BACKGROUND Sexual offenders continue to occupy the public's attention; a significant proportion of this population is diagnosed with paraphilias. Cognitivebehavioral treatment has been the mainstay of treatment for sex offenders and for the paraphilias for the past three decades. This article will review the history of cognitivebehavioral therapy, its techniques, and its efficacy. METHOD A li...

This meta-analytic review improved on the methods and scope of similar reviews but reached the same conclusion that behavioral activation (BA) therapies for adult depression are much more effective than control conditions and comparable with cognitive-behavioral interventions. Future research should strengthen our understanding of the mechanisms that account for the effectiveness of BA approach...

Outcome in anorexia nervosa remains poor and a new way of looking at this condition is therefore needed. To this aim, we review the effects of food restriction and starvation in humans. It is suggested that body weight remains stable and relatively low when the access to food requires a considerable amount of physical activity. In this condition, the human homeostatic phenotype, body fat conten...

Once considered a rare clinical condition, trichotillomania is now recognized as a psychological disorder that is more prevalent than previously thought. The behavioral treatment of a 21-year old college woman with a longstanding history of chronic hair pulling is described in this case study. The extent of the trichotillomania was measured during an 11-day baseline period (selfmonitoring, phot...

This paper formulates a single-period portfolio choice model under Kahneman and Tversky’s cumulative prospect theory, featuring a reference point in wealth, S-shaped utility (value) functions with loss aversion, and distortions in probability. An analytical treatment of the model is carried out. A new measure of loss aversion for large payoffs, called the loss aversion degree (LAD), is introduc...

PURPOSES To investigate the efficacy of alarm treatment in a sample of Brazilian children and adolescents with nocturnal enuresis and relate treatment success to age and type of clinical support. MATERIALS AND METHODS During 32 weeks, 84 children and adolescents received alarm treatment together with weekly psychological support sessions for individual families or groups of 5 to 10 families. ...

INTRODUCTION Behavioral (or lifestyle) interventions are considered the cornerstone of obesity treatment. These programs are designed to produce long-term weight losses through changes in diet and physical activity. Behavioral approaches form the basis for the prevention and treatment of obesity in both children and adults. In addition, they are critical components of pharmacological and surgic...

This paper studies malicious behavioral obfuscation through the use of a new abstract model for process and kernel interactions based on monoidal categories. In this model, program observations are considered to be finite lists of system call invocations. In a first step, we show how malicious behaviors can be obfuscated by simulating the observations of benign programs. In a second step, we sh...