Psychological wellbeing in parents of children with Down syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis
We report a review examining the psychological wellbeing of parents of children with Down syndrome (DS) relative to that of parents of typically developing (TD) children. A systematic search identified 57 relevant studies, which were synthesised meta-analytically. Relative to their counterparts with TD children, mothers and fathers of children with DS reported higher levels of parenting stress (mothers: g = 0.57, 95% CI [0.33, 0.81]; fathers: g = 0.40, [0.24, 0.56]), depressive symptoms (mothers: g = 0.42, [0.23, 0.61]; fathers: g = 0.25, [0.02, 0.48]) and psychological distress (mothers: g = 0.45, [0.30, 0.60]; fathers: g...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: T L Rutter R P Hastings C A Murray N Enoch S Johnson C Stinton Source Type: research
The effects of loving-kindness interventions on positive and negative mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr 16;110:102433. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102433. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLoving-kindness meditations involve sending feelings of kindness and care to a series of people including oneself, loved ones, strangers, and all beings. Loving-kindness interventions (LKIs), which include knowledge and/or practice related to loving-kindness, have been gaining attention as a potential intervention for improving mental health in adults. This meta-analysis synthesized the effects of LKIs on both positive (i.e., mindfulness, compassion, positive affect) and negative (i.e., negative affect, psychological sym...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 23, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julia Petrovic Jessica Mettler Sohyun Cho Nancy L Heath Source Type: research
Modifiable parental factors associated with the mental health of youth from immigrant families in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr 9;110:102429. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102429. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParental factors play a major role in youth mental health and many youth in high-income countries have at least one overseas-born parent. It is, hence, important to understand how immigrant parenting is associated with youth mental health in high-income countries. Following PRISMA guidelines, this review sought to identify modifiable parental factors to inform parenting interventions to prevent mental health problems in youth aged 0-18 years whose parents migrated voluntarily for economic reasons from low and middle-incom...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sunita Bayyavarapu Bapuji Ashlyn Hansen Miriam H Marembo Patrick Olivier Marie Bee Hui Yap Source Type: research
Basic processes and clinical applications of mental imagery in worry: A systematic review
CONCLUSIONS: Findings support dysfunctional negative imagining and diminished positive prospective imagery in GAD. General imagining abilities remain intact, which is promising for efforts to utilise imagery in treatment. Further research is warranted to develop innovative clinical applications of imagery in treatment of GAD.PMID:38640775 | DOI:10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102427 (Source: Clinical Psychology Review)
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 19, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lauren Stavropoulos David D J Cooper Sophie M Champion Luke Keevers Jill M Newby Jessica R Grisham Source Type: research
The association between quality of therapeutic alliance and treatment outcomes in teletherapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
CONCLUSION: Very few teletherapy treatment studies were identified that initially reported on alliance-outcome associations, underlining that this is an under-researched area. The association between alliance-teletherapy outcomes in this meta-analysis was small but significant, and somewhat weaker than the alliance-outcome associations reported for in-person treatments and other online interventions. This might indicate that there are other processes at play in teletherapy that explain variance of treatment outcomes, or that the therapist (and the relationship) has less influence on the treatment outcomes than in in-person...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katie Aafjes-van Doorn Daniel S Spina Sarah J Horne Vera B ékés Source Type: research
Adjustment and homesickness in hospitalised children: A systematic review
The objectives of this review were to synthesise the qualitative and quantitative literature on psychosocial factors associated with hospital adjustment and to identify risk and protective factors that influence the adjustment process. The literature search (1980 to February 2024: CINAHL / Embase / Medline / PsychINFO and Web of Science databases) identified thirty-four studies. Poor hospital adjustment, anxiety, depression and homesickness, were reported by the majority of hospitalised children. Several demographic and psychosocial factors were identified in the quantitative synthesis to contribute to poor adjustment. Chi...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eleni Andrea Demetriou Kelsie Anne Boulton Michael Russell Bowden Adam John Guastella Source Type: research
Adjustment and homesickness in hospitalised children: A systematic review
The objectives of this review were to synthesise the qualitative and quantitative literature on psychosocial factors associated with hospital adjustment and to identify risk and protective factors that influence the adjustment process. The literature search (1980 to February 2024: CINAHL / Embase / Medline / PsychINFO and Web of Science databases) identified thirty-four studies. Poor hospital adjustment, anxiety, depression and homesickness, were reported by the majority of hospitalised children. Several demographic and psychosocial factors were identified in the quantitative synthesis to contribute to poor adjustment. Chi...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eleni Andrea Demetriou Kelsie Anne Boulton Michael Russell Bowden Adam John Guastella Source Type: research
Adjustment and homesickness in hospitalised children: A systematic review
The objectives of this review were to synthesise the qualitative and quantitative literature on psychosocial factors associated with hospital adjustment and to identify risk and protective factors that influence the adjustment process. The literature search (1980 to February 2024: CINAHL / Embase / Medline / PsychINFO and Web of Science databases) identified thirty-four studies. Poor hospital adjustment, anxiety, depression and homesickness, were reported by the majority of hospitalised children. Several demographic and psychosocial factors were identified in the quantitative synthesis to contribute to poor adjustment. Chi...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Eleni Andrea Demetriou Kelsie Anne Boulton Michael Russell Bowden Adam John Guastella Source Type: research
The role of psychologists in supporting illness-related dying and death: A systematic mixed studies review
