14 results on '"Pitti, Carmen"'
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2. Comorbilidad en una Muestra de Pacientes con Agorafobia: La Presencia de la Ideación Suicida
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Peñate, Wenceslao, primary, Dorta-Concepción, Laura, additional, Álvarez-Pérez, Yolanda, additional, Pitti, Carmen, additional, Villaverde, Mary, additional, and Bethencourt, Juan, additional
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- 2020
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3. Cambios en la actividad cerebral asociados a la terapia de exposición cognitivo-conductual para fobias específicas: búsqueda de los mecanismos subyacentes
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Viña Lorenzo, Conrado, primary, Herrero Fernández, Manuel, additional, Rivero, Francisco, additional, Álvarez Pérez, Yolanda, additional, Fumero Hernández, Ascensión, additional, Bethencourt Pérez, Juan M., additional, Pitti, Carmen, additional, and Peñate, Wenceslao, additional
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- 2020
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4. Efficacy of an internet-based psychological treatment for agoraphobia with minimal therapist contact.
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Peñate, Wenceslao, José Roca-Sánchez, María, Pitti, Carmen T., Luz Villaverde, María, Manuel Bethencourt, Juan, Álvarez-Pérez, Yolanda, de la Fuente, Juan, and Gracia, Ramón
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AGORAPHOBIA ,THERAPEUTICS ,COGNITIVE therapy - Abstract
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- 2017
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5. Evaluación del componente afectivo de la depresión: análisis factorial del ST/DEP revisado
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Agudelo, Diana, Carretero Dios, Hugo|||0000-0001-8822-3791, Blanco Picabia, Alfonso, Pitti, Carmen, Spielberger, Charles, and Buela Casal, Gualberto
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Factor structure ,Evaluación ,Depression ,Depresión ,Dysthymia ,Estructura factorial ,Euthymia ,Distimia ,Assessment ,Eutimia - Abstract
La depresión constituye uno de los principales problemas de salud pública, dada su alta prevalencia así como los costes que acarrean su intervención y tratamiento. Esto hace que cada vez sea más necesario identificar estrategias para su adecuada evaluación, que permitan realizar diagnósticos más precisos y útiles. No obstante, un primer obstáculo que se antepone a esta circunstancia es la falta de claridad conceptual en relación con los criterios para el diagnóstico, o más aún, con los que deben considerarse como síntomas característicos de la depresión. Esto es bastante evidente en las escalas de evaluación de la depresión, que se caracterizan por la amplia variedad de síntomas que es necesario evaluar, lo cual hace que se sobrevaloren algunas áreas frente a otras a las que se concede menor importancia en función del criterio teórico que acompañe la construcción de una escala. Así, la depresión se evalúa de acuerdo con el cuestionario que se emplea y obviamente, según el marco teórico que sustenta dicha herramienta. Esto explicaría la frecuente dificultad para identificar los síntomas comunes, al emplear varios instrumentos de evaluación y por ende, la dificultad para identificar los que podrían considerarse síntomas genuinos de la depresión. Con el objetivo de superar algunas de estas limitaciones, se presenta en este estudio el Cuestionario de Depresión Estado-Rasgo (ST/DEP), como una herramienta de gran utilidad tanto clínica como de investigación, por cuanto ofrece la posibilidad de evaluar uno de los componentes de la depresión, el componente afectivo, y ofrece dos medidas diferentes: rasgo y estado, lo cual también contribuye a diferenciar el problema de la intensidad frente a la frecuencia. Mediante un análisis factorial de ejes principales se muestra cómo el cuestionario identifica dos factores en la afectividad: la distimia (afectividad negativa) y la eutimia (afectividad positiva). La idea de medir la afectividad positiva obedece al interés por hacer más preciso el instrumento, en el sentido de que tras la inversión de la puntuación en los reactivos que miden la afectividad positiva, se puede obtener una medida de bajos niveles de afectación, aspecto que suele descuidarse en la mayoría de las escalas que solamente identifican la presencia o ausencia del factor que miden, pero que