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Improve Your Well-Being by Reducing Avoidance
“Once we change our responses to threatening internal experiences, we feel greater joy and well-being.”
Merav Gur, Ph.D. (2021). Improve Your Well-Being by Reducing Avoidance
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Selected Peer Reviewed Research
Maternal depression and the intergenerational transmission of religion
Gur M, Miller L, Warner V, Wickramaratne P, Weissman M (2005). Journal of nervous and Mental Disease, 193(5).
Mentoring improves acceptance of a community intervention for court referred adolescent boys
Gur M, Miller L (2004). Child & Adolescent Social Work, 21(6), 573-591.
An Open Pilot Study of Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Panic Disorder (IPT-PD)
Lipsitz J.D., Gur M., Miller N., Forand N., Vermes D. (2006). Journal of nervous and Mental Disease, 194(6), 440-445.
Psychopathology and disability in children with unexplained chest pain presenting to the pediatric emergency department
Lipsitz JD, Gur M, Sonnet FM, Dayan PS, Miller SZ, Brown C, Sherman B (2010). Pediatric Emergency Care 26 (11) 830-836
A randomized Trial of Interpersonal Psychotherapy vs. Supportive Psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder
Lipsitz J.D., Gur M., Miller N., Vermes D., Petkova E, Cheng, J, Miller N, Laino J, Liebowitz M, Fyer A. (2008). Depression and Anxiety, 25(6); 542-553.
A Psychological Intervention for Pediatric Chest Pain: Development and open trial
Lipsitz JD, Gur M, Albano AM, Sherman BS (2010). Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 31.
Interpersonal psychotherapy with pregnant adolescents: two pilot studies
Miller L., Gur M., Shanok A. & Weissman M. (2008). Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(7), 733-742.
Sexual maturation, depression and religion in adolescent girls
Miller L, Gur M (2002). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41(2), 206-214.
Religiousness and Sexual Responsibility in Adolescent Girls
Miller L, Gur M (2002). Journal of Adolescent Health, 31, 401-406.
Religiousness in Childhood Depressives “Grown up.”
Miller L, Weissman M, Gur M, Greenwald S (2002). Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190(2), 86-92.
Religiousness and substance use in children of opiate addicts
Miller L, Weissman M, Gur M, Adams P (2001). Journal of Substance Abuse, 13, 323-336
Noncardiac chest pain and psychopathology in children and adolescents
Lipsitz JD, Masia-Warner C, Apfel HD, Marans Z, Gur M, Dent H, Fyer AL. (2005) Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 59(3):185-8.
Behavioral and intellectual markers for schizophrenia in apparently healthy male adolescents: comment
Storch E, Galek K, Ghiglione G, Gur M, Falco L, Alia-Klein N, Fagin S (2000). American Journal of Psychiatry, 157(9), 1527-1528.