After an 8-session mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program for people with chronic headaches, the negative impact of pain on quality of life, pain catastrophizing, and depression all decreased significantly, while mindfulness skills and self-compassion increased. The therapy is a brief psychological intervention that can be implemented in general practitioners' offices or headache clinics.
A brief mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) programme was tested in a small pilot study with individuals who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) and engage in non-suicidal self-injury. After the programme, participants showed reductions in self-injury frequency and improvements in related psychological symptoms. The findings suggest that a shorter MBCT intervention may be feasible and helpful for this population, but the uncontrolled pre-post design limits causal conclusions.