Jennifer C. Plumb
University of Nevada, Reno
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Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2010
Michael P. Twohig; Steven C. Hayes; Jennifer C. Plumb; Larry D. Pruitt; Angela B. Collins; Holly Hazlett-Stevens; Michelle R. Woidneck
OBJECTIVE Effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exist, but additional treatment options are needed. The effectiveness of 8 sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for adult OCD was compared with progressive relaxation training (PRT). METHOD Seventy-nine adults (61% female) diagnosed with OCD (mean age = 37 years; 89% Caucasian) participated in a randomized clinical trial of 8 sessions of ACT or PRT with no in-session exposure. The following assessments were completed at pretreatment, posttreatment, and 3-month follow-up by an assessor who was unaware of treatment conditions: Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Beck Depression Inventory-II, Quality of Life Scale, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire, Thought Action Fusion Scale, and Thought Control Questionnaire. Treatment Evaluation Inventory was completed at posttreatment. RESULTS ACT produced greater changes at posttreatment and follow-up over PRT on OCD severity (Y-BOCS: ACT pretreatment = 24.22, posttreatment = 12.76, follow-up = 11.79; PRT pretreatment = 25.4, posttreatment = 18.67, follow-up = 16.23) and produced greater change on depression among those reporting at least mild depression before treatment. Clinically significant change in OCD severity occurred more in the ACT condition than PRT (clinical response rates: ACT posttreatment = 46%-56%, follow-up = 46%-66%; PRT posttreatment = 13%-18%, follow-up = 16%-18%). Quality of life improved in both conditions but was marginally in favor of ACT at posttreatment. Treatment refusal (2.4% ACT, 7.8% PRT) and dropout (9.8% ACT, 13.2% PRT) were low in both conditions. CONCLUSIONS ACT is worth exploring as a treatment for OCD.
Journal of Traumatic Stress | 2004
Susan M. Orsillo; Sonja V. Batten; Jennifer C. Plumb; Jane A. Luterek; Bonnie M. Roessner
Although posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined by the experience of intense negative emotions and emotional numbing (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), empirical study of emotional responding in PTSD has been limited. This study examined emotional responding among women with and without PTSD to positive and negative film stimuli across self-reported experience, facial expression, and written expression. Consistent with previous findings, no evidence for generalized numbing was found. In general, women with PTSD exhibited higher levels of negative activation and expressed more negative emotion words to both positive and negative film stimuli, whereas no group differences emerged in facial expressivity. Results are interpreted within the context of the current literature on emotional deficits associated with PTSD.
Psychological Inquiry | 2007
Steven C. Hayes; Jennifer C. Plumb
Baer, R. A. (2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: A conceptual and empirical review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 125–143. Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., Hopkins, J., Krietemeyer, J., & Toney, L. (2006). Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment, 13, 27–45. Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., Lykins, E. L. B., Button, D., Krietemeyer, J., Sauer, S., Walsh, E., Duggan, J., & Williams, J. M. G. (2007). Facets of self-reported mindfulness in experienced mediators. Manuscript under review. Brown, K. W., Ryan, R. M., & Creswell, J. D. (2007). Mindfulness: Theoretical foundations and evidence for its salutary effects. Psychological Inquiry, 18, 211–237. Harvey, A., Watkins, E., Mansell, W., & Shafran, R. (2004). Cognitive behavioural processes across psychological disorders: A transdiagnostic approach to research and treatment. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K., & Wilson, K. G. (1999). Acceptance and commitment therapy: An experiential approach to behavior change. New York: Guilford. Hayes, S. C., Luoma, J.B., Bond, F. W., Masuda, A., & Lillis, J. (2006). Acceptance and commitment therapy: Model, processes, and outcomes. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 1–25. Hayes, S. C., Wilson, K. D., Gifford, E. V., Follette, V. M., & Strosahl, K. (1996). Emotional avoidance and behavioral disorders: A functional dimensional approach to diagnosis and treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 1152–1168. Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K., Wilson, K. G., Bissett, R. T., Pistorello, J., Toarmino, D., Polusny, M. A., Dykstra, T. A., Batten, S. V., Bergen, J., Stewart, S. H., Zvolensky, M. J., Eifert, G. H., Bond, F. W., Forsyth, J. P., Karekla, M., & McCurry, S. M. (2004). Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model. The Psychological Record, 54, 553–578. Ingram, R. E. (1990). Self-focused attention in clinical disorders: Review and a conceptual model. