Understanding and Treating Procrastination: A Review of a Common Self-Regulatory Failure

Today a new paper was published. It was authoered by Alexander Rozental and myself. Procrastination is a pervasive self-regulatory failure affecting approximately one-fifth of the adult population and half of the student population. It is defined as one’s voluntarily delay of an intended course of action despite being worse off as a result of that … Read more

Group versus Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for procrastination

Today a new paper entitled “Group versus Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for procrastination: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial” was accepted. Procrastination is defined as a voluntarily delay of an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse-off for the delay, and is considered a persistent behavior pattern that can result in major psychological … Read more

Guided internet-delivered CBT for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Today a new study was published. The aim of that randomized controlled trial was to investigate the effects of guided internet-based cognitive behavior therapy (ICBT) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sixty-two participants with chronic PTSD, as assessed by the Clinician-administered PTSD Scale, were recruited via nationwide advertising and randomized to either treatment (n = 31) … Read more

Just published: Internet-delivered versus face-to-face group cognitive behavioural therapy for depression

Guided internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) has been found to be effective in the treatment of mild to moderate depression, but there have been no direct comparisons with the more established group-based CBT with a long-term follow-up.   Method Participants with mild to moderate depression were recruited from the general population and randomized to either … Read more