Attachment--and loss.

Objective Impairments in laboratory tasks of metacognition appear to be associated with symptoms, functioning, and neurocognition in schizophrenia We sought to replicate these results in a study of metacognition within personal narratives of self and illness Method Narratives of 61 men with schizophrenia were rated using the Metacognition Assessment Scale and correlated with concurrent assessment of symptoms, quality of life, neurocognition and insight Results Controlling for age and education, understanding of one's own mind was linked with better neurocognition across multiple domains, and lesser emotional withdrawal Greater understanding of other's mind was linked with better verbal memory and less emotional withdrawal Greater metacognition in the context of purposeful problem solving was associated with better verbal memory, insight and social function, and less emotional withdrawal and paranoia Conclusion Deficits in metacognition within the narratives of persons with schizophrenia are linked with symptoms, quality of life, neurocognition and poorer awareness of illness

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Metacognition amidst narratives of self and illness in schizophrenia: associations with neurocognition, symptoms, insight and quality of life.

Metacognition and schizophrenia: the capacity for self-reflectivity as a predictor for prospective assessments of work performance over six months.

Know yourself and you shall know the other... to a certain extent : Multiple paths of influence of self-reflection on mindreading

The dialogical self.

In this article the authors present a method and a scale for the evaluation of the metacognitive profiles of psychotherapy patients. There will be a description of the metacognitive function and of the alterations that occur to it during treatment. Various hypotheses will then be considered: (1) that the metacognitive function has a modular structure; (2) that for each type of psychopathological condition there is a different metacognitive deficit profile; (3) that to be successful psychotherapy needs to involve an improvement in any deficient metacognitive sub-function. There will then be a presentation of the Metacognition Assessment Scale (MAS) for the assessment of metacognitive deficits during psychotherapy. We shall then describe the first results we have on the application of the scale. Finally there will be an analysis of two patients suffering from Personality Disorders and a demonstration of what metacognitive deficit profile each one has and how it is modified over the course of psychotherapy treatment. The article ends with a discussion of the hypotheses made at the start in the light of the results that have emerged. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

How to evaluate metacognitive functioning in psychotherapy? The metacognition assessment scale and its applications

The authors present the theoretical background, development, and validation of a new psychotherapy process rating tool: Grid of Problematic States (GPS). The GPS is based on Horowitz's states of mind theory, which describes recurrent patterns of experience and behavior. Meaningful changes in the observed states indicate therapeutic change. The GPS is designed for use with transcripts from psychotherapy sessions and focuses on narrative episodes within the patient dialogue. The GPS was applied to a completely transcribed cognitive psychotherapy with a patient diagnosed as mild major depressive. The authors demonstrated that the GPS could reliably assess disorganization and the development of stable construct clusters of thought themes, emotions, and somatic sensations. The interpretation of results is consistent with the patient's clinical assessment.

Assessing problematic States in patients' narratives: the grid of problematic States.

Given the urgent informational needs connected with the pandemic diffusion of the Covid-19 infection, in this paper we propose a sample design to build up a continuous-time surveillance system. With respect to other observational strategies, our proposal has three important elements of strength and originality: (i) it not only aims at providing a snapshot of the phenomenon in a single moment of time, but it is designed to be a continuous survey, repeated in several waves through time, (ii) the statistical optimality properties of the estimators are formally derived in this paper and (iii) it is rapidly operational as it is required by the emergency connected with diffusion of the virus. The sample design is thought having in mind, in particular, the SAR-CoV-2 diffusion in Italy during the Spring of 2020. However, the proposed sampling design is very general, and we are confident that it could be easily extended to other geographical areas and to possible future epidemic outbreaks.

A sample approach to the estimation of the critical parameters of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemics: an operational design with a focus on the Italian health system

Giorgio Alleva

Papers

How to evaluate metacognitive functioning in psychotherapy? The metacognition assessment scale and its applications

Assessing problematic States in patients' narratives: the grid of problematic States.

A sample approach to the estimation of the critical parameters of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemics: an operational design with a focus on the Italian health system

What drives environmental conflicts in coastal areas? An econometric approach

Mapping resource conflicts with probabilistic network models