Burnout in psychological therapists: A cross ‐sectional study investigating the role of supervisory relationship quality
ConclusionsThere is a growing need for burnout reduction interventions in mental health ‐care professionals. The present results identify a potential role for enhancing the quality of the supervisory relationship by creating more open, safe spaces for supervisees. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - February 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Judith Johnson, Catherine Corker, Daryl B. O'Connor Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, and body image pathology in female Australian models
ConclusionsNot only are female models at ‐risk of the physical effects of maintaining a clinically underweight body, but models are at greater risk of developing body image‐related psychological illnesses, experiencing emotional stressors, and facing functional impairment than their non‐model peers. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - February 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James Collison, Ellise Barnier Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

A schema mode model of repetitive negative thinking
ConclusionThese findings conceptually support the addition of a new “over‐analysing” coping mode, which serves an avoidant function through repetitive negative thinking (a central component of mood and anxiety disorders) to the schema mode model. Generalisability of results is limited through the use of a cross‐sectional design and a heterogeneous, nonclinic al sample. Further examination of the “over‐analysing” mode may enhance Schema Therapy conceptualisations, particularly in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. Moreover, emotion‐focused techniques found to be successful in Schema Therapy for per...
Source: Clinical Psychologist - January 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adele Stavropoulos, Megan Haire, Robert Brockman, Tanya Meade Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

The effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy for treating women with obesity suffering from BED: A feasibility and pilot study
ConclusionsThis study suggests that dialectical behaviour therapy ‐based skills training is efficacious not only in reducing weight and emotional eating but also in improving the body image of females with binge eating disorder. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - December 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bahareh Dastan, Sahar Afshar Zanjani, Asghar Froueddin Adl, Mojtaba Habibi Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Effects of the Mindful Self ‐Compassion programme on clinical and health psychology trainees' well‐being: A pilot study
ConclusionThe MSC programme offers a promising way to develop professional competencies and enhance the well ‐being of trainees in clinical psychology. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - December 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jos é Ramón Yela, Mª Ángeles Gómez‐Martínez, Antonio Crego, Laura Jiménez Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Supervisees' experiences of a metacommunication intervention in clinical supervision
ConclusionThis study shows promising preliminary results of the acceptability and perceived impacts of an experiential intervention involving the use of metacommunication in supervision. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - December 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fiona L. Calvert, Frank P. Deane, Jessica Barrett Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

A tale of two outcomes: Remission and exacerbation in the use of trauma ‐focused imaginal exposure for trauma‐related voice‐hearing. Key learnings to guide future practice
ConclusionsWe highlight the potential for symptom exacerbation in early sessions and consider how this might influence acceptability, including the possibility that exposure therapy may be less tolerable when clients have persecutory appraisals of their voice ‐hearing experience. We also explore the potential therapeutic importance of associations between trauma and voices, suggesting exposure therapy is particularly indicated when there is a direct link between the content of voices and the index trauma. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - November 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel M. Brand, Amy Hardy, Sarah Bendall, Neil Thomas Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of the body dysmorphic disorder ‐dimensional scale
ConclusionsOverall, the BDD ‐D appears to be a brief, reliable measure of BDD symptomology. (Source: Clinical Psychologist)
Source: Clinical Psychologist - November 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Fiona Macfarlane, Aileen Luo, Karen Moses, Angela Russell, Jacqui Cheyne, Andrea Del Pozo Bolger, Bethany M. Wootton Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research