Jean-Louis Monestès

• Grenoble Alpes University

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive health crisis that has exerted enormous physical and psychological pressure. Mental healthcare for healthcare workers (HCWs) should receive serious consideration. This study served to determine the mental-health outcomes of 1,556 HCWs from 45 countries who participated in the COVID-19 IMPACT project, a...

This study aimed to compare the mediation of psychological flexibility, prosociality and coping in the impacts of illness perceptions toward COVID-19 on mental health among seven regions. Convenience sampled online survey was conducted between April and June 2020 from 9130 citizens in 21 countries. Illness perceptions toward COVID-19, psychological...

Objective: Illness perceptions (IP) are important predictors of emotional and behavioral responses in many diseases. The current study aims to investigate the COVID-19-related IP throughout Europe. The specific goals are to understand the temporal development, identify predictors (within demographics and contact with COVID-19) and examine the impac...

This article presents on how evolutionary principles constitute a rich framework for the everyday practice of psychotherapy. We propose that psychological issues constitute adaptations to restricted parts of the environment. The article presents concrete ways for practitioners to effectively use evolutionary science in their clinical work and to he...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic triggered vast governmental lockdowns. The impact of these lockdowns on mental health is inadequately understood. On the one hand such drastic changes in daily routines could be detrimental to mental health. On the other hand, it might not be experienced negatively, especially because the entire population was affec...

In this paper, we examined the psychometric properties of the English and French versions of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory short form (MPFI-24). Study 1 was conducted in the United States among the general population (N = 2,668) to assess the reliability and factorial validity of the English version. In Study 2, the MPFI-...

Experiential avoidance, the tendency to rigidly escape or avoid private psychological experiences, represents one of the most prominent transdiagnostic psychological processes with a known role in a wide variety of psychological disorders and practical contexts. Experiential avoidance is argued to be based on a fundamental verbal/cognitive process:...

The AFTCC Board of Directors, with the support of Elsevier, has voted to move the JTCC/JBCT towards an international format: the JBCT, an English-only journal aimed at publishing high-level research in the field of cognitive-behavioral psychology. In an effort to respond to members’ needs, a second journal will be created and entirely devoted to pu...

Rule-governed behaviours enable rapid acquisition of appropriate and often complex behaviour in novel contexts; however, this capacity can also make individuals insensitive to environmental contingencies. This problem may be exacerbated if rules propagate from one context to another through derived relational responding. Here we assessed whether in...

The Committed Action Questionnaire (CAQ-8) assesses the construct of committed action drawn from the Psychological Flexibility (PF) model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Despite the centrality of committed action in the PF model, there is no instrument available to assess committed action for French-speaking researchers and clinicians w...

Psychological flexibility, the ability to persist or change behavior even in the presence of challenging psychological events, was found as a central determinant of mental health and performance at work. Several studies showed that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) interventions improve psychological flexibility, wellbeing and performance, an...

Résumé Cette étude rapporte les propriétés psychométriques d’une version française du Questionnaire de fusion cognitive (Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire; CFQ). La fusion cognitive est l’un des concepts centraux de la thérapie d’acceptation et d’engagement (acceptance and commitment therapy; ACT), une forme de thérapie cognitive et comportementale (T...

Background: A growing number of studies have provided empirical support for the use of Acceptance and commitment Therapy (ACT) in the treatment of chronic pain. The psychological flexibility model can be seen as a basis for integration and progress in psychological approaches to pain (McCracken & Morley, 2014). Further research is needed to clarify...

We provide a reply to Herbert & Padovani's (in press) critique of the a-ontological stance embraced by functional contextualism. We propose that the selection of scientific models that "work well" relies on the goals scientists choose to pursue. The selection criterion for scientific models is set by scientists and does not prove the existence of a...

Background The disorganized and negative dimensions of schizotypy are characterized by cognitive disorganization and anhedonia, respectively. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between these two dimensions of schizotypy by taking into account ambivalence and the distinction between consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia.Meth...

A variety of cognitive mechanisms have been proposed to apprehend the maintenance of delusional beliefs, a typical feature of schizophrenia. However, none of these mechanisms takes into account the verbal properties of delusions. An alternative behavioral approach is proposed, which considers delusional beliefs as verbal rules and maintenance of de...

Beliefs about voices and reactions to voices have been proposed as important variables influencing the course of depression in schizophrenia. Consequences of auditory hallucinations are different according to identity, goals, omnipotence, omniscience, and meanings attributed to voices by the client. Ten to 15 % of the general population experience...

Objective Beliefs about voices and reactions to voices have been proposed as important variables influencing the course of depression in schizophrenia. Consequences of auditory hallucinations are different according to identity, goals, omnipotence, omniscience, and meanings attributed to voices by the client. Ten to 15 % of the general population e...

This study explored the criterion-validity of the Cognitive Slippage Scale (CSS) and the Schizotypal Ambivalence Scale (SAS). 27 first-degree relatives of individuals with schizophrenia (9 males, 18 females; M age=45.3 yr., SD=13) were compared with 30 first-degree relatives of non-psychotic patients (15 males, 15 females; M age = 44.6 yr., SD = 11...

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to present the characteristics of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the treatment of chronic pain. The historical context of the development of cognitive and behavioural therapy (CBT) for chronic pain will be described and the theoretical aspects of ACT will be introduced. The components of...

Cet article vise a presenter les particularites de la therapie d’acceptation et d’engagement (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ou « ACT ») dans l’intervention aupres de patients souffrant de douleur chronique. Il decrit le contexte historique du developpement des therapies comportementales et cognitives dans ce domaine et presente les fondements t...

