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Social cognitive impairment is considered to be a psychopathological cornerstone in adolescent females with borderline personality disorder. The aim is to compare the social cognitive performance in adolescent females with borderline personality traits and healthy adolescent females, and to assess the social cognitive performance in relation to the...
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Contemporary relational theories consider clients' ability to move between multiple self-states and clients' ability to experience and process emotions to be two therapeutic processes inherently connected and fundamental to growth and change in psychotherapy. The current research aimed to empirically explore these theoretical assumptions by (1) exa...
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Inflexible social interaction patterns are defining features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Specific beliefs about the self and others may be activated across interaction situations, often leading to instable relationships. It may be pivotal to address these difficulties in early treatment phases, through appropriate therapist responsive...
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The Beck Cognitive Insight Scale (BCIS) is composed of two subscales, self-reflectiveness and self-certainty, assessing reflectiveness and openness to feedback, and mental flexibility. Delusions have previously been associated with low cognitive insight. The aim of this study was to determine whether changes in BCIS scores predict changes in delusi...
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Suicide deaths are a major concern in people with schizophrenia diagnoses. However, many people with such diagnoses do not attempt suicide, nor die by suicide, suggesting that some individuals are resilient to the impact of suicide triggers. This systematic literature review aimed to (1) appraise the evidence for psychological factors which confer ...
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To examine the causal beliefs about schizophrenia of non-psychiatric doctors and whether differential belief in biogenetic vs. psychosocial causes influences doctors' views about treatments and prognosis. Three hundred and five non-psychiatric doctors working in outpatient community centres completed the 'Opinions on mental disorders Questionnaire'...
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Early childhood experiences influence cognitive-emotional development, with insecure attachment predisposing to potential psychopathologies. We investigated whether narratives containing attachment-specific speech patterns shape listeners' emotional responses and social intentions. First, 149 healthy participants listened to three narratives charac...
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There is a lack of research into parenting interventions for families which include a parent experiencing psychosis or other serious mental illness (SMI). Preliminary findings highlight the potential benefits of adult mental health practitioners supporting parents experiencing SMI by using self-directed parenting interventions. This study explored ...
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Digital health has emerged in recent years as a tool to optimize care delivery and promote treatment adherence among individuals with first-episode psychosis (FEP). Recent mandates for social distancing and sheltering in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic have catapulted efforts to provide ongoing coordinated specialty care (CSC) on virtual platfor...
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Despite the central role of formulation in psychological therapy, there is limited research on how formulations are constructed in clinical practice. In Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), a formulation diagram (or CAT map) is used in transforming the client's narrative into a psychological understanding of the difficulties. The objective was to buil...
