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Change in the moving bodymind: Quantitative results from a pilot study on the use of the BodyMind approach (BMA) to psychotherapeutic group work with patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUSs)
Author(s) -
Payne Helen,
Stott David
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1080/14733140903551645
Subject(s) - anxiety , distress , intervention (counseling) , coping (psychology) , depression (economics) , single subject design , psychology , clinical psychology , physical therapy , psychiatry , medicine , psychotherapist , economics , macroeconomics
Background: This article reports quantitative results from a pilot study in primary care (PC) undertaken from 2004–2007. The intervention programme, derived from movement psychotherapy, was termed ‘Learning groups: the BodyMind approach (BMA),’ and emphasised a verbal and non‐verbal integrated model, awareness of the inter‐relationship between body and mind and a self‐managing framework. Aim: To evaluate systematically the outcomes of a 12‐week group BMA intervention programme with patients suffering from anxiety/depression with at least one chronic (over two years) medically unexplained symptom (MUS), another term for a psychosomatic condition or somatoform disorder. Method: A mixed method was applied to a single‐case design. Outcome measures completed at baseline, mid‐, post‐ intervention and three‐month follow‐up were the Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) and the Counselling Outcome Routine Evaluation (CORE). Results: Increased activity levels and well‐being; more effective coping/functioning strategies; reduction in anxiety/depression, GP‐consultation and medication usage, and symptom distress. All changes were maintained at three‐month follow‐up.