A Pilot Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mindful Self‐Compassion Program

Neff, Kristin D.; Germer, Christopher K.

doi:10.1002/jclp.21923

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“…Although the results of the present study suggest that self-compassion is a rather stable trait with stability coefficients of about .80, an increasing number of intervention studies in clinical and subclinical populations (Albertson et al, 2014;Held and Owens, 2015;Jazaieri et al, 2014;Neff and Germer, 2012;Shahar et al, 2012;Shapira and Mongrain, 2010) show that fostering a self-compassionate attitude is possible. However, there is still a lack of research regarding the long-term stability of such changes.…”

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The relationship of self-compassion and depression: Cross-lagged panel analyses in depressed patients after outpatient therapy

Krieger

Berger

Holtforth

2016

Journal of Affective Disorders

117

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The relationship of self-compassion and depression: Cross-lagged panel analyses in depressed patients after outpatient therapy

Krieger

Berger

Holtforth

2016

Journal of Affective Disorders

117

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“…Additional elements of Affect were exploration of emotions in an attitude of acceptance and care, a guided meditation that contrasts empathy and compassion and teaches participants how to transform an empathic response into a loving and compassionate response when confronted with the suffering of others (23), forgiveness meditation, and development of self-compassion (91). Thus, all exercises focused on developing an accepting, kind, and compassionate stance toward oneself and others.…”

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Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training

Valk¹,

Bernhardt²,

Trautwein³

et al. 2017

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Although neuroscientific research has revealed experience-dependent brain changes across the life span in sensory, motor, and cognitive domains, plasticity relating to social capacities remains largely unknown. To investigate whether the targeted mental training of different cognitive and social skills can induce specific changes in brain morphology, we collected longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data throughout a 9-month mental training intervention from a large sample of adults between 20 and 55 years of age. By means of various daily mental exercises and weekly instructed group sessions, training protocols specifically addressed three functional domains: (i) mindfulness-based attention and interoception, (ii) socio-affective skills (compassion, dealing with difficult emotions, and prosocial motivation), and (iii) socio-cognitive skills (cognitive perspective-taking on self and others and metacognition). MRIbased cortical thickness analyses, contrasting the different training modules against each other, indicated spatially diverging changes in cortical morphology. Training of present-moment focused attention mostly led to increases in cortical thickness in prefrontal regions, socio-affective training induced plasticity in frontoinsular regions, and sociocognitive training included change in inferior frontal and lateral temporal cortices. Module-specific structural brain changes correlated with training-induced behavioral improvements in the same individuals in domain-specific measures of attention, compassion, and cognitive perspective-taking, respectively, and overlapped with task-relevant functional networks. Our longitudinal findings indicate structural plasticity in well-known socio-affective and socio-cognitive brain networks in healthy adults based on targeted short daily mental practices. These findings could promote the development of evidence-based mental training interventions in clinical, educational, and corporate settings aimed at cultivating social intelligence, prosocial motivation, and cooperation.

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“…Psychotherapeutic approaches promoting self-compassion (e.g. Mindful Self-Compassion; Neff & Germer, 2013) might be helpful for DDNOS patients to cope with the aversiveness of self-perception. Moreover, body therapies such as sensori-motor psychotherapy (Ogden, Minton, & Pain, 2006) or body-mentalization (Spaans, Veselka, Luyten, & Bühring, 2009) might enable DDNOS patients to establish feelings of safety concerning the self and might be useful to overcome self-related avoidance in DDNOS patients.…”

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The enemy in the mirror: self-perception-induced stress results in dissociation of psychological and physiological responses in patients with dissociative disorder

Schäflein

Sattel

Schmidt

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Patients suffering from dissociative disorders (DD) are characterized by an avoidance of aversive stimuli. Clinical experience has shown that DD patients typically avoid the confrontation with their own faces in a mirror (CFM). Objective: To investigate potential CFM-associated self-reported and psychophysiological stress reactions of DD patients, which most likely inform on the still unknown pathophysiology of dysfunctional self-perception in DD. Method: Eighteen DD patients and 18 healthy controls (HCs) underwent CFM. They were assessed for CFM-induced subjective self-reported stress, acute dissociative symptoms and sympathetic and parasympathetic drive using impedance cardiography. Results: DD patients experienced more subjective stress and acute dissociation than HCs upon CFM. Their psychological stress response did not activate the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. Conclusions: In DD patients, CFM constitutes serious self-reported stress and is associated with a blunted autonomic reactivity. Therapeutic approaches promoting self-perception and self-compassion, in particular by using CFM, might serve as goal-oriented diagnostic and therapeutic tools in DD.

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A Pilot Study and Randomized Controlled Trial of the Mindful Self‐Compassion Program

Abstract: The MSC program appears to be effective at enhancing self-compassion, mindfulness, and wellbeing.

Cited by 1,640 publications

References 64 publications

The relationship of self-compassion and depression: Cross-lagged panel analyses in depressed patients after outpatient therapy

The relationship of self-compassion and depression: Cross-lagged panel analyses in depressed patients after outpatient therapy

Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training

The enemy in the mirror: self-perception-induced stress results in dissociation of psychological and physiological responses in patients with dissociative disorder

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