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Feb 2;110:102393. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102393. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychologists remain underrepresented in end-of-life care, and there is limited understanding of their role among healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. This systematic mixed-studies review, prospectively registered on PROSPERO (CRD42020215775), explored the role of psychologists, and the facilitators and barriers they experience, in supporting clients with illness-related dying and death. A search of six research databases was conducted in October 2023. Fifty-one studies, mainly qualitative and from the pers...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Baby M Y Foo Louise Sharpe Josephine M Clayton Michele Wiese Rachel E Menzies Source Type: research
Examining domains of psychological flexibility and inflexibility as treatment mechanisms in acceptance and commitment therapy: A comprehensive systematic and meta-analytic review
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr 10;110:102432. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102432. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe current systematic and meta-analytic review sought to integrate a growing number of studies examining dimensions of psychological flexibility as treatment mechanisms for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Analyses of 77 records (67 unique studies; Ntotal = 9123 participants) from comprehensive searches of multiple databases suggested that ACT interventions led to reduced inflexibility (i.e., lowered global inflexibility, lack of present moment awareness, cognitive fusion, experiential avoidance, self-as-content...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jenna A Macri Ronald D Rogge Source Type: research
The role of psychologists in supporting illness-related dying and death: A systematic mixed studies review
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Feb 2;110:102393. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102393. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPsychologists remain underrepresented in end-of-life care, and there is limited understanding of their role among healthcare professionals, patients, and caregivers. This systematic mixed-studies review, prospectively registered on PROSPERO (CRD42020215775), explored the role of psychologists, and the facilitators and barriers they experience, in supporting clients with illness-related dying and death. A search of six research databases was conducted in October 2023. Fifty-one studies, mainly qualitative and from the pers...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Baby M Y Foo Louise Sharpe Josephine M Clayton Michele Wiese Rachel E Menzies Source Type: research
Examining domains of psychological flexibility and inflexibility as treatment mechanisms in acceptance and commitment therapy: A comprehensive systematic and meta-analytic review
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr 10;110:102432. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102432. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe current systematic and meta-analytic review sought to integrate a growing number of studies examining dimensions of psychological flexibility as treatment mechanisms for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Analyses of 77 records (67 unique studies; Ntotal = 9123 participants) from comprehensive searches of multiple databases suggested that ACT interventions led to reduced inflexibility (i.e., lowered global inflexibility, lack of present moment awareness, cognitive fusion, experiential avoidance, self-as-content...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jenna A Macri Ronald D Rogge Source Type: research
Cultural challenges for adapting behavioral intervention frameworks: A critical examination from a cultural psychology perspective
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr 6;110:102425. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102425. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe introduce the bias and equivalence framework to highlight how concepts, methods, and tools from cultural psychology can contribute to successful cultural adaptation and implementation of behavioral interventions. To situate our contribution, we provide a review of recent cultural adaptation research and existing frameworks. We identified 68 different frameworks that have been cited when reporting cultural adaptations and highlight three major adaptation dimensions that can be used to differentiate adaptations. Regardin...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald Fischer Yuki Bailey Megha Shankar Nadia Safaeinili Johannes A Karl Adam Daly Finley Ngarangi Johnson Taylor Winter Hitaua Arahanga-Doyle Ririwai Fox Amina Abubakar Donna Michelle Zulman Source Type: research
Cultural challenges for adapting behavioral intervention frameworks: A critical examination from a cultural psychology perspective
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr 6;110:102425. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102425. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe introduce the bias and equivalence framework to highlight how concepts, methods, and tools from cultural psychology can contribute to successful cultural adaptation and implementation of behavioral interventions. To situate our contribution, we provide a review of recent cultural adaptation research and existing frameworks. We identified 68 different frameworks that have been cited when reporting cultural adaptations and highlight three major adaptation dimensions that can be used to differentiate adaptations. Regardin...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - April 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ronald Fischer Yuki Bailey Megha Shankar Nadia Safaeinili Johannes A Karl Adam Daly Finley Ngarangi Johnson Taylor Winter Hitaua Arahanga-Doyle Ririwai Fox Amina Abubakar Donna Michelle Zulman Source Type: research
To what extent are psychological variables considered in the study of risk and protective factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviours in individuals with cancer? A systematic review of 70 years of research
Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Apr;109:102413. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102413. Epub 2024 Mar 11.ABSTRACTPsychological variables substantially shape the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs). However, it is unclear to what extent they are considered in individuals with cancer. We synthesized the quantitative research landscape concerning psychological risk/protective factors of STBs in the (psycho-) oncological context. This pre-registered review (PROSPERO-ID CRD42022331484) systematically searched the databases PubMed/Medline, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science (as well as the grey literature and prep...
Source: Clinical Psychology Review - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mareike Ernst Tamara Schwinn Judith Hirschmiller Seonaid Cleare Kathryn A Robb Elmar Br ähler R üdiger Zwerenz J örg Wiltink Rory C O'Connor Manfred E Beutel Source Type: research