tienen dificultad cuando tratan de estimar modificaciones leves. Este elemento es de gran utilidad tanto en la clínica como en la investigación. En el aspecto clínico, por cuanto permite identificar cambios leves en la afectación, que pueden ser bastante importantes para medir la eficacia terapéutica y la remisión de los síntomas. En la investigación, porque la posibilidad de disponer de una herramienta capaz de diferenciar bajos niveles de afectación, permite hacer una valoración más precisa de la sintomatología depresiva, sobre todo cuando se trabaja con población no clínica., Depression is a main Public Health problem due to its high prevalence and to the costs for intervention and treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to identify strategies that allow an adequate assessment that would let us obtain a more precise and useful diagnosis. Nevertheless, an important obstacle for this task, is a lack of theoretical clarity in regard to diagnostic criteria or, especially, to symptoms which are relevant for depression. This fact is obvious in the scales focused on depression assessment, which have a broad variety of symptoms to assess, and it is possible to overestimate some areas or to underestimate others, related to theoretical criterions which were involved in test construction. So, depression is evaluated in accordance with the questionnaire that is used and, of course, depending of theoretical framework that supports this tool. Therefore, depression is defined in line with the criteria which evaluates it, with regard to assessment's criteria, which could explain the usual difficulty to identify common symptoms when some tools are used, which are then identified as genuine symptoms of depression. As the aim of this paper is to improve some of this Limitations, the State/Trait Depression Questionnaire (ST/DEP) is showed as an useful tool for clinical and research work. It offers an assessment of one of the component of depression, the affective one, providing two measures: State and Trait. This allows to differentiate between intensity and frequency. Main-axis factor analysis has been made and the results have shown two main factors in affectivitv: Dysthymia (negative affection) and Euthymia (positive affection). The interest on positive affection assessment aims to obtain a more precise tool. So, when scores are inverted in positive items, it is possible to obtain a measurement of low levels on affectation. The relevance of this fact is emphasized because it has been neglected in most of depression scales, that only identify presence or absence, a fact that limits the ability to estimate slight modifications. This issue is very useful at two levels: clinic and research. At a clinical level because it permits to identify slight changes in affectation, which could be important as measurement of therapeutic efficacy and of symptoms remission. In research, because it offers the possibility to dispose of one able tool to differenciate of low levels of affectation, which allow a more accurate estimation of the depression symptoms, specially when working with a nonclinical population.
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6. La validez de tratamiento del cuestionario básico de depresión. Primeros datos
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Peñate Castro, Wenceslao, Pitti, Carmen T., García, Auxiliadora, and Perestelo, Lllisbeth
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Validez de tratamiento ,Treatment validity ,Depressive sample ,Incremental validity ,Muestra de depresivos ,Validez incremental ,Cuestionario básico de depresión ,Basic questionnaire for depression - Abstract
Como parte del procedimiento de validación de una nueva medida de depresión, el Cuestionario Básico de Depresión (CBD), se presentan datos sobre su validez de tratamiento. El trabajo se Inserta dentro del concepto psicométrico más general de validez incremental, analizando en qué medida el CBD aporta elementos específicos a la evaluación de la depresión. Con un diseño transversal, se evalúo a 101 pacientes con distintos tipos de depresión (depresión mayor, trastornos adaptativos, distimia...) con el CBD y el Inventario de Depresión de Beck-ll (BDI-II). El progreso terapéutico se evalúo por medio del juicio clínico de los terapeutas y por la opinión de los propios pacientes sobre su nivel de ajuste. Los resultados mostraron como el CBD permite monitorízar el progreso terapéutico de una manera similar a como lo