Patrick Steffen

Keywords physiological stress, responsiveness, psychotherapy, red responders College Family, Home, and Social Sciences Abstract Research conducted by Michael Lambert et al. has found that a substantial minority of psychotherapy clients (about 10%) get worse over the course of therapy. They call these clients ‘red responders’ because they are of particular concern for the therapists and require additional focused treatment. Interestingly, at the other end of the spectrum, Lambert et al.

Keywords heart rate variability, biofeedback, fMRI measures, cognitive functioning, depression College Family, Home, and Social Sciences Abstract Evaluation of how well the academic objectives of the proposal were met The primary objectives of this project was to examine neurological changes in depressed individuals who were randomized to either a psychotherapy plus Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback training or to a treatment as usual group.

Keywords Intrinsic religiosity; Mediation; Religious service attendance. Abstract Religious service attendance predicts increased well-being across a number of studies. It is not clear, however, whether this relationship is due to religious factors such as intrinsic religiosity or due to nonreligious factors such as social support or socially desirable responding.