Jordan P Davis, Eric R Pedersen, Brian Borsari, Sarah Bowen, Jason E Owen, Angeles Sedano, Denise D Tran, Shaddy Saba, Reagan E Fitzke, Joannalyn Delacruz, Liv Canning
{"title":"Effects of a mobile mindfulness smartphone app on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and alcohol use problems for veterans: A pilot randomized controlled trial.","authors":"Jordan P Davis, Eric R Pedersen, Brian Borsari, Sarah Bowen, Jason E Owen, Angeles Sedano, Denise D Tran, Shaddy Saba, Reagan E Fitzke, Joannalyn Delacruz, Liv Canning","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000940","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000940","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Veterans returning from deployment have high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and co-occurring alcohol use disorder (AUD). Current treatments for PTSD and AUD report high dropout rates, and many veterans report alcohol misuse to cope with symptoms of PTSD. The present study is a pilot randomized controlled trial in which veterans (N = 201) were randomized to receive a mobile mindfulness-based intervention enhanced with brief alcohol intervention content (Mind Guide) or an active stress management program.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>To be eligible for the study, veterans had to have served after September 11, 2001 (post-9/11 veteran) and screen positive for PTSD and AUD. All participants were asked to complete a baseline and four monthly follow-up assessments (two during treatment phase and two posttreatment phase). Primary outcomes were PTSD symptoms, frequency of alcohol use, and alcohol use consequences.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Engagement with Mind Guide was excellent (averages of over 31 logins and 5 hr of app usage). Those assigned to Mind Guide showed significant reductions in PTSD symptoms (d = -0.36; 16-week follow-up). No differences emerged for frequency of alcohol use (d = -0.12; 16-week follow-up) or consequences (d = -0.12; 16-week follow-up).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Mind Guide may be a valuable adjunct to more intensive in-person PTSD treatment by facilitating interest in services, integration into care, and/or sustainment of posttreatment improvements. Further development of Mind Guide may enhance efficacy at reducing alcohol use and consequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"93 2","pages":"96-109"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12101609/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143364287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinyao Zhang, Simon B Goldberg, Scott A Baldwin, Michael J Tanana, Lauren M Weitzman, Shrikanth S Narayanan, David C Atkins, Zac E Imel
{"title":"Association of machine-learning-rated supportive counseling skills with psychotherapy outcome.","authors":"Xinyao Zhang, Simon B Goldberg, Scott A Baldwin, Michael J Tanana, Lauren M Weitzman, Shrikanth S Narayanan, David C Atkins, Zac E Imel","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000935","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000935","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study applied a machine-learning-based skill assessment system to investigate the association between supportive counseling skills (empathy, open questions, and reflections) and treatment outcomes. We hypothesized that higher empathy and higher use of open questions and reflections would be associated with greater symptom reduction.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used a data set with 2,974 sessions, 610 clients, and 48 therapists collected from a university counseling center, which included 845,953 rated therapist statements. Client outcome was routinely monitored by the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms Instruments. Therapists' skills were measured via computer by a bidirectional-long-short-term-memory-based system that rated use of supportive counseling skills. We used multilevel modeling to separate the between-therapist and the within-therapist associations of the skills and outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Use of open questions and reflections was associated with client symptom reduction between therapists but not within therapists. We did not find significant associations between therapist empathy and client symptom reduction but found that empathy was negatively associated with clients' baseline symptom level within therapists.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Therapist exploration of clients' experience and expression of understanding may be important skills that are associated with clients' better outcomes. This study highlights the importance of support counseling skills, as well as the potential of machine-learning-based measures in psychotherapy research. We discuss the limitations of the study, including the limitations related to the speaker recognition system and potential reasons for the lack of association between empathy and client outcome. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"93 2","pages":"110-119"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11804870/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143364962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robin Anno Wester, Tobias Koch, Fabian Münch, Charles Driver, Wolfgang Lutz, Julian Rubel