hace el BDI-II. La aportación del CBD a la validez de tratamiento indica que es un cuestionario que monitoriza mejor los cambios terapéuticos cuando se toman en cuenta criterios clínicos de mejora y a la opinión de los propios pacientes. Los resultados se discuten de acuerdo a la slntomatología evaluada por el CBD y su capacidad para detectar los cambios más genuinos del sufrimiento depresivo, As part of the validity procedure of a new measure for depression, the Basic Questionnaire for Depression (CBD), we provide data about its treatment validity. This study is inserted in a broader psychometric concept, incremental validity, to analyse as the CBD provides significant data about the assessment of depression. With a transversal design, 101 patients with different types of depression disorders (major depression, adaptative disorders, dysthymia...) were assessed with CBD and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II). Therapeutic progress was assessed according to clinician judgment, and patient opinions about their level of adjustment. Results pointed out that CBD allows the control of therapeutic progress as BDI-II does it. CBD provides specific data about treatment validity when both clinical improvement criteria and the self-adjustment declared by patients are taking into account. Results are discussed according to the depressive symptoms assessed by CBD and its ability to detect crucial changes in depressive suffering
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7. Agoraphobia and Nonadaptive Coping Behaviors
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Pitti, Carmen T., primary, Penate, Wenceslao, additional, Pitti-Medina, Beatriz, additional, Bethencourt, Juan M., additional, and Gracia, Ramon, additional
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- 2014
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8. Doctoragora.com: Presentation and Acceptability of a Telehealth Program for Agoraphobia Treatment
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Penate, Wenceslao, primary, Pitti, Carmen T., additional, Roca, Maria, additional, Pitti-Medina, Beatriz, additional, Villaverde, M. Luz, additional, and De La Fuente, Juan, additional
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- 2014
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9. El uso combinado de la exposición a realidad virtual en el tratamiento de la agorafobia.
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Pitti, Carmen T., Peñate, Wenceslao, de la Fuente, Juan, Bethencourt, Juan M., Roca-Sánchez, María J., Acosta, Leopoldo, Villaverde, María L., and Gracia, Ramón
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AGORAPHOBIA , *VIRTUAL reality & psychology , *PANIC disorders , *PAROXETINE , *PSYCHOTHERAPY , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
Introduction. This study compares the differential efficacy of three groups of treatments for agoraphobia: paroxetine combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy, paroxetine combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy and virtual reality exposure, and a group with only paroxetine. Methodology. 99 patients with agoraphobia were finally selected. Both combined treatment groups received 11 sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy, and one of the groups was also exposed to 4 sessions of virtual reality treatment. Treatments were applied in individual sessions once a week for 3 months. Results. The three treatment groups showed statistically significant improvements. In some measures, combined treatment groups showed greater improvements. The virtual reality exposure group showed greater improvement confronting phobic stimuli. Conclusions. Treatments combining psychopharmacological and psychological therapy showed greater efficacy. Although the use of new technologies led to greater improvement, treatment adherence problems still remain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
10. La validez de tratamiento del cuestionario básico de depresión. Primeros datos
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Peñate, Wenceslao, primary, Pitti, Carmen T., additional, García, Auxiliadora, additional, and Perestelo, Lilisbeth, additional
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- 2005
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11. The effects of a treatment based on the use of virtual reality exposure and cognitive-behavioral therapy applied to patients with agoraphobia.
