Background Self-criticism represents a central phenomenon in a variety of mental disorders.
The review looks at the recent body of literature (2012–2018) to summarize the relation of …

This paper is the first systematic review of the literature on the relationship between shame
and social anxiety (SA). We reviewed a total of 60 peer-reviewed empirical articles that met …

Background Researchers have documented that child maltreatment is associated with
adverse long-term consequences for mental health, including increased risk for depression …

Objectives: Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is an integrative, evolution-informed
approach to mental health difficulties that has been growing rapidly in the last 30 years. This …

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant public health concern associated with
marked impairment across the lifespan. Exposure to traumatic events alone, however, is …

Background Emotional abuse is a form of maltreatment that most strongly predicts adult
depressive symptoms in community samples. Introject theories suggest that some …

Once thought to only be associated with depression, self-criticism is a transdiagnostic risk
factor for diverse forms of psychopathology.(1, 2) However, research has shown that self …

There is considerable evidence that self-criticism plays a major role in the vulnerability to
and recovery from psychopathology. Methods to measure this process, and its change over …

Objective Future treatments for eating disorders (ED) need to be enhanced by targeting
maintaining mechanisms. Literature suggests self‐criticism and self‐critical perfectionism act …

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of emotion-focused
therapy (EFT) for adults suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD). Method: Using a …