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Mental imagery is proposed to play an important role in the amplification and maintenance of depressed mood . Few studies, however, have examined this link in clinical depression. The primary aim of the present study was to examine the affective consequences of mental imagery using an implicit as well as an explicit measure.
- Editorial: Mental Imagery in Clinical Disorders - PMC
Mental imagery refers to the simulation or recreation of...
- Editorial: Mental Imagery in Clinical Disorders - PMC
- Imagery in Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Depression
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Mental Imagery and Psychotherapy
- Imagery Rescripting in Children and Adolescents
- Emotive Imagery
- Imagery Rehearsal Therapy and Rational-Emotive Therapy with Imagery
Fourteen studies investigating mental images and their effects on children’s and adolescents’ clinical symptoms were found. Six of the fourteen studies investigated a clinical sample, four of which had a healthy control group. The other eight studies examined clinical symptoms in analogue samples. Social anxiety symptoms and SAD were investigated i...
Studies investigating MI and PTSD have focused on peri-traumatic aspects which are linked to occurrence and the sensoric qualities of MI in PTSD. Holmes et al. (2007a) examined posttraumatic stress symptoms in 76 healthy schoolchildren (age range 10–11) who were exposed to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 on television. Mental imagery was related to posttr...
All studies investigating MI in the context of social anxiety symptoms or SAD examined various aspects and effects of self-imagery. Schreiber and Steil (2013) investigated 31 adolescents with a diagnosis of SAD, and a control group without a mental disorder (also N = 31), in order to explore the role of negative self-imagery in SAD. The participant...
Pile and Lau (2020) investigated intrusive prospective negative imagery (flash-forwards) and symptoms of GAS, depression, and social anxiety in 352 participants (age ranging from 11 to 16). A higher frequency and hyperarousal due to these flash-forwards was linked to GAS and depressive symptoms, but not to those of social anxiety. Furthermore, supp...
Studies investigating MI in adolescent depression have focused on characteristics of MI and their links to depressive symptoms. Kuyken and Howell (2006) compared 31 adolescents without depression and 34 with depression, aged 12–18, with regard to autobiographical images. In this sample, they found that depressed adolescents are more likely to perce...
Ozsivadjian et al. (2017) investigated the effects of three images; a relaxed self-generated situation, a proposed anxious situation (either presenting to the class, or to the entire school), and a spontaneously generated anxious image experienced by children with ASD and non-ASD. Autistic children tend to have more images than healthy participants...
With respect to treatments of psychological disorders in children and adolescents, imagery can be used as an explicit part of the intervention (e.g., imagery rescripting, IR) or implicitly involved as an objective (e.g., video-feedback). Video-feedback aims at modifying of the distorted view of the social self in SAD by providing a realistic image ...
Three case studies with children and adolescents, (age ranging from 4 to 16) explored the effectiveness of IR. The treatments comprised between one and four sessions. In two studies, IR was incorporated into a cognitive behavioral treatment of sleeping disorders (Davis et al. 2003; Fernandez et al. 2013). Fernandez et al. (2013) treated two cases (...
Emotive imagery (EI) is a technique which uses imagery for the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders and extends back to Lazarus and Abramovitz (1962). Accordingly, the therapist helps the patient to develop a story which deals with a feared object. In that story, the favorite superhero of the child helps to deal with the feared situation succes...
St-Onge et al. (2009), Simard and Nielsen (2009), and Krakow et al. (2001) investigated the effect of imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT) in children and adolescents suffering from nightmares (age ranging from 6 to 18). Sample sizes were 10 (Simard & Nielsen), 19 (Krakow et al.), and 20 participants (St-Onge et al.). All studies compared the results wi...
- Susan Schwarz, Dörte Grasmann, Franziska Schreiber, Ulrich Stangier
- 2020
Feb 1, 2021 · Mental imagery has played a role in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) throughout its history, but the past decade or so has seen an acceleration of interest in the use of mental imagery across an ever-growing range of disorders and treatment applications (Saulsman et al. 2019).
- Simon E. Blackwell
- simon.blackwell@rub.de
- 2021
Mar 27, 2017 · Mental imagery refers to the simulation or recreation of perceptual experience across different sensory modalities ( 1, 2 ). The study of mental imagery has clinical relevance because such imagery has been increasingly shown to play a key role across various psychological disorders ( 3, 4 ). The current research topic presents a diverse range ...
- David G. Pearson, Julie Krans
- 2017
Apr 1, 2010 · Images can powerfully evoke emotional states. Imagery is the hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD; American Psychiatric Association, 2000) powerful emotions can be evoked by imagery in the form of ‘flashbacks’ to the original traumatic event. Imagery also occurs in many other forms of psychopathology.
- Emily A. Holmes, Andrew Mathews
- 2010
Jan 28, 2019 · Mental imagery refers to perceptual experiences based on information stored in memory, in the absence of external sensory input, 1 commonly referred to as seeing in the “mind’s eye,” hearing in the “mind’s ear,” etc. 1 Mental imagery can be multi-sensory and occur in a variety of forms, from fleeting sensory impressions and static ...
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Oct 1, 2015 · In addition, mental imagery plays a core role in many mental health disorders and plays an increasingly important role in their treatment. We use the term ‘mental imagery’ to refer to representations and the accompanying experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus.
