Group therapy using a “Metta meditation” approach involving compassion improved patients' functioning.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness techniques are increasingly finding their way into the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including those associated with medical conditions (e.g., concussion, nonepileptiform seizures, and Parkinson disease). Now, researchers have examined the efficacy of CBT focusing on compassion (emotions precipitated by the suffering of oneself and others) in the treatment of 42 women with fibromyalgia.
Participants, all in their early 50s were randomized to eight sessions (2.0–2.5 hours long) of attachment-based cognitive therapy (ABCT; exercises in mindfulness training and compassion that involved offering compassion to friends, others, and oneself) or low-intensity relaxation therapy (control). Pati…
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DisclosuresRoyaltiesTextbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd and 3rd editions
Editorial BoardsUpToDate; Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesNorth American Brain Injury Association (Board Member); National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (Chair of Data Monitoring Safety Board for study of donepezil on cognition after traumatic brain injury)