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Peflate, Wenceslao, Pitti, Carmen T., Bethencourt, Juan Manuel, de la Fuente, Juan, and Gracia, Ramón
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VIRTUAL reality , *VIRTUAL reality in medicine , *VIRTUAL reality therapy , *THERAPEUTICS , *AGORAPHOBIA , *PANIC disorders - Abstract
Exposure to virtual reality phobic environments was used with patients with chronic agoraphobia. The exposure to virtual stimuli has been verified as a useful procedure in treating phobic disorders. However, there are some specific problems with agoraphobia (determining phobic stimuli, avatars, etc.). The aim of this experimental study is to test a combined treatment, virtual reality exposure and cognitive-behavioral treatment (VRET), compared with a traditional cognitive-behavioral approach (CBT), in reducing agoraphobia symptoms. Two experimental groups were used. 15 patients with chronic agoraphobia received a VRET procedure (3D), and 13 received CBT. Both groups had 11 treatment sessions. The post-treatment measurements included a brief behavioral avoidance test (BAT). Results showed a significant improvement in agoraphobia symptoms (cognition, body sensation, level of anxiety, depression) in both groups. In general, this improvement remained three months later. Also, the BAT procedure indicated the ability of most patients to deal with a phobic environment. Additionally, the VRET group showed a slight amelioration of symptoms compared with the CBT group. These data are discussed in terms of the specific difficulties of VRET with agoraphobia, and the viability of our seven virtual environments to generate an acceptable exposure to phobic stimuli. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
12. AGORAFOBIA (CON O SIN PÁNICO) Y CONDUCTAS DE AFRONTAMIENTO DESADAPTATIVAS. ESTUDIO EMPÍRICO. SEGUNDA PARTE.
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Pitti, Carmen T., Peñate, Wenceslao, and Bethencourt, Juan M.
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AGORAPHOBIA , *PANIC disorders , *AGORAPHOBIA patients , *ANXIETY , *PSYCHOLOGICAL distress , *PHOBIAS - Abstract
This paper is focused in the coping strategies used by patients with an agoraphobic disorder (AD) when they are forced to confront phobic situations. Traditionally, the coping strategies considered were those used by agoraphobia patients to reduce anxiety and psychological distress: the avoidance behavior (to avoid the phobic stimuli) and the escape behavior (when the phobic stimulus is present). Additionally, behaviors used to try to avoid negative physiological responses similar to those occurring in an anxiety crisis (interoceptive avoidance) arc also included. A fourth group of behaviors has received less attention: coping strategies that partially allow agoraphobia patients to confront and resist the presence of phobic stimuli. These are stimuli that they need to or are forced to confront. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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13. AGORAFOBIA (CON O SIN PÁNICO) Y CONDUCTAS DE AFRONTAMIENTO DESADAPTATIVAS: PRIMERA PARTE.
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Peñte, Wenceslao, Pitti, Carmen T., Bethencourt, Juan M., and Gracia, Ramén
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AGORAPHOBIA patients , *PANIC disorders , *PHOBIAS , *PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation , *SPATIAL behavior - Abstract
The article presents a study that examines the role of a type of coping strategy used by patients with agoraphobic disorders when they confront phobic stimuli. This coping strategy uses overt behaviors and thoughts which allow agoraphobic patients to resist the presence of phobic scenes. Agoraphobic disorder is considered the more complex phobia and produces the highest level of disability.
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- 2006
14. The combined use of virtual reality exposure in the treatment of agoraphobia.
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Pitti CT, Peñate W, de la Fuente J, Bethencourt JM, Roca-Sánchez MJ, Acosta L, Villaverde ML, and Gracia R
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- Adult, Combined Modality Therapy, Female, Humans, Male, Agoraphobia therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Paroxetine therapeutic use, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors therapeutic use, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
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Introduction: This study compares the differential efficacy of three groups of treatments for agoraphobia: paroxetine combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy, paroxetine combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy and virtual reality exposure, and a group with only paroxetine., Methodology: 99 patients with agoraphobia were finally selected. Both combined treatment groups received 11 sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy, and one of the groups was also exposed to 4 sessions of virtual reality treatment. Treatments were applied in individual sessions once a week for 3 months., Results: The three treatment groups showed statistically significant improvements. In some measures, combined treatment groups showed greater improvements. The virtual reality exposure group showed greater improvement confronting phobic stimuli., Conclusions: Treatments combining psychopharmacological and psychological therapy showed greater efficacy. Although the use of new technologies led to greater improvement, treatment adherence problems still remain.
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- 2015
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