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Frederick Aardema

Frederick Aardema

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
4197
World Ranking
9962
National Ranking
691

Overview

Frederick Aardema is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada and specializes primarily in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Their research spans 76 publications centered on psychological topics, including 55 in clinical psychology and 21 in experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional areas of study encompass cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry and mental health.

Aardema's work concentrates on several main topics, notably obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, which feature in 54 of their publications. Other research themes include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment approaches, and cognitive processes, with 40 publications addressing these areas. The scientist also explores body image and dysmorphia studies (24 publications), eating disorders and behaviors (14 publications), and sexuality, behavior, and technology (8 publications). Their interest extends to the psychology of moral and emotional judgment and autism spectrum disorder research as well.

The frequent publication venues chosen by Aardema reflect their areas of expertise. The top journals include the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, with seven publications, and Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, with six. Other venues include the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry and the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, each with two publications, as well as Current Psychology, also featuring two contributions.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Frederick Aardema include:

  • COVID-19, obsessive-compulsive disorder and invisible life forms that threaten the self (2020, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders)
  • Development and validation of the multidimensional version of the fear of self questionnaire: Corrupted, culpable and malformed feared possible selves in obsessive-compulsive and body-dysmorphic symptoms (2021, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)
  • The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on specific symptom dimensions and severity in OCD: A comparison before and during COVID-19 in the context of stress responses (2021, Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders)

Frequent co-authors with whom Aardema has collaborated include Shiu F. Wong, Kieron O'Connor, Adam S. Radomsky, Vahid Khosravani, and Jean-Sébastien Audet, reflecting recurring research partnerships across multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Intrusive thoughts, obsessions, and appraisals in obsessive–compulsive disorder: A critical review

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O'Connor;Frederick Aardema

  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders

    Kieron O'Connor;Frederick Aardema;Marie-Claude Pélissier

  • The Menace Within: Obsessions and the Self

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron O'Connor

  • The specificity of belief domains in obsessive–compulsive symptom subtypes

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O’Connor;Frederick Aardema;Christo Todorov

  • Virtual reality induces dissociation and lowers sense of presence in objective reality.

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron O'Connor;Sophie Côté;Annie Taillon

  • Inferential confusion in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the inferential confusion questionnaire.

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron P. O’Connor;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;André Marchand

  • Fear of self and obsessionality: Development and validation of the Fear of Self Questionnaire

    Frederick Aardema;Richard Moulding;Richard Moulding;Adam S. Radomsky;Guy Doron

  • Evaluation of an inference-based approach to treating obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    K P O'Connor;F Aardema;D Bouthillier;S Fournier

  • The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on specific symptom dimensions and severity in OCD: A comparison before and during COVID-19 in the context of stress responses.

    Vahid Khosravani;Frederick Aardema;Seyed Mehdi Samimi Ardestani;Farangis Sharifi Bastan

  • Repugnant obsessions: a review of the phenomenology, theoretical models, and treatment of sexual and aggressive obsessional themes in OCD

    Richard Moulding;Frederick Aardema;Kieron P. O'Connor

  • Treating delusional disorder: a comparison of cognitive-behavioural therapy and attention placebo control.

    Kieron O'Connor;Emmanuel Stip;Marie-Claude Pélissier;Frederick Aardema

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy and medication in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    K. P. O'Connor;F. Aardema;S. Robillard;S. Guay

  • Fear of Self and Unacceptable Thoughts in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

    Gabriele Melli;Frederick Aardema;Richard Moulding

  • The imagination: cognitive, pre-cognitive, and meta-cognitive aspects.

    Kieron P. O’Connor;Frederick Aardema

  • Seeing White Bears That Are Not There: Inference Processes in Obsessions

    Frederick Aardema;Kieron O'Connor

  • Intrusions related to obsessive‐compulsive disorder: a question of content or context?

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O'Connor;Frederick Aardema

  • An Inference-Based Approach to Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

    Kieron O'Connor;Natalia Koszegi;Frederick Aardema;Jan van Niekerk

  • The Expanded Version of the Inferential Confusion Questionnaire: Further Development and Validation in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples

    Frederick Aardema;Frederick Aardema;Kevin D. Wu;Yves Careau;Kieron O’Connor

  • Imaginative, dissociative, and schizotypal processes in obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

    Frederick Aardema;Frederick Aardema;Kevin D. Wu

  • The inference-based approach to obsessive-compulsive disorder: A comprehensive review of its etiological model, treatment efficacy, and model of change

    Dominic Julien;Kieron O’Connor;Frederick Aardema

  • Intrusivethoughts,obsessions,andappraisalsinobsessive-compulsive disorder: A critical review

    Dominic Julien;Kieron P. O'Connor;Frederick Aardema

Frequent Co-Authors

Kieron O'Connor
Kieron O'Connor University of Montreal
Richard Moulding
Richard Moulding Deakin University
Adam S. Radomsky
Adam S. Radomsky Concordia University
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp University of Amsterdam
Yasser Khazaal
Yasser Khazaal University of Lausanne
Steffen Moritz
Steffen Moritz University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Stéphane Guay
Stéphane Guay University of Montreal
Kurt Hahlweg
Kurt Hahlweg Technische Universität Braunschweig
Marie-France Marin
Marie-France Marin University of Quebec at Montreal
Mark H. Freeston
Mark H. Freeston Newcastle University

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