Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study
Over the last years, mindfulness-based interventions combined with habit reversal training have been demonstrated to be particularly suitable for addressing trichotillomania. However, because these studies always combined mindfulness training to habit reversal without including either a mindfulness...
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| description | Over the last years, mindfulness-based interventions combined with habit reversal training have been demonstrated to be particularly suitable for addressing trichotillomania. However, because these studies always combined mindfulness training to habit reversal without including either a mindfulness or habit reversal condition alone, it is still unclear whether clinical benefits are the consequences of mindfulness or merely result from habit reversal training. The primary purpose of the present study was thus to examine whether a mindfulness training procedure without habit reversal could alleviate trichotillomania. Using a Bayesian probabilistic approach for single-case design, client’s hair loss severity and level of mindfulness were compared to a normative sample (n = 15) before treatment, after treatment, and at six-month follow-up. Improvement in mindfulness first occurred, and that beneficial effect then transferred to hair-pulling. Indeed, as compared to the normative sample, the client exhibited, from baseline to post-treatment, an improvement in mindfulness. Although a marginal trend to improvement was already evidenced at post-treatment, the mindfulness program only had a significant beneficial effect transferred to hair-loss severity at six-month follow-up. Although it remains particularly difficult to infer generalization from one client, the data from the present case study are the first to suggest that mindfulness training per se might be a suitable clinical intervention for trichotillomania. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d6bce923c8b044689a470e3590786dc42022-12-21T23:57:20ZengUbiquity PressPsychologica Belgica0033-28792054-670X2015-07-0155310.5334/pb.bj224Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control StudyAlexandre Heeren0Charlotte Busana1Charlotte Coussement2Pierre Philippot3Université catholique de LouvainUniversité catholique de LouvainUniversité catholique de LouvainUniversité catholique de LouvainOver the last years, mindfulness-based interventions combined with habit reversal training have been demonstrated to be particularly suitable for addressing trichotillomania. However, because these studies always combined mindfulness training to habit reversal without including either a mindfulness or habit reversal condition alone, it is still unclear whether clinical benefits are the consequences of mindfulness or merely result from habit reversal training. The primary purpose of the present study was thus to examine whether a mindfulness training procedure without habit reversal could alleviate trichotillomania. Using a Bayesian probabilistic approach for single-case design, client’s hair loss severity and level of mindfulness were compared to a normative sample (n = 15) before treatment, after treatment, and at six-month follow-up. Improvement in mindfulness first occurred, and that beneficial effect then transferred to hair-pulling. Indeed, as compared to the normative sample, the client exhibited, from baseline to post-treatment, an improvement in mindfulness. Although a marginal trend to improvement was already evidenced at post-treatment, the mindfulness program only had a significant beneficial effect transferred to hair-loss severity at six-month follow-up. Although it remains particularly difficult to infer generalization from one client, the data from the present case study are the first to suggest that mindfulness training per se might be a suitable clinical intervention for trichotillomania.http://www.psychologicabelgica.com/articles/260Trichotillomaniamindfulnesshabit reversalclinical psychology |
| spellingShingle | Alexandre Heeren Charlotte Busana Charlotte Coussement Pierre Philippot Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study Psychologica Belgica Trichotillomania mindfulness habit reversal clinical psychology |
| title | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study |
| title_full | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study |
| title_fullStr | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study |
| title_short | Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Trichotillomania: A Bayesian Case-Control Study |
| title_sort | mindfulness based cognitive therapy for trichotillomania a bayesian case control study |
| topic | Trichotillomania mindfulness habit reversal clinical psychology |
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