Evaluation of a positive psychotherapy group intervention for people with psychosis: Pilot randomised controlled trial

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 235-246

  Schrank, Beate ^a,b   Brownell, Tamsin ^b   Jakaite, Zivile ^b   Larkin, Charley ^b   Pesola, Francesca ^b   Riches, Simon ^b   Tylee, Andre ^b   Slade, Mike ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Positive psychology; psychosis; psychotherapy; randomised controlled trial; schizophrenia; wellbeing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; COMPLIER AVERAGE CAUSAL EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMPOWERMENT; HOPE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; POSITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY INVENTORY AND QUALITY OF LIFE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF ESTEEM; SENSE OF COHERENCE SCALE; SHORT DEPRESSION HAPPINESS SCALE; STUDENT T TEST; WARWICK EDINBURGH MENTAL WELL BEING SCALE; GROUP THERAPY;

DEPRESSION; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84923280118     PISSN: 20457960     EISSN: 20457979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2045796015000141     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Akhtar M, Boniwell I (2010). Applying positive psychology to alcohol-misusing adolescents: a group intervention. Groupwork 20, 6-31
2. Bellg AJ, Borrelli B, Resnick B, Hecht J, Minicucci DS, Ory M, Ogedegbe G, Orwig D, Ernst D, Czajkowski S, Treatment Fidelity Workgroup of the NIHBCC (2004). Enhancing treatment fidelity in health behavior change studies: best practices and recommendations from the NIH Behavior Change Consortium. Health Psychology 23, 443-451
3. Blaskovich J, Tomaka J (1991). Measures of self-esteem. In Measures of Personality and Social psychological Attitudes. Volume 1: Measures of Psychological Attitudes (ed. JP Robinson, PR Shaver and S Lawrence), pp. 121-123, Wrightsman Academic Pr Inc, St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
4. Bolier L, Haverman M, Westerhof G, Riper H, Smit F, Bohlmeijer E (2013). Positive psychology interventions: a meta-Analysis of randomized controlled studies. BMC Public Health 13, 119
5. Brownell T, Schrank B, Jakaite Z, Larkin C, Slade M (2014). Mental health service user experience of positive psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology 71, 85-92
6. Bryant F (2003). Savoring Beliefs Inventory (SBI): a scale for measuring beliefs about savouring. Journal of Mental Health 12, 175-196
7. Buckley PF, Miller BJ, Lehrer DS, Castle DJ (2009). Psychiatric comorbidities and schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 35, 383-402
8. Burns AM, Erickson DH, Brenner CA (2014). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for medication-resistant psychosis: a meta-Analytic review. Psychiatric Services Apr 1 [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201300213
9. Chadwick P (2014). Mindfulness for psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 204, 333-334
10. Clarke A, Friede T, Putz R, Ashdown J, Martin S, Blake A, Adi Y, Parkinson J, Flynn P, Platt S, Stewart-Brown S (2011). Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): validated for teenage school students in England and Scotland. A mixed methods assessment. BMC Public Health 11, 487
11. Craig P, Dieppe P, Macintyre S, Michie S, Nazareth I, Petticrew M, Medical Research Council (2008). Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance. British Medical Journal 337, a1655
12. Department of Health (1999). Effective care co-ordination in mental health services. HMSO, Catalogue number 16736. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov. uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/Publications PolicyAndGuidance/DH-4009221
13. Dunn G (2013). Pragmatic trials of complex psychosocial interventions: methodological challenges. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 22, 105-109
14. Eriksson M, Lindstrom B (2006). Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale and the relation with health: a systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60, 376-381
15. Guney S (2011). The positive psychotherapy inventory (PPTI): reliability and validity study in Turkish population. Social and Behavioral Science 29, 81-86
16. Jauhar S, McKenna PJ, Radua J, Fung E, Salvador R, Laws KR (2014). Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia: systematic review and meta-Analysis with examination of potential bias. British Journal of Psychiatry 204, 20-29
17. Joseph S, McCollam P (1993). A bipolar happiness and depression scale. Journal of Genetic Psychology 154, 127-129
18. Joseph S, Linley PA, Harwood J, Lewis CA, McCollam P (2004). Rapid assessment of well-being: the Short Depression-Happiness Scale (SDHS). Psychology and Psychotherapy 77, 463-478
19. Juni P, Altman DG, Egger M (2001). Systematic reviews in health care: assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials. British Medical Journal 323, 42-46
20. Kahl KG, Winter L, Schweiger U (2012). The third wave of cognitive behavioural therapies: what is new and what is effective?. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 25, 522-528
21. Lancaster GA, Dodd S, Williamson PR (2004). Design and analysis of pilot studies: recommendations for good practice. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 10, 307-312
22. Margrove KL, SE-SURG, Heydinrych K, Secker J (2012). Waiting list-controlled evaluation of a participatory arts course for people experiencing mental health problems. Perspectives in Public Health 133, 28-35
