Self-compassion and body image inflexibility as mediators of outcomes in a residential eating disorder sample.

Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions that are accompanied by negative health outcomes, high mortality rates, impaired functioning, and comorbid mental health conditions. Despite many empirically supported interventions for eating disorders, it remains one of the most challenging mental disorders to treat, as individuals often struggle to maintain treatment gains. One method of improving our understanding of effective eating disorder treatment is to identify important processes of change to target during therapy.

Examining a mediation model of body image-related cognitive fusion, intuitive eating, and eating disorder symptom severity in a clinical sample.

Purpose: This study sought to explore the associations between Intuitive Eating (IE), eating disorder (ED) symptom severity, and body image-related cognitive fusion within a clinical sample. IE was also examined as a possible mediator in the relationship between body image-related fusion and ED symptoms.

Methods: This study includes cross-sectional analyses with data from 100 adult females and 75 adolescent females seeking residential treatment for an ED.

Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance of the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire-Body Image in a clinical eating disorder sample.

Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) may be particularly susceptible to body image related cognitive fusion (i.e., excessive entanglement with one's body image related thoughts such that they unduly influence on behavior).

Obsessive compulsive disorder and thought action fusion: Relationships with eating disorder outcomes.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is among the most common psychiatric comorbidities with eating disorders (EDs) and most studies have only examined this relationship at a diagnostic level. More research is needed to determine whether specific symptom domains and cognitive patterns commonly observed in OCD are most salient among individuals with clinically significant EDs, and whether these symptoms appear to change and/or influence treatment outcomes. Thought Action Fusion (TAF) is one cognitive pattern that may underlie OCD-ED comorbidity.

An exploratory component analysis of emotion regulation strategies for improving emotion regulation and emotional eating.

Emotion-focused treatments are generally efficacious for improving emotion regulation and consequently, improving clinical symptoms across numerous disorders. However, emotion-focused treatment approaches often contain numerous treatment components, limiting our ability to identify which are most efficacious. As such, the current pilot study sought to isolate three components common across a range of emotion-focused treatments (i.

Assessing the valuing process in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Experts' review of the current status and recommendations for future measure development.

Within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), personal values provide the foundational framework of the therapeutic process and are considered necessary to facilitate targeted behavioral movement and a more vital, meaningful life. Considering the proposed nature of values as a core mechanism of change in this way, a thorough understanding of the therapeutic valuing process through which targeted changes occur is essential to evaluate the true efficacy of the ACT model empirically and implement it most effectively. However, to date, development of measurement tools for this purpose is limited and those that do exist are often inconsistent in their targeted constructs.

Mechanisms and moderators in mindfulness- and acceptance-based treatments for binge eating spectrum disorders: A systematic review.

Objective: Increasing evidence suggests that mindfulness- and acceptance-based psychotherapies (MABTs) for bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED) may be efficacious; however, little is known about their active treatment components or for whom they may be most effective.

Methods: We systematically identified clinical trials testing MABTs for BN or BED through PsychINFO and Google Scholar. Publications were categorized according to analyses of mechanisms of action and moderators of treatment outcome.

Starting off on the right foot in acceptance and commitment therapy.

This article describes the initial phase of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The article begins with a review of ACT's theoretical orientation. Basic empirical support for ACT and its model are covered.