Geänderte Inhalte

Liebe Alle, Frau Nyenhuis wird wahrscheinlich auch am Mittwoch, den 17.12.2025 noch abwesend sein. Die Fachaufsicht übernimmt Mirjana Ruhleder. Liebe Grüße Anna TBZ-Büro

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is maintained by dysfunctional trauma-related appraisals. Cognitive Bias Modification for Appraisals (CBM-APP) aims to train patients to make more functional trauma-related appraisals and has been shown to reduce PTSD symptoms. However, little is known about how this training affects the functional interrelations among symptoms and cognitive appraisals. In this secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial involving 77 adult patients diagnosed with PTSD (CBM-APP: n = 37; control training: n = 40), we applied cross-sectional network analysis to examine changes in the structure and centrality of associations among PTSD symptom clusters (re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood, hyperarousal) and trauma-related cognitive measures. To capture multiple levels of cognitive processing, we included responses during a scenario task (reflective, idiosyncratic, spontaneous appraisals) and the Implicit Association Test (automatic self-associations). Four Gaussian Graphical Models were estimated (pre-/post-training × CBM-APP vs. control group). While overall network connectivity did not differ significantly across networks, descriptive patterns indicated that Alterations in Cognition and Mood emerged as the most central node in both groups at post-training assessment. Further, in the CBM-APP group, the centrality of implicit trauma-related associations decreased pre- to post-training, suggesting potential decoupling of automatic negative self-associations from symptom activation. Given the small sample and moderate network stability, findings are preliminary but suggest that CBM-APP may influence the relational structure of PTSD symptoms and cognitions, offering insight into putative mechanisms of cognitive therapeutic change.

PsychArchives is a disciplinary repository for psychological science and neighboring disciplines.

The current study explored the dynamics of parent-child coordinated attention to novel and familiar objects during a play session, to examine whether parents or children are more likely to lead instances of coordinated joint attention to novel or familiar objects, and how children learn from periods of child-led or parent-led joint attention. Particularly, we investigated whether (i) parents or children lead more instances of joint attention when playing with novel relative to familiar objects, (ii) parents preferentially label novel relative to familiar objects, and (iii) children's learning of novel word-object associations is affected by object labelling frequency and children's sustained attention towards the objects. We found that not only do children lead more instances of joint attention, but, relative to their caregivers, children lead more instances of joint attention to familiar objects relative to novel objects. Parents also appeared to follow their child’s attention and labelled familiar objects more often than novel objects. Furthermore, we found no evidence for children’s recognition of the novel word-object associations. Our findings highlight the contingent nature of social interactions between caregivers and infants, with children leading and parents following their child’s lead, especially with regard to more familiar objects in the child’s environment.