Update -- Social Cognition - Measurement and Improvement
Feb 11, 2013
As an update to my last post, I'd like to make available the article, by Ana Hernandez, I mentioned in my last post:
Relationships between childhood maltreatment, parenting style, and borderline personality disorder criteria [LINK]
This study examines the relationship of different types of childhood maltreatment and the perceived parenting style with borderline personality disorder (BPD) criteria. Kendall's Tau partial correlations were performed controlling for the effect of simultaneous adverse experiences and Axis I and II symptoms in a sample of 109 female patients (32 BPD, 43 other personality disorder, and 34 non-personality disorder). BPD criteria were associated with higher scores on emotional and sexual abuse, whereas parenting style did not show a specific association with BPD. Findings of the present study help clarify the effects of overlapping environmental factors that are associated with BPD.
I've put a lot of work lately into making sure that all my audiovisual materials remain accessible, firstly by making sure that I don't lose them! ;-) Part of this work has included moving my audiovisuals to a central cloud store, which is readily accessible, and that doesn't require users to register for any form of cloud store membership. This process is still in process, but I'll be posting details when it's completed. Please bear with me in the meantime.
This is a very different line of research to that taken by those in the United States -- historically, Europe has led in the examination of "psychodynamic" factors, while those in the US have pursued a more "cognitive behavioral" approach -- doubtless, both are of value, and here I'd like to share a little more of my "journeys" in using computer resources to assist personal recovery -- one "app" I"ve found recently, and am trying out on my own smartphone is the "Depression CBT Self-Help Guide" [LINK] --- I'm sure there are very good resources available on Apple iOS devices, though even here in New Zealand, Android apps, which this is, are becoming easily available for even those on welfare benefits. What I like about this app is, first and foremost, the preliminary cautions provided about NOT relying on any help external to formal therapy (though I'd be the first to say such therapy, though ideal, is hardly easily available, especially here in New Zealand. Secondly, there're a very large number of resources linked to; thirdly, the app is "free" (sorta) --it's one of the most highly rated apps on the Google Play Market. What I don't like about the app, and the website, is that though the philosophy seems consistent with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the identity of the site owner, and the particular models used are not made clear, so that people more easily evaluate the information provided -- in part, something which has been one of my primary motivating factors in setting up my site -- not only provide you with information, but the means by which you can evaluate it for yourself.
While, I'm here, may I remind you of the series of presentations I'm providing links to via my website page on applying developments of brain science to therapy [LINK] -- coming up next from the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine:
Stephen Porges, PhD discusses
How Polyvagal Theory Expands Our Healing Paradigm --
- :Why We Misunderstand Stress, and How to Work With It
- Interoception: A Powerful Sixth Sense
- How Interoception Affects Behavior: What's Behind Our "Feelings"
- Vagal Tone: How the Vagus Nerve Regulates Emotion
- Is the Vagal Brake at the Root of Autism?
- How Interpersonal Interaction Affects the Brain and Body
- Neuropeptides: How Oxytocin Changes Behavior
I think it's pretty safe predicting that an integration of the approaches, European and American, will involve making the best use of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches, based on careful, "mindful", self-monitoring, and self-correction of subjective responses to everyday life experience -- the sorts of skills, further developed, written about by Marsha Linehan and colleagues [LINK]