Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
November 1, 2024
Olivia Hughes, Katherine H Shelton, Helen Penny et al.
4 citations
Parents of children with skin conditions can experience stress from the additional responsibilities of care. However, there is a lack of psychological interventions for families affected by a dermatological diagnosis. To investigate (1) whether delivering the 'Living in the Present' mindfulness curriculum to parents of children with skin conditions reduced stress and increased both...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
2024
Lindsay M Smith, Susan L. Rossell, Neil Thomas et al.
4 citations
Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), or voice-hearing, can be a prominent symptom during fluctuating mood states in bipolar disorder (BD). The current study aimed to: (i) compare AVH-related distress in BD relative to schizophrenia (SCZ), (ii) examine correlations between phenomenology and voice beliefs across each group, and (iii) explore how voice beliefs may uniquely contribute to distress...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
August 8, 2023
The effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety symptoms in people living with alopecia areata: a single-group case-series design.
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
September 25, 2020
Guy Dodgson, Ben Alderson-Day, David Smailes et al.
Abstract Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a recommended treatment for psychotic experiences, but its effectiveness has been questioned. One way of addressing this may be to tailor therapy materials to the phenomenology of specific psychotic experiences. Aim: In this study, we investigated the acceptability of a novel treatment manual for subtypes of...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
March 2019
Stephanie Louise, Susan L. Rossell, Neil Thomas
A prominent area of advancement in the psychological treatment for people with persisting psychosis has been the application of mindfulness-based therapies. Recent literature has recommended the investigation of focused mindfulness interventions for voices (auditory hallucinations) as a specific experience. To date, only mindfulness programs in group format have been examined. This...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
November 2016
Stephanie Lai, Vicki Bruce, Daniel Collerton
A previous study (Gauntlett-Gilbert and Kuipers, 2005) has suggested that distress associated with complex visual hallucinations (CVHs) in younger adults with psychosis may more strongly relate to appraisals of meaning than to the content of the hallucination. However, visual hallucinations are most commonly seen in the disorders of later life, where this relationship has not been investigated....
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
July 2016
Ana Costa, Thorsten Barnhofer
Disengaging from maladaptive thinking is an important imperative in the treatment of depression. Mindfulness training is aimed at helping patients acquire relevant skills for this purpose. It remains unclear, however, whether this practice is helpful when patients are acutely depressed. In order to investigate effects of mindfulness on symptoms and self-regulatory capacities in this group, the...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
January 2015
Lucy Garwood, Guy Dodgson, Vicki Bruce et al.
The phenomenological heterogeneity of auditory hallucinations (AHs) means individual models struggle to account for all aspects of the experience. One alternative is that distinct subtypes of AHs exist, with each requiring their own unique explanatory model and tailored cognitive behavioural intervention strategies. This exploratory study tested for the presence of one specific potential...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
May 1, 2013
Sarah A Hayes-Skelton, Jessica O. M. Graham
Background: The tendency to employ both cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness are associated with reduced trait social anxiety; however, it is unclear whether reappraisal and mindfulness are associated with social anxiety through the same mechanisms. It has been proposed that decentering, or the process of seeing thoughts or feelings as objective events in the mind rather than personally...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
September 14, 2012
Lyn Ellett
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that mindfulness can be beneficial for people with distressing psychosis. This study examined the hypothesis that for people with persecutory delusions in the absence of voices, mindfulness training would lead to reductions in conviction, distress, preoccupation and impact of paranoid beliefs, as well as anxiety and depression. Method: Two case studies are...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
March 1, 2012
Vijaya Manicavasagar, Tania Perich, Gordon Parker
Background: An appreciation of cognitive predictors of change in treatment outcome may help to better understand differential treatment outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine how rumination and mindfulness impact on treatment outcome in two group-based interventions for non-melancholic depression: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Method:...
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...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
December 13, 2010
Katharine A. Rimes, Janet Wingrove
114 citations
BACKGROUND: It is recommended that Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) instructors should undertake MBCT themselves before teaching others. AIM: To investigate the impact of MBCT (modified for stress not depression) on trainee clinical psychologists. METHOD: Twenty trainees completed questionnaires pre- and post-MBCT. RESULTS: There was a significant decrease in rumination, and increases...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
November 22, 2010
Mindfulness groups for psychosis; key issues for implementation on an inpatient unit.
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
April 7, 2010
The long-term effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a relapse prevention treatment for major depressive disorder.
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
July 1, 2009
Paul Chadwick, Stephanie Hughes, Daphne Russell et al.
The clinical literature cautions against use of meditation by people with psychosis. There is, however, evidence for acceptance-based therapy reducing relapse, and some evidence for clinical benefits of mindfulness groups for people with distressing psychosis, though no data on whether participants became more mindful. To assess feasibility of randomized evaluation of group mindfulness therapy...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
June 10, 2009
Mark Allen, Andrew Bromley, Willem Kuyken et al.
158 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a promising approach to help people who suffer recurrent depression prevent depressive relapse. However, little is known about how MBCT works. Moreover, participants' subjective experiences of MBCT as a relapse prevention treatment remain largely unstudied. AIM: This study examines participants' representations of their experience of...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
October 1, 2008
Mark A. Craigie, Clare S. Rees, Ali Marsh et al.
Abstract Mindfulness training has been proposed as a potentially important new approach for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, to date only a few studies have investigated mindfulness training for GAD. The aim of this study was to further investigate symptom change and recovery in pathological worry after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) using an...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
April 1, 1996
Barry Krakow, Robert Kellner, Dorothy Pathak et al.
An eighteen month follow-up of chronic nightmare sufferers treated with imagery rehearsal, a cognitive-behavioral method, demonstrated significant and clinically meaningful decreases in nightmare frequency. Sixty-eight percent of subjects decreased their nightmares below criteria for a “Chronic Nightmare Disorder”. Significant improvement was also noted for sleep quality and daytime anxiety....