients should have access to targeted psychological interventions aimed at reducing or ... Journal Article: Psycho‐Oncology, 2019. Tag: breast cancer cancer compassion fear of cancer recurrence metacognition mindfulness oncology
	40 65 803 Two reasoning strategies in patients with psychological illnesses Amelia Gangemi, Katia Tenore, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: The hyper-emotion theory states that psychological disorders are conditions in which individuals experience emotions that are appropriate to the situation but inappropriate in their intensity. When these individuals experience such an emotion, they inevitably are compelled to reason about its cause. They therefore develop characteristic strategies of reasoning depending on the particular hyper-emotion they ... Journal Article: Frontiers in Psychology , 2019. Tag: Anxiety disorders, corroboratory strategy, Emotions, Hyper Emotion Theory, Obsessive-compulsive disorders, reasoning, Refutatory strategy
	40 65 174 Doubts about me, doubts about you: a case of comorbid obsessivecompulsive and paranoid personality disorders Manuel Petrucci, Andrea Gragnani ABSTRACT: The case formulation and cognitive-behavior therapy of a patient whose pathology fulfills criteria for both obsessive-compulsive (OCD) and paranoid personality disorders (PPD) is described. Case formulation encompasses all the relevant cognitive, emotional and motivational factors underlying he disorders, emphasizing interactions between processes and strategies aimed at investigating and disconfirming feared ... Journal Article: Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 25 (3), pp. 359-375, 2019. Tag: guilt, Humiliation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Paranoid personality, Risk acceptance
2018
	40 65 327 Fattori di rischio e fattori di protezione nella genitorialità adottiva Federica Russo, Anna Torre, Diana La Rocca, Valeria Semeraro, Rosaria Monfregola, Lorenza Isola ABSTRACT: Sempre più frequentemente si viene a contatto con situazioni cliniche riconducibili a problematiche psicologiche conseguenti al processo adottivo, sia per quanto riguarda la coppia genitoriale sia i soggetti adottati. Per questo motivo ci si è posti l’obiettivo di analizzare l’intero iter adottivo. L’applicazione, ad oggi, di un intervento sulla situazione antecedente presenta una serie di difficoltà. Si è ... Journal Article: QUADERNI DI PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA , 43 , pp. 74-96, 2018. Tag: Adozione, CUIDA, fattori di rischio, fattori di vulnerabilità, intervista semi-strutturata
	40 65 1859 When positive emotions lead to feeling bad. The role of secondary evaluation and affect as information in hypomania and mania Antonella Rainone, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: In this article we focus on hypomania and mania in bipolar disorder and, in all probability, only in some types of bipolar disorder. We deal with positive emotions, whose psychopathogenic role still receives too little attention in experimental and clinical psychology. We propose a hypothesis with regard to the psychological mechanisms involved in hypomanic and manic decompensation that posits in primis the ... Journal Article: Rivista di Psichiatria, 56 (6), pp. 317-323, 2018. Tag: disregolazione, disturbo bipolare, emozioni positive, ipomania, mania
	40 65 1223 Schemas, Modes and coping strategies in obsessive-compulsive like symptoms Katia Tenore, Francesco Mancini, Barbara Basile ABSTRACT: Objective: Schema Therapy (ST) integrates cognitive-behavior therapy with emotion-focused, gestalt and object relations approaches. ST postulates that unmet emotional core needs in childhood play a role in the development of Early Maladaptive Schemas, that are maintained by dysfunctional coping strategies, and reveal themselves through specific modes. Ad hoc ST conceptualizations for personality disorders or for ... Journal Article: Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 15 (6), pp. 384-392, 2018. Tag: coping, Early maladaptive schemas, modes, OCD, Schema therapy
	40 65 1506 Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Symptoms at Ultra High Risk for Psychosis in Children and Adolescents with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Is There an Association with Global, Role, and Social Functioning? Roberto Averna, Maria Pontillo, Francesco Demaria, Marco Armando, Ornella Santonastaso, Maria Laura Pucciarini, Cristina Tata, Francesco Mancini, Stefano Vicari ABSTRACT: In literature nothing is known about the clinical significance of Ultra High Risk (UHR) symptoms in children and adolescents with diagnosis of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). In this study, we examined the prevalence of UHR symptoms and their relationship with severity of obsessive–compulsive symptomatology, global, social, and role functioning, and level of associated depressive symptoms in a clinical ... Journal Article: Brain Sciences, 8 (10), 2018. Tag: obsessive–compulsive disorder; psychosis; ultra-high risk; functioning; child and adolescent psychiatry
