Can Paranoid Thoughts be Reduced by Targeting Negative Emotions and Self-Esteem? An Experimental Investigation of a Brief Compassion-Focused Intervention

Lincoln, Tania M.; Hohenhaus, Felicitas; Hartmann, Maike M.

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“…Focusing on the experience and development of compassion has been found to reduce depression, anxiety and self-criticism in people presenting to a community mental health team [15], in people with long term mental health problems [16], and people in a high security psychiatric setting [17]. CFT has been shown to be helpful for people with psychosis [18,19] and can significantly reduce paranoid ideation [20] and emotional difficulties for people with personality disorder difficulties [20]. Ashworth et al [21] found CFT to be a valuable addition to standard interventions in helping people with acquired brain injury.…”

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Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Gilbert

McEwan²,

Catarino³

et al. 2014

J Depress Anxiety

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Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Gilbert

McEwan²,

Catarino³

et al. 2014

J Depress Anxiety

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“…In one study, following a negative mood induction, participants generating a compassion-focused image had significantly lower levels of negative emotion, higher self-esteem and fewer paranoid thoughts in comparison to participants using a neutral image (Lincoln et al, 2013). The authors found that the effect of paranoid thoughts was mediated by reduced negative emotions, not increased self-esteem.…”

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“…Laboratory-based research has experimentally assessed the impact of brief selfcompassion interventions immediately following a difficult experience (Adams & Leary, 2007;Diedrich et al, 2014;Lincoln et al, 2013). In one study, following a negative mood induction, participants generating a compassion-focused image had significantly lower levels of negative emotion, higher self-esteem and fewer paranoid thoughts in comparison to participants using a neutral image (Lincoln et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a laboratory-based negative mood induction, participants were asked to generate either a compassionfocused image or a neutral one. In comparison to participants using a neutral image, those who used the compassion-focused image had significantly lower levels of negative emotion, higher self-esteem and fewer paranoid thoughts (Lincoln et al, 2013). Self-compassion inductions have been shown to reduce depressed mood compared to a control (Deidrich et al, 2014) and reduce distress in restrictive eaters, leading to healthy changes in eating behaviour (Adams & Leary, 2007).…”

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Therapist competencies necessary for the delivery of compassion‐focused therapy: A Delphi study

2016

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Objectives Compassion‐focused therapy (CFT) has shown promising results for a range of clinical presentations. This study explored the therapeutic competencies required to deliver CFT and organized these into a coherent framework. Design The Delphi method was used to explore and refine competencies for delivering CFT in three rounds of data collection. Methods The first round involved interviews with 12 experts in CFT. Data were analysed using template analysis to generate a draft competency framework. The main competencies were used to create a survey for rounds two and three involving CFT experts and practitioners. Data collected from the surveys were used to refine the competencies. Results The CFT competency framework (CFT‐CF) that was produced comprised 25 main competencies within six key areas of competence. The areas were as follows: competencies in creating safeness, meta‐skills, non‐phase‐specific skills, phase‐specific skills, knowledge and understanding and use of supervision. The main competencies included several subcompetencies specifying knowledge, skills and attributes needed to demonstrate the main competence. Overall, there was consensus on 14 competencies and 20 competencies exceeded an 80% agreement level. Conclusions Some of the CFT competencies overlapped with existing therapies, whilst others were specific to CFT. The CFT‐CF provides useful guidance for clinicians, supervisors and training programmes. Further research could develop the CFT‐CF into a therapist rating scale in order to measure the outcome of training and to assess treatment fidelity in clinical trials. Practitioner points The compassion‐focused therapy competency framework (CFT‐CF) identifies therapeutic competencies that overlap with existing treatments as well as those specific to compassion‐focused therapy (CFT). The CFT‐CF builds guidance for the competencies required to deliver CFT in a range of clinical settings. The CFT‐CF provides guidance for those training CFT therapists. The CFT‐CF could be used as a basis to develop a therapist rating scale.

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“…A recent line of intervention research has thus begun to train patients to collect more information and is producing promising effects on various dimensions of delusions (Moritz, Veckenstedt, Randjbar, von Vitzthum, & Woodward, 2011;Waller, Freeman, Jolley, Dunn, & Garety, 2011). Other studies have begun to focus on emotional factors relevant to delusions by working with worry (Foster, Startup, Potts, & Freeman, 2010), emotion regulation (Lincoln, Hohenhaus, & Hartmann, 2013), and distress associated with delusions (Hepworth, Startup, & Freeman, 2011). However, these are pilot trials and more work is required in this domain.…”

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Psychosis

Lincoln¹,

Beck²

2013

The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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The view that psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations lie on a continuum with normal experiences and are explicable by normal psychological processes has provided a basis for adapting cognitive interventions to the treatment of psychosis. To date, the efficacy of cognitive behavioral interventions for psychosis has been demonstrated in approximately 30 intervention trials of differing quality and focus. This introduction to using cognitive behavioral therapy for key psychotic symptoms covers interventions for building rapport, developing and working with a shared case formulation, enhancing patients' use of coping strategies for disabling symptoms, using cognitive strategies for working with delusions and hallucinations, cognitive restructuring of distressing and dysfunctional beliefs about the self and others, as well as strategies for preventing relapse. Case examples are provided for each type of intervention.

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Can Paranoid Thoughts be Reduced by Targeting Negative Emotions and Self-Esteem? An Experimental Investigation of a Brief Compassion-Focused Intervention

Cited by 90 publications

References 52 publications

Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Fears of Compassion in a Depressed Population Implication for Psychotherapy

Therapist competencies necessary for the delivery of compassion‐focused therapy: A Delphi study

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