First-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia may score higher on the Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (FCQ) than controls. The present study was designed to provide evidence of validity for the French version of the 24-item subscale of the Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (FCQ-24). In 27 first-degree relatives of patients with schizophre...

Long-term reliability of the Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (FCQ) was investigated in two follow-up studies of participants with psychosis using a test-retest method. In the first study (N = 56), the duration of the follow-up ranged from 6 months to 2 years; Spearman rho was .62 for the abridged (18 items) Spanish version of the questionnaire. I...

Impaired ability of identifying mental states is a characteristic of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In particular, people suffering from this illness tend to fail at attributing a belief to another, which has been linked to difficulties in changing interpersonal perspective. Following the view of Relational Frame Theory on perspective-taking ski...

Introduction: Dependent personality disorder is a new diagnosis introduced in the third version of the DSM (DSM-III). Contrary to other disorders of personality, as the borderline or the schizotypal personalities, there are no specific interviews or questionnaires focusing on dependent personality. Thus the study of dependent personality disorder...

Objectives Using complementary methods, Gard et al. (2007) [13] reported that schizophrenia patients reported as much pleasure in the moment as controls in their daily lives and on a measure of trait consummatory pleasure (consummatory subscale of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale [TEPS-CONS]) but the schizophrenia patients reported experie...

Avoidance of painful psychological experience has been chosen as the prime target by several new therapeutic approaches derived from cognitive and behavioral therapies. Attempts to suppress unpleasant emotional events lead to a loss of psychological flexibility strongly correlated with a significant number and variety of psychological disorders. Th...

The aim of the present study was to explore the stability of anhedonia and its relationships with schizophrenic symptoms across a 13-year study period. We tested the hypothesis that trait anhedonia, rated by the Physical Anhedonia Scale (PAS), was stable and independent of schizophrenic symptoms across this period, while measures of state anhedonia...

The high-risk approach based on the definition of schizotypy by Meehl (The American Psychologist 1962;17:827-38) and the basic symptom approach proposed by Huber (Fortschritte für Neurologie und Psychiatrie 1957;25:491-520) share many points in common. In particular, several studies have shown that high scores on psychosis proneness or subjective e...

This article presents the theoretical foundations, clinical methodology and first results of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT was developed over the past 20 years on the basis of behavior analytic research on language and human cognition. At the core of this approach lies the principle that the symbolic properties of language render any...

Patients with schizophrenia show high susceptibility to distraction but the neural mechanisms underlying sensitivity to distraction are not clearly established. We designed a paradigm to assess whether sensitivity to distraction and dorsal stream dysfunction are related in schizophrenia. 60 patients, 37 schizotypals, and 58 healthy controls were as...

Des difficultés en théorie de l’esprit (TdE), une capacité à inférer chez autrui des états mentaux, intentions et émotions, ont été observées de façon répétée chez les personnes présentant une personnalité schizotypique ou atteintes de schizophrénie. Une tendance à effectuer des choix de façon hâtive dans des situations de raisonnement probabiliste...

Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as a capacity to infer mental states, intentions, and emotions in others. Two principal theories in the field of cognitive psychology have tried to explain mechanisms underlying this capacity. Theory-theory hypothesizes that people interpret cues from others in social interactions with a folk psychology composed of d...

We examined the effect of attentional load on attentional capture in schizophrenia. On the basis of the ''resource limitations hypothesis'' in schizophrenia, we propose that attentional capture by an irrelevant distractor will be differentially affected by the attentional load for patients and healthy controls. 70 patients with schizophrenia, 15 sc...

The Frankfurt Complaint Questionnaire (FCQ) is a questionnaire designed to evaluate the subjective symptoms of schizophrenics. In schizophrenic samples, several validation studies of the FCQ using principal components analyses (PCA) have shown a one-factor solution. The aim of the present study was firstly to examine the factor structure and the ps...

The current study aimed to compare deictic relational responding and Theory of Mind (ToM) performances in 60 non-clinical young adults with a profile of high versus low social anhedonia in order to investigate a possible link between social anhedonia and ToM functioning. The results indicated that social anhedonic participants were less accurate th...

Les traductions et une première étude de validation des versions françaises des échelles de dérapage cognitif (EDC) de Miers et Raulin ont été réalisées chez trois groupes de sujets (158 sujets non cliniques avec 128 étudiants sains et 30 sujets « tout-venant » sains, 167 sujets cliniques avec 106 sujets hospitalisés en hôpital général et 61 sujets...

The aim of this article is firstly to present the French translations of the Cognitive Slippage (Miers and Raulin, 1987) and the Schizotypal Ambivalence Scales (Raulin, 1986), and secondly to determine their psychometric properties in different samples of non-clinical and clinical subjects. Chapman et al. have developed trait-oriented scales based...

Avoidance is a mechanism recognized as giving rise to phenomenon sustaining chronic pain. The concept of kinesiphobia is a well-documented example. Mindfulness therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, two psychotherapeutic models expanding cognitive and behavioral therapy, have been developed over recent years for the management of different...

Cognitive behavior therapies (CBT) for psychosis have been evaluated for nearly 10 years. They are still under-utilised in France. Efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy has been tested in a great number of studies. CBT for psychosis aims at decreasing the consequences of hallucinations, formulating alternative explanations, and modifying delusiona...

We present several theoretical cognitive and behavioral models which have been developed to better apprehend the development and persistence of chronic pain. In this brief review, we propose a description of the central concepts of these models relative to the phenomenon of chronic pain. The four main models, classical, operant and social condition...

We present several theoretical cognitive and behavioral models which have been developed to better apprehend the development and persistence of chronic pain. In this brief review, we propose a description of the central concepts of these models relative to the phenomenon of chronic pain. The four main models, classical, operant and social condition...