Call for papers for Special Issue on Mental Imagery in Chronic Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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全文截稿: 2018-12-01
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Overview
In the last several years, there has been growing interest in the role of mental imagery in psychopathology and in the development of new interventions for the modification of problematic imagery. Foundational theories of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) suggest a dysfunctional relationship between chronic worry and mental imagery. Accordingly, imagery based interventions (e.g., worry exposure) have long been recommended as part of cognitive-behavioural treatment. Yet, surprisingly little is actually known about mental imagery in the context of GAD. The goals of this Special Issue are to enhance the current understanding of mental imagery and its role in the etiology, maintenance and treatment of chronic worry and GAD, and to stimulate more empirical work in these areas.
We invite the following Original Research Articles describing studies conducted with healthy individuals, subclinical high worriers or individuals with clinically-severe chronic worry i.e., generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).
1) Studies (cross-sectional correlational, experimental, prospective longitudinal) examining the relationship of mental imagery characteristics/abilities/processes to worry, or worry-related cognitive and behavioural processes
2) Studies (cross-sectional correlational, experimental, prospective longitudinal) examining the relationships among visuospatial working memory, worry, and worry-related cognitive and behavioural processes
3) Observational studies comparing individuals with GAD to other groups (clinical, healthy control) on mental imagery abilities and characteristics or processes
4) Studies on novel subjective (self-report) or objective (physiological or indirect) approaches to the assessment of mental imagery, or avoidance of mental imagery in people with chronic worry or GAD.
5) Proof-of-concept therapy experiments or randomized controlled trials testing the efficacy or mechanisms of imagery-based cognitive or behavioural interventions for chronic worry or generalized anxiety disorder e.g., imaginal exposure, imagery training