Psychosis - Phenomenology, Psychopathology and Pathophysiology
February 2, 2022
Francisco Martín-murcia, Adolfo J. Cangas
1 citation
In this chapter the value structure will be described as one of the essential existential foundations from a phenomenological perspective. Psychosis could be understood as the result of structural modifications of the self in anchoring the lifeworld. These modifications would mainly be due to failure in the construction of intersubjectivity and therefore of the common sense or basic intuitive...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
October 11, 2018
Jesús de la Fuente, Israel Mañas Mañas, Clemente Franco et al.
42 citations
The purpose of this research was to verify, in a group of psychology students, whether mindfulness training in conjunction with the individual's level of self-regulation behavior would produce a change in the use of coping strategies. A total of 38 students participated in this study, with one experimental group and one control group, in a randomized controlled trial. Observation of the...
World Psychiatry
June 1, 2012
Giovanni Stanghellini, Álvaro I Langer, Alessandra Ambrosini et al.
In this study, we asked people from two samples (a clinical one, consisting of patients with schizophrenia, and a non-clinical one, including university students) to complete the Revised Hallucination Scale (RHS) as a self-questionnaire. When the participants responded positively to an item, they were encouraged to provide further detailed descriptions (i.e., examples of their own experiences)...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
2012
Álvaro I Langer, Adolfo J. Cangas, Estela Salcedo et al.
There are already several existing studies that show the effectiveness of mindfulness-based approaches in varying types of disorders. Only a few studies, however, have analyzed the effectiveness of this intervention in psychosis, and without finding, up to now, significant differences from the control group. The aim of this study is two-fold: to replicate previous studies, and to focus on...
International Journal of Knowledge Society Research
2011
Clemente Franco, Israel Mañas Mañas, Adolfo J. Cangas et al.
70 citations
This study analyzes the effects of a mindfulness program on a group of students in the first year of Compulsory Secondary Education from three public schools. A total of 61 students participated. A group comparison design (randomized controlled trial) with pretest-posttest measurement was used on an experimental and a control group. The statistical analyses show a significant improvement of...