	40 65 1672 A theorical integration of Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy in OCD tratment: goals and beliefs of the Obsessive Mind (part 1) Olga Ines Luppino, Katia Tenore, Francesco Mancini, Barbara Basile ABSTRACT: The present work is the first of a trilogy of articles whose purpose, as a whole, is to present a theoretical conceptualization of OCD functioning, which results from the integration between the Cognitive Therapy model, as proposed by Mancini (2018), and the Schema Therapy Mode model. In particular, this first paper aims to synthetically present the cognitive model of OCD functioning. According to the frame offered ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2261-2277, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. Tag: cognitive therapy, Deontological guilt, Disgust, obsessive-compulsive disorder
	40 65 1569 A Theoretical Integration of Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy in OCD Treatment: Conceptualization and Rationale (Part II) Katia Tenore, Barbara Basile, Francesco Mancini, Olga Ines Luppino ABSTRACT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has been identified as the first choice treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Although a significant proportion of patients benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, another still fails to respond to CBT. To improve outcomes, new targets of intervention have been broadened, but no clear and comprehensive conceptualizations of the disorder have been suggested. In the last ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2278-2295, 2018, ISBN: 2152-7199. Tag: Acceptance, cognitive therapy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Schema therapy
	40 65 1690 A Theoretical Integration of Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy in OCD Treatment: Experiential Techniques and Cognitive-Based Interventions in Action (Part III) Barbara Basile, Olga Ines Luppino, Francesco Mancini, Katia Tenore ABSTRACT: This final article is part of the trilogy presenting a possible integration of Schema Therapy (ST) and Cognitive Therapy (CT) in Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatment. It aims at describing how experiential and cognitive based acceptance techniques might be applied to treat this psychopathological condition. In the first article published in this special issue ( Luppino et al., 2018 ) we reported the main ... Journal Article: Psychology, 9 (9), pp. 2296-2311, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. Tag: Acceptance, Chairwork, cognitive therapy, Imagery with Rescripting, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Schema therapy
	40 65 1664 The more you judge the worse you feel. A judgemental attitude towards one's inner experience predicts depression and anxiety Barbara Barcaccia, Roberto Baiocco, Andrea Pozza, Susanna Pallini, Francesco Mancini and Marco Salvati ABSTRACT: Literature reviews have shown that trait-mindfulness is significantly correlated to emotional wellbeing, both in adults and in children. Particularly, being judgemental towards one's inner thoughts, feelings and sensations, and acting unawares, is associated with higher maladjustment. In the present cross-sectional study, we explored the role of the different facets of mindfulness in both anxiety and depression, ... Journal Article: Personality and Individual Differences, 138 (2019), pp. 33-39, 2018. Tag: Acceptance, Anxiety, depression, Judgemental attitude, Mindfulness, Rumination, worry
	40 65 1429 Senso di colpa deontologico e senso di colpa altruistico: una tesi dualista Francesco Mancini, Amelia Gangemi ABSTRACT: Riassunto. In questo articolo intendiamo sostenere la tesi che esistano due sensi di colpa ben distinti fra loro: il senso di colpa deontologico e quello altruistico. Presenteremo quindi una tesi dualista, che si contrappone alle tradizionali tesi moniste che si ritrovano nella letteratura sulla colpa (vedi approccio intrapsichico o psicoanalitico vs. approccio interpersonale). Mostreremo come i due sensi di colpa ... Journal Article: Giornale italiano di Psicologia, 3 , 2018. Tag: disgusto, Senso di colpa
	40 65 1183 Efficacia in termini di esiti professionali della formazione in Psicoterapia. Una ricerca sul destino professionale degli specializzati nelle Scuole dell'Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva-APC e della Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva-SPC negli anni 2009-2016 Claudia Perdighe, Barbara Basile, Fabio Rossi, Valeria Scalisi, Paolo Pasquini, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Riassunto. Oggetto del presente lavoro è una ricerca sul destino professionale dei diplomati nelle Scuole di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, dell’Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva (APC) e della Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva (SPC). Attraverso un’intervista on-line o telefonica sono stati raccolti dati su condizioni lavorative, esercizio della psicoterapia, vari indici di ... Journal Article: Giornale italiano di Psicologia, 3 , 2018. Tag: CBT, professional efficacy, professional satisfaction, psychotherapy training, sense of expertise.
