Christian F. Mauro

Journal Article Issues Ment Health Nurs · March 2022 We report on the adaptation and evaluation of an existing approach to multicultural education into an eight-session online, modular curriculum for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner students (n = 6) and psychology interns (n = 10). Training parti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Children's Beliefs about Pain: An Exploratory Analysis.

Journal Article Children (Basel) · May 27, 2021 Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is one of the most common childhood medical complaints, associated with significant distress and impairment. Little is known about how children understand their pain. Do they attribute it to personal weakness? Do they percei ... Full text Link to item Cite

When children and adolescents do not go to school: Terminology, technology, and trends

Chapter · January 1, 2019 This chapter addresses the many challenging issues faced by children who struggle to attend school. First, we review history and terminology and discuss the longstanding difficulty of accurately classifying and understanding these children and families. We ... Full text Cite

Group CBT-yoga protocol targeting pain-related and internalizing symptoms in youth

Journal Article Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology · March 1, 2018 There is a high prevalence of pain-related somatic symptoms among children with internalizing disorders. Despite the documented comorbidity between somatic and internalizing symptoms in youth, there are limited empirically supported interventions that simu ... Full text Cite

Acceptance-based interoceptive exposure for young children with functional abdominal pain.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · October 2017 UNLABELLED: Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is a common childhood somatic complaint that contributes to impairment in daily functioning (e.g., school absences) and increases risk for chronic pain and psychiatric illness. Cognitive behavioral treatments for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Family-based treatment of early childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder: the Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study for Young Children (POTS Jr)--a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article JAMA Psychiatry · June 2014 IMPORTANCE: Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has been established as efficacious for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) among older children and adolescents, yet its effect on young children has not been evaluated sufficiently. OBJECTIVE: To examine the r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anxious Youth: Feasibility and Initial Outcomes

Journal Article Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · May 1, 2013 We developed and evaluated a brief (8-session) version of cognitive-behavioral therapy (BCBT) for anxiety disorders in youth ages 6 to 13. This report describes the design and development of the BCBT program and intervention materials (therapist treatment ... Full text Cite

Principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in children

Journal Article Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy · January 1, 2006 This article elucidates the theoretical underpinnings of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) as applied to the treatment of anxiety disorders in children, focusing on social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and separation anxiety disorder. It reviews beh ... Full text Cite

Using and teaching evidence-based medicine: the Duke University child and adolescent psychiatry model.

Journal Article Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am · April 2005 Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is defined as a set of processes that facilitate the conscientious, explicit, and judicious integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research in making dec ... Full text Link to item Cite

The influence of maternal child-rearing attitudes and teaching behaviors on preschoolers' delay of gratification.

Journal Article J Genet Psychol · September 2000 This study was an exploratory examination of the influence of mothers' teaching behaviors, strategies, and child-rearing attitudes on their children's ability to delay gratification. In an externally imposed delay of gratification situation, 30 mothers fro ... Full text Link to item Cite