Compassion Focused Therapy for Groups: Transdiagnostic Treatment for Turbulent Times.

The concept of compassion has a centuries-long history as a pillar of philosophical and religious discourse as a response to human suffering. More recently, Paul Gilbert, the founder of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) has explained compassion evolutionarily as a willingness to enter human suffering and a commitment to alleviating it. In the face of increased (and increasing) suffering in the world, compassion shows promise as both a societal and an individual intervention.

Is the Measure Good Enough? Measurement Invariance and Validity of the Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale in a University Population.

Imposter Phenomenon (IP) was coined in 1978 by Clance and Imes and has been an important construct in explaining individuals' experiences of believing that achievements are a result of luck or misperceptions of others rather than personal competence. The Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale (CIPS), developed in 1985, is a prominent operationalization of this construct. Although this scale has been widely used since its inception, its factor structure has been inconsistent across studies and no tests of measurement invariance are documented in the literature.

The power of compassion in group psycotherapy.

Research has repeatedly demonstrated that individual and group psychotherapy are equally effective. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) has been shown to be an effective approach to treating individuals with a wide range of presenting mental health concerns. In this study, we discuss the basic tenets of CFT and introduce a 12-module CFT group psychotherapy approach for college counseling centers.

Adapting stepped care: Changes to service delivery format in the context of high demand.

Given the ongoing dilemma for college counseling centers to meet steady increases in demand for services, this study outlines the implementation of an adapted stepped care model in a university counseling center. Our adapted model focused, as do other stepped care models, on treatment planning and lower-intensity interventions, with the addition of the intensive therapy option being provided on a weekly basis. We adopted our stepped care model across a large center and hypothesized that after implementation we would be able to serve a similar number of clients as our previous model and that treatment outcomes for these clients would improve.

Practice-based evidence can help! Using the Group Questionnaire to enhance clinical practice.

Practice-based evidence (Burlingame & Beecher, 2008) is an approach to evidence-based practice that addresses treatment efficacy to remediate clinicians' inability to predict treatment response (Chapman et al., 2012; Hannan et al., 2005).

Sunshine on my shoulders: Weather, pollution, and emotional distress.

Background: Researchers have examined the relationship between mental health and weather/pollution with mixed results. The current study aimed to examine a range of weather and atmospheric phenomena and their association with time-bound mental health data.

Methods: Nineteen different weather/pollution variables were examined in connection with an archive of self-reported mental health data for university students participating in mental health treatment (n=16,452) using the Outcome Questionnaire 45.

Translation of the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ) into Japanese: A cultural adaptation.

Objective: While there are several Japanese, qualitative, case studies examining psychotherapy outcome, there is a growing need for quantitative psychotherapy outcome research in Japan. This study adapted the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ), one of the most common quantitative measures of clinical outcome, for use in Japan.

Method: With the help of 6 translators and 116 native Japanese pilot respondents, the original OQ was translated into Japanese following Beaton et al.

The group selection questionnaire: a qualitative analysis of potential group members.

The Group Selection Questionnaire (GSQ) has been shown to predict which individuals will improve during group psychotherapy. The present study sought to quantitatively and qualitatively describe those who are predicted to benefit (low scorers) and not benefit (high scorers) from group, based on their GSQ scores. High and low scorers were selected from two samples-a "non-clinical" group of undergraduates in an introductory psychology course and a "clinical" group of clients from a university counseling center.

A clinician's take on evidence-based group psychotherapy: a commentary.

Each of the articles in this issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session provides valuable resources to group psychotherapists looking to develop an evidence-based practice. This article provides a summary of and commentary on this information from a clinician's point of view. I discuss the clinical utility of these resources, while acknowledging and addressing the practitioner concerns associated with them.

New directions and resources in group psychotherapy: introduction to the issue.

Establishing an evidence-based practice (EBP) is a central byproduct of the ever-increasing emphasis on accountability in mental health services. Though much has been written and developed for individual psychotherapists who wish to develop EBPs, there are far fewer resources for group psychotherapists. This article introduces a series of articles designed to provide EBPs and resources for group psychotherapists.