Mindfulness Groups for People with Psychosis

Chadwick, Paul; Newman‐Taylor, Katherine; Abba, Nicola

doi:10.1017/s1352465805002158

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“…MBCT has established efficacy for relapse prevention and symptom reduction in recurrent depression (Teasdale et al, 2000;Helen Ma & Teasdale, 2004;Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010;Barnhofer et al, 2009), and recent evidence suggests that it can also benefit people with psychosis (Chadwick, Taylor, & Abba, 2005;Chadwick, Hughes, Russell, Russell, & Dagnan, 2009). These treatment studies add weight to the hypothesis that avoidance, as well as having a special relationship with depression, is also likely to be an important process in the pathological persistence of positive psychotic symptoms like delusions.…”

Section: Therapies Targeting Avoidancementioning

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Cognitive factors maintaining persecutory delusions in psychosis: The contribution of depression.

Vorontsova¹,

Garety²,

Freeman³

2013

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Depression is common in people with schizophrenia, but how it might directly contribute to the persistence of psychotic symptoms has rarely been tested. The key aim of the present study was to test whether depression and associated cognitive processes predict the maintenance of persecutory delusions. Three groups of participants were tested at baseline: 60 patients with persecutory delusions in the context of a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis, 30 patients with depression, and 30 nonclinical controls. They completed interviewer and self-report assessments of depression and paranoia, and measures of six cognitive factors (schematic beliefs, experiential avoidance, autobiographical memory, problem solving, rumination, worry style). The patients with persecutory delusions were then assessed again, six months later. It was found that 50% of the patients with persecutory delusions met diagnostic criteria for major depression. Cognitive processes found to be associated with depression across the groups were negative schematic beliefs about the self, experiential avoidance and rumination, but not autobiographical memory or problem solving. The severity of initial depression in patients with persecutory delusions predicted the persistence of paranoia over six months. A number of cognitive factors also predicted the persistence of persecutory delusions, including negative schematic beliefs about the self, worry, and problem-solving difficulties. In conclusion, depression is common in patients with current persecutory delusions, and it shows similar cognitive features to major depressive disorder. The results of this study indicate that depression and related processes may contribute to the maintenance of paranoia. Trials are warranted of depression-related therapeutic techniques for people with persecutory delusions.

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Section: Therapies Targeting Avoidancementioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive factors maintaining persecutory delusions in psychosis: The contribution of depression.

Vorontsova¹,

Garety²,

Freeman³

2013

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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“…Participants of mindfulness are taught how to breathe and to take conscious notice of how their body is reacting and responding and to then seek a calmness to descend. Allowing the time and space to consider acceptance of the situation is key to this process [11].…”

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Promoting Care Giving Interventions through the Dance of Caring Persons (After Pross et al.)

Hardy¹,

White²

2017

J Comm Pub Health Nurs

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Health and social care staff work in complex workplace cultures that expose them to human suffering, distress and 'dis-ease'. To defend themselves from emotional and physical pain, staffs undertake tasks, rituals, customs and practices to ameliorate discomfort. This serves as psychological and physical protection from their clients; alien to the ethos of person centred compassionate care. The dance of caring persons is a metaphor for the physical and emotional interaction of a caring relationship. Being facilitated through each of the dance steps offers one way to reignite caring professions. We outline a workshop process aimed to re-engage care staff with an intention to care. Self-care is the first step, which at an intentional, meaningful level requires a moment of mindfulness as internal bodily awareness. Noticing one's emotional state increases self-awareness and an ability to focus on the here and now, from which to relish the breadth and depth of human experience. The second step includes a moment of performance; through intentional use of non-verbal communication to welcome and engage with others. The third step of the dance is active and effective verbal communication used to purposefully enter into a caring relationship. The fourth step is critical creative discussion, following mutual reflection of what has gone before.Step five is resonance; delving deeper into understanding the emotional and body senses, exploring the words exchanged, their intention and 'true' meaning.Step six is the creation of a 'collage of caring'. Fragments of mutual learning, emotive expression and reactions (impact) are captured in the final exchange undertaken by all involved in the caring process. The dance of caring persons aims to identify the dance steps each person contributes to the context of caring. Such a compendium of caring provokes a deeper understanding of self in relation to the other, within the context of health and social care interactions.

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“…The recovery model has significant implications for the mental health system such as making greater use of self-help groups for people with psychosis (Gloucestershire Hearing Voices Groups 2004); making greater use of psychotherapy for persons experiencing psychosis (Coursey 1989;Nixon 2000;Spaulding and Nolting 2006); using alternative modalities such as meditation (Chadwick et al 2005;Johnson et al 2009); and generally encouraging mental health professionals to view psychotic experiences in relation to the meaning that such experiences may have in the context of an individual's life experiences, as opposed to merely medicating psychosis (Kruger 2000;Haley 1989;Murphy 2000;Schneider 1997).…”

Section: Psychosis Revisitedmentioning

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Psychosis and transformation: A phenomenological inquiry

Nixon

Hagen

Peters

2009

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Conventional views towards psychosis typically portray psychosis as an illness of the brain with a generally poor prognosis, even if treated with antipsychotics. However, there is a growing body of literature which presents an alternative view of psychosis, whereby people are not only able to recover from psychosis, but can also experience transformative and/or spiritual growth through psychosis. To learn more about the transformative potential of psychotic experiences, a phenomenological approach was used to research the experiences of six people who self-identified as having benefited from psychosis in a spiritual and/or transformative manner. Keys themes emerging from interviews with these six individuals included in the pre-psychosis phase "childhood foreshadowing" and "negative childhood events," and in the psychosis phase, "sudden psychosis," "psychic/intuitiveness and unusual visual experiences," "comprised day-to-day functioning," "experiences of dying," and "communication with god." Four themes made up the transformation of psychosis phase including "detachment and mindfulness," "accepting the dissolution of time into now," "embracing a spiritual pathway,"" and "re-alignment of career path." Overall, the results suggest that at least for some individuals, the experience of psychosis can be an important catalyst for spiritual and personally transformative growth.

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Mindfulness Groups for People with Psychosis

Cited by 238 publications

References 15 publications

Cognitive factors maintaining persecutory delusions in psychosis: The contribution of depression.

Cognitive factors maintaining persecutory delusions in psychosis: The contribution of depression.

Promoting Care Giving Interventions through the Dance of Caring Persons (After Pross et al.)

Psychosis and transformation: A phenomenological inquiry

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