After an 8-session mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program for people with chronic headaches, the negative impact of pain on quality of life, pain catastrophizing, and depression all decreased significantly, while mindfulness skills and self-compassion increased. The therapy is a brief psychological intervention that can be implemented in general practitioners' offices or headache clinics.
A brief mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) programme was tested in a small pilot study with individuals who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) and engage in non-suicidal self-injury. After the programme, participants showed reductions in self-injury frequency and improvements in related psychological symptoms. The findings suggest that a shorter MBCT intervention may be feasible and helpful for this population, but the uncontrolled pre-post design limits causal conclusions.
A nine-session mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) program for 91 mental health professionals (average age 44.5 years) significantly improved mindfulness skills—especially nonjudgment, mindful action, and observation—and adaptive emotion regulation strategies such as positive reinterpretation and acceptance. Impulsivity did not decrease directly, but at post-test it showed significant negative correlations with mindful action and description. Observation skills correlated positively with adaptive strategies like perspective taking and positive reappraisal. These improvements helped reduce negative emotional states and supported more effective coping with professional challenges.
A brief, group-based mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program tailored to reduce non-suicidal self-injury (MBCT-NSSI) was evaluated in outpatients with borderline personality disorder and recent NSSI. Among 50 completers, NSSI frequency, depressive symptoms, hopelessness, impulsivity, and maladaptive emotion regulation significantly decreased, while mindfulness, self-compassion, and self-esteem improved. These changes occurred during the intervention phase, not during a waiting-list period, suggesting treatment-specific effects. Dissociative symptoms showed a non-significant trend toward improvement. Higher impulsivity, maladaptive regulation, and higher self-compassion predicted dropout among eligible patients, whereas fewer comorbid diagnoses predicted lower treatment retention. The authors conclude MBCT-NSSI may be a feasible and effective adjunctive intervention.