{"title":"In search of lost time: Discrete- versus continuous-time models of working alliance and symptom severity.","authors":"Robin Anno Wester, Tobias Koch, Fabian Münch, Charles Driver, Wolfgang Lutz, Julian Rubel","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The therapeutic alliance is one of the most stable predictors of symptom burden over the course of therapy. So far, this effect has only been examined on the basis of sessions. Continuous-time models (CTM) allow this relationship to be modeled as a continuous process in which the actual time interval between measurements is considered. The aim of the present study was to compare the fit of discrete-time models (DTM) of the alliance-symptom relationship with CTM using different time variables (sessions vs. actual time interval).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data from 1,413 patients at a university psychotherapy outpatient clinic were analyzed. The alliance and symptom burden were assessed each session with the Bernese Session Report and the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-Short-Form, respectively. Different DTM and CTM were estimated using the R-package ctsem and compared in their fit via the Akaike information criterion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CTMs with session as the time unit fitted the data best. Significant negative within-person effects of alliance and symptom burden were found. These effects showed a significant positive correlation, implying that individuals with a stronger effect of the alliance on symptom severity also showed a stronger effect of symptom severity on the alliance.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>When modeling the relationship of symptom severity and alliance, it seems to be of more importance to capture the fact that a session occurred than to capture the exact time intervals between sessions. Future studies should examine this finding for other psychotherapeutic factors. Interpersonal factors might explain the positive association of the reciprocal alliance-symptom effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"93 1","pages":"27-39"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abagail E Ciriegio, Abigail E Pine, David A Cole, Laura G McKee, Rex Forehand, Bruce E Compas
{"title":"Mediators of a randomized controlled trial of a preventive intervention for youth of parents with depressive disorders.","authors":"Abagail E Ciriegio, Abigail E Pine, David A Cole, Laura G McKee, Rex Forehand, Bruce E Compas","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000928","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000928","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The present study assessed two theory-driven mediators of the effects of a family group cognitive-behavioral (FGCB) preventive intervention for youth of parents with a history of major depressive disorder (MDD) or dysthymia on long-term youth psychopathology symptoms and diagnoses.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Sample included 180 parents (<i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 41.9, 89% female, 82% White, non-Hispanic) and one of their children/adolescents ages 9-15 years (<i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 11.4, 49% female, 74% White, non-Hispanic). Changes in the hypothesized mediators, observations of positive parenting (Iowa Family Interaction Rating Scales) and youth secondary control coping (SCC) skills (Responses to Stress Questionnaire), were assessed at 6 months. Changes in youth psychopathology symptoms were assessed on the Child Behavior Checklist and Youth Self-Report at 18- and 24-month follow-ups and MDD diagnoses with the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia at 12 and 24 months.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Changes in youth SCC skills (e.g., acceptance, reappraisal) after the intervention mediated the effects of the FGCB program on changes in youth internalizing and externalizing symptoms at 18- and 24-month follow-ups. Effects for changes in positive parenting behaviors as a mediator were more limited. SCC skills were further shown to mediate the effects of the FGCB intervention on MDD diagnoses from 12 to 24 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study provides clear and strong evidence that changes in youth SCC skills mediated the long-term effects of preventive intervention for families of depressed parents. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"93 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11934267/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Franziska Lechner-Meichsner, Mariken Spuij, Paul A Boelen
{"title":"Sudden gains in the treatment of children and adolescents with prolonged grief.","authors":"Franziska Lechner-Meichsner, Mariken Spuij, Paul A Boelen","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000932","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000932","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Sudden gains describe large and stable reductions in symptoms between two consecutive treatment sessions and have not yet been investigated in prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a new disorder in the 11th edition of the <i>International Classification of Diseases</i> and text revision of the fifth edition of the <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</i> characterized by separation distress and accompanying symptoms beyond 6 months of bereavement. The study aimed to examine the occurrence of sudden gains and their relation to treatment outcome and content during cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and supportive counseling for children and adolescents with PGD symptoms.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We used data from 118 patients (50% female; age: <i>M</i> = 12.93, <i>SD</i> = 2.81) who were randomized to receive either nine individual sessions of CBT or nondirective supportive counseling. Session-by-session PGD symptoms were assessed using the Grief Checklist. We identified sudden gains using the original criteria by Tang and DeRubeis (1999) and compared treatment outcomes between sudden gainers and nonsudden gainers using linear mixed models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Nine patients (7.63%) experienced a total of 10 sudden gains. Most sudden gains occurred during CBT. We found no differences between sudden gainers and nonsudden gainers regarding PGD symptoms, posttraumatic stress, and depressive symptoms, but problem behaviors declined toward the follow-up assessments in sudden gainers.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Sudden gains seem to be a rare event with limited clinical relevance in the treatment of PGD symptoms in children and adolescents. Results imply future research into predictors of sudden gains and other forms of symptom change during PGD treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"93 1","pages":"14-26"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren Brookman-Frazee, Teresa Lind, Mojdeh Motamedi, Joyce H L Lui, Morgan Crawley, Kenny Le, Anna S Lau
