ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Compassion-Focused Group Therapy for Treatment-Resistant OCD: Initial Evaluation Using a Multiple Baseline Design.
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- Deontological Guilt Mediates the Effects of Personality on the Symptoms of Romantic Relationship Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (ROCD).Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2024Article
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- Obsessive-compulsive existential type: a dialectical-phenomenological approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Negative self-schemas drive pathological doubt in OCD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The compassionate love for humanity scale (CLS-H-SF): psychometric properties of the Persian version.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Self-compassion and obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review.Industrial psychiatry journalReview
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Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating mental health disorder that can easily become a treatment-resistant condition. Although effective therapies exist, only about half of the patients seem to benefit from them when we consider treatment refusal, dropout rates, and residual symptoms. Thus, providing effective augmentation to standard therapies could improve existing treatments. Group compassion-focused interventions have shown promise for reducing depression, anxiety, and avoidance related to various clinical problems, but this approach has never been evaluated for OCD individuals. However, cultivating compassion for self and others seems crucial for OCD patients, given the accumulating research suggesting that fear of guilt, along with isolation and self-criticism, can strongly contribute to the development and maintenance of OCD. The primary aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the acceptability, tolerability, and effectiveness of an 8-week group compassion-focused intervention for reducing OCD symptoms, depression, fear of guilt and self-criticism, and increasing common humanity and compassionate self-reassuring skills in treatment-resistant OCD patients. Using a multiple baseline experimental design, the intervention was evaluated in a sample of OCD patients (
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