The origins of poor insight in schizophrenia are still unclear. We contrasted the changes in clinical insight, basic cognitive processes, autobiographical memory and metacognition in 63 outpatients with schizophrenia pseudo-randomly assigned to one of three cognitive remediation groups: one targeting basic cognitive processes (RECOS), a second autobiographical memory (REMAu), and a third metaco...

Abstract Objectives Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT-D) has been shown to be effective at repairing positive affect deficits in depressed individuals, but the mechanism of action underpinning these changes not empirically examined. To address this issue, secondary analyses two randomised controlled trials individuals with residual depression were conducted. Method Study ...

Past research has shown that mindfulness-based interventions increase positive affect in non-clinical populations. However, the mechanisms underlying this increase are poorly understood. On the basis of previous empirical and theoretical accounts, we hypothesized that a decreased use of disengagement coping strategies in daily life would explain the benefits of a mindfulness-based intervention ...

Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have a growing body of support in the literature and are increasingly popular for treating variety mental health disorders. The two most investigated MBIs include Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). We provide comprehensive up-to-date review reducing anxiety depression broad range clinical populations. outperformed passive c...

objective: this research investigates and compares the effects of short-term cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) and mindfulness based cognitive therapy (mbct) over psychological problems of the patients with binge eating disorder (bed). methods: among patients of sina hospital and other weight loss centers of tehran, 44 people were selected and allocated randomly in cbt (14), mbct (14) and cont...

A recent paper in the Archives of General Psychiatry confirms that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) “offers protection against relapse/recurrence on a par with that of maintenance antidepressant pharmacotherapy.” It is a tribute to the accumulated wisdom of humankind that a traditional Buddhist meditation practice going back 2500 years, which was originally designed in part to deal wi...

objective: mindfulness skills are assumed to be related with emotions. deficits in emotion ‎regulation could lead to development and persistence of mood disorders. dysthymia and double ‎depression are two chronic types of depression. this chronicity can be attributed to the one’s ‎inability to regulate his/ her mood. in this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of mindfulness-‎based cognitive...