23. Meyer PS, Johnson DP, Parks A, Iwanski C, Penn DL (2012). Positive living: a pilot study of group positive psychotherapy for people with schizophrenia. Journal of Positive Psychology 7, 239-248
24. Miyamoto S, Jarskog LF, Fleischhacker WW (2014). New therapeutic approaches for treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a look to the future. Journal of Psychiatric Research 58, 1-6
25. Neuendorf KA (2002). The Content Analysis Guidebook. SAGE Publication: Thousand Oaks, CA.
26. NICE (National Institute of Clinical Excellence) (2009). Schizophrenia: Core interventions in the treatment and management of schizophrenia in adults in primary and secondary care. Quick reference guide. NICE clinical guideline No. 82
27. Ouweneel E, Le Blanc PM, Schaufeli WB (2013). Do-it-yourself: an online positive psychology intervention to promote positive emotions, self-efficacy, and engagement at work. Career Development International 18, 173-195
28. Overall JE, Gorham DR (1988). The brief psychiatric rating scale (BPRS): recent developments in ascertainment and scaling. Psychopharmacology Bulletin 24, 97-99
29. Parks-Sheiner AC (2009). Positive psychotherapy: building a model of empirically supported self-help. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation available from ProQuest. Paper AAI3363580. http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI3363580
30. Pirkis J, Burgess P, Kirk P, Dodson S, Coombs T, Williamson M (2005). A review of the psychometric properties of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 3, 76
31. Priebe S, Huxley P, Knight S, Evans S (1999). Application and results of the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA). International Journal of Social Psychiatry 45, 7-12
32. Rashid T, Seligman ME (2013). Positive psychotherapy. In Current Psychotherapies (ed. D Wedding and R Corsini), pp. 461-498. Cengage: Belmont, CA.
33. Riches S, Schrank B, Rashid T, Slade M (2014). WELLFOCUS PPT: modifying positive psychotherapy into a manualised intervention to improve well-being for people with psychosis. Psychotherapy, accepted for publication
34. Rogers ES, Ralph RO, Salzer MS (2010). Validating the empowerment scale with a multisite sample of consumers of Mental Health Services. Psychiatric Services 61, 933-936
35. Ruggeri M, Tansella M (2011). New perspectives in the psychotherapy of psychoses at onset: evidence, effectiveness, flexibility, and fidelity. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 20, 107-111
36. Ruggeri M, Lasalvia A, Bonetto C (2013). A new generation of pragmatic trials of psychosocial interventions is needed. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 22, 111-117
37. Schrank B, Woppmann A, Grant Hay A, Sibitz I, Zehetmayer S, Lauber C (2012). Validation of the Integrative Hope Scale in people with psychosis. Psychiatry Research 198, 395-399
38. Schrank B, Bird V, Tylee A, Coggins T, Rashid T, Slade M (2013a). Conceptualising and measuring the well-being of people with psychosis: systematic review and narrative synthesis. Social Science and Medicine 92, 9-21
39. Schrank B, Riches S, Bird V, Murray J, Tylee A, Slade M (2013b). A conceptual framework for improving well-being in people with a diagnosis of psychosis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences Aug 20, 1-11 [Epub ahead of print]
40. Schrank B, Riches S, Coggins T, Rashid T, Tylee A, Slade M (2013c). WELLFOCUS PPT -modified Positive Psychotherapy to improve well-being in psychosis: study protocol for pilot randomised controlled trial. Trials Jun 3, 15, 203
41. Schrank B, Riches S, Coggins T, Tylee A, Slade M (2013d). From objectivity to subjectivity: conceptualisation and measurement of well-being in mental health. Neuropsychiatry 3, 525-534
42. Schrank B, Brownell T, Tylee A, Slade M (2014). Positive psychology: an approach to supporting recovery in mental illness. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry 24, 95-103
43. Seligman M, Steen T, Park N, Peterson C (2005). Positive psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions. American Psychologist 60, 410-421
44. Shepherd A (2014). Avoiding surrogate measures and incorporating subjective experience into clinical research. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 83, 119
45. Sin N, Lyubomirsky S (2009). Enhancing well-being and alleviating depressive symptoms with positive psychology interventions: a practice-friendly meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Psychology 65, 467-487
46. Slade M, Bird V, Le Boutillier C, Williams J, McCrone P, Leamy M (2011). REFOCUS Trial: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a pro-recovery intervention within community based mental health teams. BMC Psychiatry 11, 185
47. Slade M, Leamy M, Bacon F, Janosik M, Le Boutillier C, Williams J, Bird V (2012) International differences in understanding recovery: systematic review. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 21, 353-364
48. Steel C, Tarrier N, Stahl D, Wykes T (2012). Cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis: the impact of therapist training and supervision. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 81, 194-195
49. Tennant R, Hiller L, Fishwick R, Platt S, Joseph S, Weich S, Parkinson J, Secker J, Stewart-Brown S (2007). The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 5, 63
50. Thabane L, Ma J, Chu R, Cheng J, Ismaila A, Rios LP, Robson R, Thabane M, Giangregorio L, Goldsmith CH (2010). A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how. BMC Medical Research Methodology 10, 1
51. Zipursky RB, Reilly TJ, Murray RM (2013). The myth of schizophrenia as a progressive brain disease. Schizophrenia Bulletin 39, 1363-1372