Publications related to the specific processes targeted by DNA-V

Evidence for advisor/cognitive-focused interventions

• Benefits of reducing unhelpful forms of cognition. Altering form or function of unhelpful beliefs/thoughts.
  Butler, A. C., & Beck, A. T. (1995). Cognitive therapy for depression. The Clinical Psychologist, 48(3), 3–5.
• David, D., Cristea, I., & Hofmann, S. G. (2018). Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is the Current Gold Standard of Psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry / Frontiers Research Foundation, 9, 4.
• Park, N., Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004). STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER AND WELL-BEING. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23, 603–619.
• Snyder, C. R., Rand, K. L., & Sigmon, D. R. (2002). Hope theory: A member of the positive psychology family. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (pp. 257–276). Oxford University Press.
• Young, J. E. (1990). Cognitive therapy for personality disorders: A schema-focused approach. Professional Resource Exchange.

Benefits of effective problem solving

• Nezu, A. M., & Nezu, C. M. (2001). Problem Solving Therapy. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 11(2), 187–205.
• Disengaging from advisor/cognitive defusion
  Levin, M. E., Hildebrandt, M. J., Lillis, J., & Hayes, S. C. (2012). The impact of treatment components suggested by the psychological flexibility model: a meta-analysis of laboratory-based component studies. Behavior Therapy, 43(4), 741–756.

b. Evidence for Discoverer interventions

• Benefits of mindfulness (Biegel et al., 2009)
  Awareness and acceptance of sensory input (Kolk, 2006; Pollatos et al., 2008; Farb et al., 2013)
  Skill at describing and labeling emotions (Gottman et al., 1996; Durlak et al., 2011; Kehoe et al., 2014)
  Skill at responding to feelings in an adaptive and non-impulsive way (Neumann et al., 2010; Hayes et al., 2011).
  Biegel, G. M. (2009). Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for the Treatment of Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. In K. W. Brown, S. L. Shapiro, & C. A. Schubert (Eds.), JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Vol. 77 (Issue 5 , pp. 855–866).
• D., D., & Hayes, J. (2011). What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. Psychotherapy, 48, 198–208.
• Durlak, J. A., Weissberg, R. P., & Dymnicki, A. B. (2011). The impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning: A meta‐analysis of school‐based universal interventions. The Child. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01564.x
• Farb, N. A. S., Segal, Z. V., & Anderson, A. K. (2013). Mindfulness meditation training alters cortical representations of interoceptive attention. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(1), 15–26.
• Gottman, J., Katz, L. F., & Hooven, C. (1996). Parental meta-emotion philosophy and the emotional life of families: Theoretical models and preliminary data. Journal of Family Psychology: JFP: Journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association , 10, 243–268.
• Kehoe, C. E., Havighurst, S. S., & Harley, A. E. (2014). Tuning in to Teens : Improving Parent Emotion Socialization to Reduce Youth Internalizing Difficulties. 23(2), 413–431.
• Neumann, A., van Lier, P. A. C., Gratz, K. L., & Koot, H. M. (2010). Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Assessment, 17(1), 138–149.
• Pollatos, O., Kurz, A.-L., Albrecht, J., Schreder, T., Maria, A., Schöpf, V., Kopietz, R., Wiesmann, M., & Schandry, R. (2008). Reduced perception of bodily signals in anorexia nervosa. Eating Behaviors, 9, 381–388.
• van der Kolk, B. A. (2006). Clinical implications of neuroscience research in PTSD. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1071, 277–293.
• Low noticer skill associated with poor mental health, poor social support, addiction, and mortality: Heaven, P. C. L., Ciarrochi, J., & Hurrell, K. (2010). The distinctiveness and utility of a brief measure of alexithymia for adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(3), 222–227.
• Lindsay, J., & Ciarrochi, J. (2009). Substance abusers report being more alexithymic than others but do not show emotional processing deficits on a performance measure of alexithymia. Addiction Research & Theory, 17(3), 315–321.
• Rowsell, H. C., Ciarrochi, J., Deane, F. P., & Heaven, P. C. L. (2016). Emotion identification skill and social support during adolescence: A three-year longitudinal study. Journal of Research on Adolescence: The Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 26(1), 115–125.

