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Idan M. Aderka

Idan M. Aderka

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
5979
World Ranking
8891
National Ranking
95

Overview

Idan M. Aderka is a researcher affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel, specializing primarily in the field of psychology. Their scholarly work spans across several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and applied psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, perfectionism, procrastination, anxiety studies, digital mental health interventions, psychotherapy techniques and applications, as well as neuroscience and music perception.

Aderka has contributed extensively to a number of academic journals, with frequent publications in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Behavior Therapy, Clinical Psychology Review, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Some recent noteworthy publications include:

  • A meta-analysis of sudden gains in psychotherapy: Outcome and moderators, 2020, Clinical Psychology Review
  • Out of Sync: Nonverbal Synchrony in Social Anxiety Disorder, 2020, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Emotions in social anxiety disorder: A review, 2023, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Biased distance estimation in social anxiety disorder: A new avenue for understanding avoidance behavior, 2020, Depression and Anxiety
  • A Revised Theory of Sudden Gains in Psychological Treatments, 2021, Behaviour Research and Therapy

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Aderka include Roni Oren-Yagoda, Jonathan G. Shalom, Naama Rozen, Maya Asher, and Asher Y. Strauss.

Best Publications

  • Psychometric properties of the CES-D-10 in a psychiatric sample.

    Thröstur Björgvinsson;Sarah J. Kertz;Joe S. Bigda-Peyton;Katrina L. McCoy

  • Gender differences in social anxiety disorder: A review.

    Maya Asher;Anu Asnaani;Idan M. Aderka

  • Functional impairment in social anxiety disorder

    Idan M. Aderka;Idan M. Aderka;Stefan G. Hofmann;Angela Nickerson;Angela Nickerson;Haggai Hermesh

  • Sudden gains during psychological treatments of anxiety and depression: a meta-analysis.

    Idan M. Aderka;Angela Nickerson;Hans Jakob Bøe;Stefan G. Hofmann

  • Treating Prolonged Grief Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Richard A. Bryant;Lucy Kenny;Amy Joscelyne;Natasha Rawson

  • Prolonged exposure versus dynamic therapy for adolescent PTSD: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

    Eva Gilboa-Schechtman;Edna B. Foa;Naama Shafran;Idan M. Aderka

  • Social anxiety and internet use - A meta-analysis

    Shiri Prizant-Passal;Tomer Shechner;Idan M. Aderka

  • Age of onset in obsessive-compulsive disorder: admixture analysis with a large sample

    G.E. Anholt;I.M. Aderka;A.J.L.M. van Balkom;J.H. Smit

  • Gender differences in social anxiety disorder.

    Maya Asher;Idan M. Aderka

  • Social rank and affiliation in social anxiety disorder.

    Ora Weisman;Idan M. Aderka;Sofi Marom;Haggai Hermesh

  • The impacts of parental loss and adverse parenting on mental health: Findings from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication.

    Angela Nickerson;Richard A. Bryant;Idan M. Aderka;Devon E. Hinton

  • Discrepancies between implicit and explicit self-esteem among adolescents with social anxiety disorder

    Franziska Schreiber;Christiane Bohn;Idan M. Aderka;Ulrich Stangier

  • Longitudinal associations between post-traumatic distress and depressive symptoms following a traumatic event: a test of three models.

    I. Schindel-Allon;I. M. Aderka;G. Shahar;M. Stein

  • The roles of the social rank and attachment systems in social anxiety

    Idan M. Aderka;Ora Weisman;Golan Shahar;Eva Gilboa-Schechtman

  • The Child PTSD Symptom Scale: psychometric properties in female adolescent sexual assault survivors.

    Seth J. Gillihan;Idan M. Aderka;Phoebe H. Conklin;Sandra Capaldi

  • The impact of depression on the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from a 5-year follow-up.

    Gideon E. Anholt;Gideon E. Anholt;Idan M. Aderka;Anton J.L.M. van Balkom;Johannes H. Smit

  • Factors affecting treatment efficacy in social phobia: the use of video feedback and individual vs. group formats.

    Idan M. Aderka

  • A meta-analysis of sudden gains in psychotherapy: Outcome and moderators.

    Jonathan G. Shalom;Idan M. Aderka

  • Impact of depression on treatment effectiveness and gains maintenance in social phobia: a naturalistic study of cognitive behavior group therapy

    Sofi Marom;Eva Gilboa-Schechtman;Idan M. Aderka;Abraham Weizman

  • Differences between early and late drop-outs from treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder

    I.M. Aderka;G.E. Anholt;G.E. Anholt;A.J.L.M. van Balkom;J.H. Smit

  • Direction of influence between posttraumatic and depressive symptoms during prolonged exposure therapy among children and adolescents.

    Idan M. Aderka;Edna B. Foa;Edna Applebaum;Naama Shafran

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Gilboa-Schechtman
Eva Gilboa-Schechtman Bar-Ilan University
Stefan G. Hofmann
Stefan G. Hofmann Philipp University of Marburg
Haggai Hermesh
Haggai Hermesh Tel Aviv University
Angela Nickerson
Angela Nickerson University of New South Wales
Edna B. Foa
Edna B. Foa University of Pennsylvania
Thröstur Björgvinsson
Thröstur Björgvinsson Harvard University
Richard A. Bryant
Richard A. Bryant University of New South Wales
Ulrich Stangier
Ulrich Stangier Goethe University Frankfurt
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University

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