Effectiveness of a brief dialectical behavior therapy intensive-outpatient community health program.

Standard dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), with its 12-month format, has a documented record of efficacy. While emerging evidence is supportive of DBT adaptations in community mental health settings and brief, intensive formats, many of these studies are limited by sample size of its DBT group, by omission of program completion rates and specific data from program noncompleters, and by focusing solely on symptom-focused measures-which inadvertently omits observing gains associated with well-being. We used a nonexperimental design to assess client outcomes on pathology-focused and positive-psychology measures in a brief DBT intensive-outpatient Community Mental Health Center in the midwestern United States for program graduates and program dropouts who completed at least two surveys (n = 77). This is the shortest average program length (M = 19.01 days) known for a DBT program. Scores on measures of depression (d = 0.41), anxiety (d = 0.5), stress (d = 0.5), and difficulties in emotion regulation (d = 0.51) all decreased from entrance to exit. Scores on measures of mindfulness (d = 0.43), Snyder's hope (d = 0.51), and integrative hope (d = 0.41) increased from entrance to exit. These results provide evidence that pathology decreases and measures associated with well-being increase in this brief, intensive-outpatient community health DBT program. This study provides support for future investigations of brief, intensive community health programs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Examining the psychometric properties of the Integrative Hope Scale's English translation in a mixed-diagnostic community health sample.

OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to provide preliminary evidence of the English translation of the Integrative Hope Scale (IHS). Hope is a critical concept for recovery. Synthesizing from other hope models, Schrank and colleagues developed the IHS. Although translated into five languages, no known studies assess the IHS's English translation within a clinical sample. Additionally, no known studies investigate the IHS's relationships with mental health measures in a mixed-diagnostic clinical sample. METHOD: To address these gaps in the literature, we used confirmatory factor analyses, alpha, and omega reliability coefficients, and correlational analyses to assess the IHS within a suburban, mixed-diagnostic intensive outpatient community mental health sample (n = 125) in the midwestern United States. RESULTS: While poorest fit was found within the one-factor model, the four-factor oblique, higher-order, and bifactor models showed improved fit. Reliability for the total score was good, with subscales ranging from acceptable to good. Significant relationships were found for the IHS in expected directions with measures of hope and depression at a large effect size and anxiety and stress at a moderate effect size. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: This study provides preliminary evidence that the IHS may have the potential to serve as a central measure of hope. Given hope's role within recovery and given its relationships with mental health measures shown in this mixed-diagnostic clinical sample, the IHS should continue to be investigated by researchers, clinicians, and clients, especially in recovery-focused programs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Evaluation of a mindfulness-based mobile application with college students: A pilot study.

Objective: This pilot study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of The Mindfulness App with college students and the utility of daily text-message reminders for increasing adherence.Participants: Students from a mid-sized Midwestern University (N = 59) during the spring and fall of 2016.Methods: Using a pretest-posttest design, a group of students used The Mindfulness App for 5 weeks. All students were sent text-message reminders to submit daily practice time and completed a series of online measures.Results: Participants consistently used the application as intended, and reported positive attitudes toward the text-message reminders and the quality of the application.Conclusions:The Mindfulness App is a feasible, well-accepted tool for delivering mindfulness interventions to college students.