Evidence for discoverer interventions

Broaden and build theory

• Cohn, M. A., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2006). Beyond the Moment, Beyond the Self: Shared Ground between Selective Investment Theory and the Broaden-and-Build Theory of Positive Emotions. Psychological Inquiry, 17(1), 39–44.
• Fredrickson, B. L., & Losada, M. F. (2005). Positive affect and the complex dynamics of human flourishing. The American Psychologist, 60(7), 678–686.
• Adaptive expressions of openness to experience (Headey and Wearing, 1989; Davey et al., 2003) and curiosity (Kashdan et al., 2009)
• Davey, M., Eaker, D. G., & Walters, L. H. (2003). Resilience Processes in Adolescents: Personality Profiles, Self-Worth, and Coping. Journal of Adolescent Research, 18(4), 347–362.
• Epstein, D. (2019). Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Macmillan.
• Kashdan, T. B., Gallagher, M. W., Silvia, P. J., Winterstein, B. P., Breen, W. E., Terhar, D., & Steger, M. F. (2009). The curiosity and exploration inventory-II: Development, factor structure, and psychometrics. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(6), 987–998.

Low discoverer skill can be mapped to maladaptive forms of sensation seeking

• Roberti, J. W. (2004). A review of behavioral and biological correlates of sensation seeking. Journal of Research in Personality, 38(3), 256–279.

Discoverer interventions involve functional assessment

• Ramnerö, J., & Törneke, N. (2011). The ABCs of Human Behavior: Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician. New Harbinger Publications.
• Hurl, K., Wightman, J., Haynes, S. N., & Virues-Ortega, J. (2016). Does a pre-intervention functional assessment increase intervention effectiveness? A meta-analysis of within-subject interrupted time-series studies. Clinical Psychology Review, 47, 71–84.

Evidence for valuer interventions

• Cheon, S. H., Reeve, J., & Ntoumanis, N. (2018). A needs-supportive intervention to help PE teachers enhance students’ prosocial behavior and diminish antisocial behavior. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 35, 74–88.
• Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2017). Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness. Guilford Publications.
• Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Apfel, N., & Master, A. (2006). Reducing the racial achievement gap: a social-psychological intervention. Science, 1307(2006), 1307–1310.
• Cohen, G. L., & Sherman, D. K. (2014). The Psychology of Change: Self-Affirmation and Social Psychological Intervention. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 333–371.
• Creswell, J. D., Welch, W. T., Taylor, S. E., Sherman, D. K., Gruenewald, T. L., & Mann, T. (2005). Affirmation of personal values buffers neuroendocrine and psychological stress responses. Psychological Science, 16(11), 846–851.
• Páez-Blarrina, M., Luciano, C., Gutiérrez-Martínez, O., Valdivia, S., Rodríguez-Valverde, M., & Ortega, J. (2008). Coping with pain in the motivational context of values: comparison between an acceptance-based and a cognitive control–based protocol. Behavior Modification, 32(3), 403–422.
• Sherman, D. K., Hartson, K. A., Binning, K. R., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Garcia, J., Taborsky-Barba, S., Tomassetti, S., Nussbaum, A. D., & Cohen, G. L. (2013). Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(4), 591–618.
• Frost, Helen, Pauline Campbell, Margaret Maxwell, Ronan E. O’Carroll, Stephan U. Dombrowski, Brian Williams, Helen Cheyne, Emma Coles, and Alex Pollock. 2018. “Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing on Adult Behaviour Change in Health and Social Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Reviews.” PloS One 13 (10): e0204890.
• Huffman, Jeff C., Emily H. Feig, Rachel A. Millstein, Melanie Freedman, Brian C. Healy, Wei-Jean Chung, Hermioni L. Amonoo, et al. 2019. “Usefulness of a Positive Psychology-Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Promote Positive Affect and Physical Activity After an Acute Coronary Syndrome.” The American Journal of Cardiology 123 (12): 1906–14.