{"title":"Employing survival analysis of administrative claims to identify prospective predictors of evidence-based practice sustainment versus provider turnover.","authors":"Lauren Brookman-Frazee, Teresa Lind, Mojdeh Motamedi, Joyce H L Lui, Morgan Crawley, Kenny Le, Anna S Lau","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000915","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study described therapists' delivery of six child mental health evidence-based practices (EBPs) over 33 months during the sustainment phase of a system-driven implementation aimed at improving access to EBPs in community settings.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Seven hundred seventy-seven therapists and 162 program leaders delivering at least one of six EBPs of interest completed surveys, and these data were matched to therapist administrative claims data. Survival analyses examined (a) therapists' discontinuation of delivery of all Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health direct client services (i.e., turnover) and (b) therapists' discontinuation of a specific EBP while continuing to provide psychotherapy services.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A majority of therapists (58.3%) were observed to discontinue providing any direct client services over the 33-month period, and discontinuation rates for specific EBPs ranged from 100% of therapists (Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools) to 76.4% (Managing and Adapting Practice). Different factors predicted the discontinuation of all service delivery compared to the discontinuation of a specific EBP. Greater therapist emotional exhaustion predicted higher likelihood of discontinuation of all direct client services. For EBP discontinuation, EBP-level factors (e.g., EBPs that required ongoing consultation), therapist-level factors (e.g., ability to provide services in a language other than English), and agency-level factors (e.g., more positive program leader perceptions of the EBP) predicted lower likelihood of discontinuation of the specific EBP.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Different factors contribute to the risk of therapists leaving the service system versus discontinuing the delivery of specific EBPs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"93 1","pages":"40-53"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olutosin Adesogan, Steven R H Beach, Sierra E Carter, Isha W Metzger, Justin A Lavner
{"title":"Effects of a responsive parenting intervention on Black mothers' depressive symptoms postpartum: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.","authors":"Olutosin Adesogan, Steven R H Beach, Sierra E Carter, Isha W Metzger, Justin A Lavner","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000926","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined whether a responsive parenting (RP) intervention for first-time Black mothers had secondary benefits for their mental health by reducing their postpartum depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In total, 212 first-time Black mothers participated in the Sleep Strong African American Families randomized control trial. Mothers were randomized to the RP condition or a safety control condition at 1-week postpartum. Participants reported their depressive symptoms at 1-, 8-, and 16-week postpartum. Data were analyzed using linear regression and moderation analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was not a significant main effect of the intervention condition on mothers' depressive symptoms at 8- or 16-week postpartum. However, at 8-week postpartum, the main effect of the condition was significantly moderated by mothers' depressive symptoms at baseline: Mothers in the RP condition reported significantly lower levels of 8-week depressive symptoms than mothers in the safety control condition if they initially had clinically significant depressive symptoms but did not differ from controls if they did not initially have clinically significant depressive symptoms. This interaction effect was not significant at 16-week postpartum. Effects remained consistent, controlling for demographic variables, which did not significantly moderate condition effects at 8- or 16-week postpartum.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Participation in the Sleep Strong African American Families responsive parenting intervention led to a more rapid reduction in depressive symptoms among first-time Black mothers with clinically significant depressive symptoms at baseline relative to the control condition. Findings suggest that family-focused responsive parenting interventions may serve as forms of \"constructed resilience\" that promote positive mental health early in the postpartum period. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"92 12","pages":"828-835"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11956217/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142882209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Martín Gómez Penedo, Paula Errázuriz, Alice E Coyne, Christoph Flückiger
