SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Adult Attachment and Personal, Social, and Symptomatic Recovery From Psychosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- The association between attachment insecurity and negative symptoms in clinical and non-clinical populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Pooled it
- Correlation Between Insecure Attachment Style and Symptomatology in Patients With Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Review.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2026Pooled it
- Long-term effects of mentalization-based treatment for psychotic disorder: a 5-year follow-up of a multi-center, randomized-controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- Relationships between attachment insecurity, beliefs about the self and others, paranoia, and social functioning across the psychosis continuum.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- The Association Between Attachment Style and Symptomatic, Social, and Personal Recovery: A Comparison Between Male and Female Patients Remitted From Their First-Episode Psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The ECHO study: compassion-focused therapy for young voice hearers and their caregivers. A pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Modelling the longitudinal associations between schizotypy and aberrant salience: The role of mentalization and attachment.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2025Article
- Co-occurring eating disorder and psychosis: a lived experience case exploration with examples and suggestions for personalized integrated treatment approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Attachment and Social Functioning in Patients with a Psychosis Spectrum Disorder: A Mediation Study.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2025Article
- A good life with psychosis: rate of positive outcomes in first-episode psychosis at 10-year follow-up.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Adult Attachment and Personal Recovery in Clients With a Psychotic Disorder.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2023Article
- Long-Term Outcomes of First-Admission Psychosis: A Naturalistic 21-Year Follow-Up Study of Symptomatic, Functional and Personal Recovery and Their Baseline Predictors.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
- Attachment Dimensions predict Social Functioning in persons with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders, regardless of Symptom Severity.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2021Article
- How Attachment Styles Influence Emotional Distress and Psychiatric Symptoms Among Individuals With Schizophrenia: A Cross-Sectional Nursing Survey.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
Despite growing evidence for the role of attachment in psychosis, no quantitative review has yet been published on the relationship in this population between insecure attachment and recovery in a broad sense. We therefore used meta-analytic techniques to systematically appraise studies on the relationship between attachment and symptomatic, social and personal recovery in clients with a psychotic disorder. Using the keywords attachment, psychosis, recovery and related terms, we searched six databases: Embase, Medline Epub (OVID), Psycinfo (OVID), Cochrane Central (trials), Web of Science, and Google Scholar. This yielded 28 studies assessing the associations between adult attachment and recovery outcome in populations with a psychotic disorder. The findings indicated that insecure anxious and avoidant attachment are both associated with less symptomatic recovery (positive and general symptoms), and worse social and personal recovery outcomes in individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. The associations were stronger for social and personal recovery than for symptomatic recovery. Attachment style is a clinically relevant construct in relation to the development and course of psychosis and recovery from it. Greater attention to the relationship between attachment and the broad scope of recovery (symptomatic, social, and personal) will improve our understanding of the illness and efficacy of treatment for this population.
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