Early maladaptive schemas from child maltreatment in depression and psychotherapeutic remediation: a predictive coding framework

Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16

Published: April 29, 2025

Schemas are affective-cognitive conceptual models of self, others and the world, derived from life experience. Predictive Coding theory proposes schema created perceptual input as follows: Based on previous similar experiences, brain generates schema, with “predictions,” expectations future sensory experiences. Discrepancy between predicted versus actual experience produces a “prediction error.” Exposure to prediction errors considered more certain than predictions prompts hippocampus update revise schema. Hypothesized underlying mechanisms include memory reconsolidation, extinction pattern separation. Depression is characterized by negative schemas predicting helplessness, hopelessness worthlessness. Early maladaptive schemas, childhood, implicated in mediating greater risk depression childhood maltreatment. Prominent examples Defectiveness/Shame self-schema, flawed, unlovable self Social Isolation/Alienation isolation. offers following biopsychosocial hypothesis explaining how maltreatment promotes depressogenic early psychotherapy can help: Schema be difficult change because an attention/memory bias away schema-incongruent information that generate prompting revision. Childhood exacerbates this learning bias. Maladaptive coping styles associated maltreatment, decrease exposure experiences contradicting Biological changes including inflammation, interfere hippocampal updating Finally, impaired socio-occupational function, reinforces By targeting factors which reinforce or diminish errors, facilitate revision

Language: Английский

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The relationship between childhood trauma, PTSD symptoms, and perceived leadership competence: have we protected our future leaders?

Current Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 43(31), P. 26035 - 26042

Published: July 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Effectiveness of a Group Counseling Intervention for Turkish University Students with Childhood Trauma

Journal of Loss and Trauma, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 29(8), P. 1088 - 1116

Published: Aug. 2, 2024

This research aimed to examine the effects of an eclectic group counseling intervention based on cognitive and behavioral approach positive psychology-based practices rumination life satisfaction levels university students with childhood trauma in Turkey. The was designed as exploratory sequential mixed-method study. first phase focused discovering what traumatic stories needed reduce their increase satisfaction. themes that were obtained contributed content program. In second phase, forty-two participants randomly assigned experimental control groups. Rumination Scale Satisfaction Life applied data collection tools. A 12-session psychological program provided once a week group. No made One after sessions completed, posttest administered groups, follow-up measurements carried out two months later. showed significant improvements decreasing increasing compared group, these maintained measurements. last qualitative collected during analyzed evaluate conclusion, effective reducing students.

Language: Английский

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Childhood Traumas and Depressive Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Anxiety Sensitivity

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: Volume 20, P. 1889 - 1900

Published: Oct. 1, 2024

Purpose: Depression is one of the most common public health problems. Considering frequency childhood trauma in people with depressive symptoms, determining mediating factors important understanding relationship between them. Our study aimed to evaluate effect anxiety sensitivity, cognitive structures that plays a role etiology and maintenance psychopathologies, on depression symptoms traumas. Patients Methods: The included 110 participants aged 18 65, diagnosed depression, applied psychiatry outpatient clinic. Of participants, 35 were male 75 female. majority 18– 25 age group (39.1%), followed by smaller percentage 25– (32.7%). Beck Inventory (BDI-I), Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI-3) administered 15 February April 2024. Results: When sample was examined according history it found score subscale ASI-3 scores physical neglect, emotional abuse subscales CTQ significantly higher symptoms. "Emotional neglect", "Physical abuse" CTQ, "Cognitive" regression models, neglect predicted through sub-group AS. Conclusion: In our study, shown trauma, which could cause person stressful life events as more depressogenic formation negative cognitions about themselves world, severity occurrence fear dysfunction. Keywords: sensitivity

Language: Английский

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Application of “Internet +” continuous emotion management training in patients with depression

Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: Nov. 26, 2024

Explore the application effects of "Internet +" continuous emotional management training in depression patients and analyze feasibility innovative rehabilitation methods.

Language: Английский

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