	40 65 1462 Moral Judgment and empathic/Deontological Guilt Simone Migliore, Giulia D'Aurizio, Francesca Parisi, Sabrina Maffi, Barbara Squitieri, Giuseppe Curcio, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: People often make complicated decisions to help or to punish perfect strangers. Harming someone or breaking some moral imperative is usually linked to feeling guilt, and several researches suggested the existence of two different kinds of guilt: altruistic/empathic and deontological. Aim Our study aimed to investigate the decision-making processes in moral and nonmoral judgments and assess how specific ... Journal Article: Psychological Reports, pp. 1-17, 2018. Tag: altruistic, decision-making, deontological, Emotions, guilt, moral dilemma
	40 65 1601 I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! Cristina Ottaviani, Alberto Collazzoni, Francesca D'Olimpio, Tania Rovetta, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: The emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy participants were ... Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2018. Tag: Altruistic guilt, Deontological guilt, Disgust, Heart rate variability, obsessive-compulsive disorder
	40 65 0 I obsessively clean because deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! Cristina Ottaviani, Alberto Collazzoni, Francesca D'Olimpio, Tania Moretta, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: The emotions of guilt and disgust play a pivotal role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study hypothesized the existence of a distinctive relation between deontological (but not altruistic) guilt and subjective and physiological correlates of disgust. Moreover, we aimed at testing whether the evoked emotion of disgust may activate OCD-like washing behaviors. Gender-matched healthy participants were ... Journal Article: Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 20 , pp. 21-29, 2018. Tag: Obsessive-compulsive disorderHeart rate variabilityDisgustDeontological guiltAltruistic guilt
	40 65 459 Fairness is a more effective interpersonal motive than care for sustaining prosocial behaviour Maurizio Brasini, Sasha Del Vecchio, Edoardo Gregni, Chiara Casali, Francesca Mira, Nicolina Capuano, Valentina Questa, Mauro Giacomantonio, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: The present study stems from three general assumptions about prosocial behav-iour: a) that it has an evolutionary foundation; b) that it is sensitive to the inter-personal context in which it takes place; and c) that it can be supported by different values and motives. An experiment based on the Dictator Game (DG) was carried out, in which two groups of participants with different Social Values Orientation (SVO) ... Journal Article: Psychology, 2018, ISSN: 2152-7199. Tag: Dictator Game (DG), Evolutionary Theory of Motivation, Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), Peer Cooperation, Prosocial Behaviour, Social Values Orientation (SVO)
	40 65 1569 Investigating schema therapy constructs in individuals with depression Barbara Basile, Katia Tenore, Francesco Mancini ABSTRACT: Background: Schema Therapy (ST) has been applied to several psychological disorders. The aim of this study was to further corroborate Renner’s ST model for depression (2012), investigating maladaptive schemas, modes, and avoidant coping styles in a large non-clinical sample and in two sub-groups of subjects with high and low depression rates. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analyses were run on ... Journal Article: Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry, 9 (2), pp. 214-221, 2018. Tag: avoidant coping strategies, depression, Early maladaptive schemas, modes, Schema therapy