Evidence for benefits of strengthening the self or self-view

Self-compassion

• Biber, D. D., & Ellis, R. (2019). The effect of self-compassion on the self-regulation of health behaviors: A systematic review. Journal of Health Psychology, 24(14), 2060–2071.
• Breines, J. G., & Chen, S. (2012). Self-compassion increases self-improvement motivation. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(9), 1133–1143.
• Ferrari, M., Yap, K., Scott, N., Einstein, D. A., & Ciarrochi, J. (2018). Self-compassion moderates the perfectionism and depression link in both adolescence and adulthood. PloS One, 13(2), e0192022.
• Marshall, S. L., Parker, P. D., Ciarrochi, J., Sahdra, B., Jackson, C. J., & Heaven, P. C. L. (2015). Self-compassion protects against the negative effects of low self-esteem: A longitudinal study in a large adolescent sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 74, 116–121.
• Wilson, A. C., Mackintosh, K., Power, K., & Chan, S. W. Y. (2019). Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Related Therapies: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Mindfulness, 10(6), 979–995.

Flexible self-view: growth mindset, self-as-context

• Burnette, Jeni L., Laura E. Knouse, Dylan T. Vavra, Ernest O’Boyle, and Milan A. Brooks. 2020. “Growth Mindsets and Psychological Distress: A Meta-Analysis.” Clinical Psychology Review 77 (April): 101816.
• Sarrasin, Jérémie Blanchette, Lucian Nenciovici, Lorie-Marlène Brault Foisy, Geneviève Allaire-Duquette, Martin Riopel, and Steve Masson. 2018. “Effects of Teaching the Concept of Neuroplasticity to Induce a Growth Mindset on Motivation, Achievement, and Brain Activity: A Meta-Analysis.” Trends in Neuroscience and Education 12 (July): 22–31.
• Yeager, D. S., & Dweck, C. S. (2012). Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed. Educational Psychologist, 47(4), 302–314.
• Yu, L., Norton, S., & McCracken, L. M. (2017). Change in “Self-as-Context” (“Perspective-Taking”) Occurs in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for People With Chronic Pain and Is Associated With Improved Functioning. The Journal of Pain: Official Journal of the American Pain Society, 18(6), 664–672.
• Zettle, R. D., Gird, S. R., Webster, B. K., Carrasquillo-Richardson, N., Swails, J. A., & Burdsal, C. A. (2018). The Self-as-Context Scale: Development and preliminary psychometric properties. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 10, 64–74.

Evidence for benefits of strengthening social view

• Ciarrochi, J., Parker, P. D., Sahdra, B. K., Kashdan, T. B., Kiuru, N., & Conigrave, J. (2017). When Empathy Matters: The Role of Sex and Empathy in Close Friendships. Journal of Personality, 85(4), 494–504.
• Ciarrochi, J., Sahdra, B. K., Hawley, P. H., & Devine, E. K. (2019). The Upsides and Downsides of the Dark Side: A Longitudinal Study Into the Role of Prosocial and Antisocial Strategies in Close Friendship Formation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(FEB), 114. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00114/full
• Sahdra, B., Ciarrochi, J., Parker, P. D., Marshall, S., & Heaven, P. (2015). Empathy and nonattachment independently predict peer nominations of prosocial behavior of adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(MAR), 263.
• Hall, H. K., Millear, P. M. R., Summers, M. J., & Isbel, B. (2021). Longitudinal research on perspective taking in adolescence: A systematic review. Adolescent Research Review, 6(2), 125–150.
• Wolgast, A., Tandler, N., Harrison, L., & Umlauft, S. (2020). Adults’ Dispositional and Situational Perspective-Taking: a Systematic Review. Educational Psychology Review, 32(2), 353–389.