{"title":"Individual risk of not responding to psychotherapy in Latin America: Bringing data-informed precision care to underresourced clinical settings.","authors":"Juan Martín Gómez Penedo, Paula Errázuriz, Alice E Coyne, Christoph Flückiger","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000931","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000931","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Machine learning has a great potential for prospectively forecasting individual patient response to mental health care (MHC), thereby enabling treatment personalization. However, previous efforts have been limited to populations living in predominantly higher income, developed countries. This study aimed to extend the reach of precision MHC systems by developing and testing a feasible and readily implementable algorithm for identifying patients at risk of nonresponse to routinely delivered psychotherapy in Chile, a developing country in Latin America.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Data were derived from a community-based, randomized trial that tested the effects of progress feedback on naturalistically delivered psychotherapy outcome. Patients were 547 adults who were consecutively admitted to an outpatient clinic in Santiago, Chile. Treatment response was defined using norms for reliable improvement on the Outcome Questionnaire-30. Based on 10 sociodemographic and seven clinical predictors, we trained elastic net and random forest algorithms on a randomly selected training set (70%; n = 384). The best performing algorithm was tested on a hold-out sample (30%; n = 163).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Reliable improvement was achieved in 42% of the cases. A random forest algorithm demonstrated moderate performance in the hold-out sample (area under the curve = .74, Brier score = .21), correctly identifying 73% of the patients who did not respond.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study developed a predictive algorithm that demonstrated moderate accuracy in identifying patients at risk of nonresponse to naturalistic psychotherapy in Chile, using routinely assessed and easy-to-collect sociodemographic and clinical information. Using such tools may represent one step toward reducing the multilayered outcome disparities faced by individuals receiving MHC in socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"92 12","pages":"836-842"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142882211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Informed\" consent? Ethical considerations for clinicians using therapy-matching platforms.","authors":"Colette N Delawalla, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000927","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mental health care in the United States is prohibitively difficult to access. Barriers of entry include a shortage of providers, high cost of services, insufficient insurance coverage, and layers of bureaucracy. This problem of low supply and high demand created a unique environment for capitalist problem solvers to enter the therapeutic market, via \"therapy-matching platforms.\" Several ethically related Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaints and independent investigations into these platforms highlight that the forward progress is not without growing pains. This commentary focuses on ensuring proper informed consent when providing services on therapy-matching platforms (e.g., BetterHelp, TalkSpace). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"92 12","pages":"785-787"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142882173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reagan L Miller-Chagnon, Lauren B Shomaker, Mark A Prince, Jill T Krause, Addie Rzonca, Shelley A Haddock, Toni S Zimmerman, Jason M Lavender, Erica Sibinga, Rachel G Lucas-Thompson
{"title":"The benefits of mindfulness training for momentary mindfulness and emotion regulation: A randomized controlled trial for adolescents exposed to chronic stressors.","authors":"Reagan L Miller-Chagnon, Lauren B Shomaker, Mark A Prince, Jill T Krause, Addie Rzonca, Shelley A Haddock, Toni S Zimmerman, Jason M Lavender, Erica Sibinga, Rachel G Lucas-Thompson","doi":"10.1037/ccp0000910","DOIUrl":"10.1037/ccp0000910","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The goal of this study was to test if a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) compared to an active control ameliorates the impacts of life stressors on momentary mindfulness and emotion regulation difficulties among adolescents exposed to chronic stressors.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Adolescents exposed to chronic stressors (N = 81, Mage = 13.75 years; 56% boys; 24% Hispanic/Latino, 57% White) were randomized to receive MBI within the context of a community-based mentoring program (MBI + mentoring) or mentoring-alone. Participants completed ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) three times each day for 7 days at three intervals/bursts (preintervention, midintervention, and postintervention), contributing to a total of 3,178 EMA reports. EMA assessed momentary exposure to life stressors, mindfulness (vs. mindlessness), and emotion regulation difficulties.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Linear mixed-effects models revealed that the interaction between intervention arm (MBI + mentoring vs. mentoring-alone) and burst was significantly associated with the random slopes of life stressor exposure predicting mindful attention (b = -.05, SE = .01, p < .001), mindful nonjudgment (b = -.03, SE = .01, p < .001), and emotion regulation difficulties (b = -.04, SE = .01, p < .001). Estimated marginal means revealed that MBI + mentoring, compared to mentoring-alone, produced small but significant attenuation in the association of life stressors with mindful attention, mindful nonjudgment, and emotion regulation difficulties at postintervention.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Mindfulness training may buffer adolescents exposed to chronic stressors against the negative impacts of life stressors on mindfulness and emotion regulation in daily life. Going forward, it will be important to investigate these relationships in the context of mental/physical health outcomes and to include longer periods of follow-up to determine the sustainable benefits of MBI for adolescent health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":15447,"journal":{"name":"Journal of consulting and clinical psychology","volume":"92 12","pages":"800-813"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11921726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142882213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}