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 156–176. Lykins, E. L. B., & Baer, R. A. (2007). Psychological functioning in a sample of long-term practitioners of mindfulness meditation. Manuscript under review. Ma, S. H., & Teasdale, J. D. (2004). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression : Replication and exploration of differential relapse prevention effects. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 31–40. Mor, N., & Winquist, J. (2002). Self-focused attention and negative affect: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 638–662. Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1991). Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100, 569–582. Segal, Z. V., Williams, J. M. G., & Teasdale, J. D. (2002). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: A new approach to preventing relapse. New York: Guilford. Teasdale, J. D., Segal, Z. V., & Williams, J. M. G. (2003). Mindfulness training and problem formulation. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 157–160. Teasdale, J. D., Segal, Z. V., Williams, J. M. G., Ridgeway, V. A., Soulsby, J. M., & Lau, M. A. (2000). Prevention of relapserecurrence in major depression by mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 68, 615–623. Trapnell, P. D., & Campbell, J. D. (1999). Private self-consciousness and the five factor model of personality: Distinguishing rumination from reflection. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 284–304. Wenzlaff, R. M., & Wegner, D. M. (2000). Thought suppression. Annual Review of Psychology, 51I, 59–91. Williams, J. M. G. (1996). Depression and the specificity of autobiographical memory. In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Remembering our past: Studies in autobiographical memory (pp. 244–267). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Williams, J. M. G. & Broadbent, K. (1986). Autobiographical memory in suicide attempters. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95, 144–149. Williams, J. M. G., Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., Hermans, D., Raes, F., Watkins, E., & Dalgleish, T. (2007). Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 122–148. Williams, J. M. G., Teasdale, J. D., Segal, Z. V., & Soulsby, J. (2000). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 150–155.
Behavior Analyst | 2009
Jennifer C. Plumb; Ian Stewart; JoAnne Dahl; Tobias Lundgren
Skinner described behavior analysis as the field of values and purpose. However, he defined these concepts in terms of a history of reinforcement and failed to specify whether and how human and nonhuman values might differ. Human values have been seen as theoretically central within a number of nonbehavioral traditions in psychology, including humanism and positive psychology. However, these approaches have failed to provide explanations of the behavior-environment relations involved in valuing that might allow prediction and influence with respect to this phenomenon. Modern clinical behavior analysis in the form of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), however, succeeds in providing a functional definition of human values that meets this latter criterion. ACT is rooted in behavior analysis and relational frame theory (RFT) and defines values in terms of verbally established motivation. ACT empirical research into values has begun to blossom in recent years, and ACT-RFT researchers are currently investigating the concept at the most basic empirical level as well as in the applied clinical arena, heralding new interest in and insight into values within clinical behavioral psychology.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | 2007
Susan M. Orsillo; Christina Theodore-Oklota; Jane A. Luterek; Jennifer C. Plumb
Recent research has highlighted the role of hyperresponsivity and numbing of emotions in posttraumatic stress disorder. Preliminary research suggests that emotional numbing symptoms impact the development, maintenance, and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. However, research in this area has been hindered, in part, due to the absence of a psychometrically sound, conceptually based measure of emotional numbing. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Emotional Reactivity and Numbing Scale in a sample of 92 trauma-exposed men and women veterans. Results provide preliminary support for the internal consistency, test-retest reliability, convergent, and discriminant validity of the measure. Implications for future research are discussed.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy | 2007
Jennifer Block-Lerner; Carrie Adair; Jennifer C. Plumb; Deborah L. Rhatigan; Susan M. Orsillo
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | 2004
Jennifer C. Plumb; Susan M. Orsillo; Jane A. Luterek
Archive | 2009
JoAnne Dahl; Jennifer C. Plumb; Ian Stewart; Tobias Lundgren
Archive | 2010
Michael P. Twohig; Steven C. Hayes; Jennifer C. Plumb; Larry D. Pruitt; Angela B. Collins; Holly Hazlett-Stevens; Michelle R. Woidneck
Archive | 2010
Giovambattista Presti; Jennifer C. Plumb; Michael P. Twohig; Kelly Koerner; Joseph Ciarrochi