The first four phases comprise multiple modes of focussed, unobtrusive observation of professionals at work, to enable us to trace the conceptualisation and enactment of safety as revealed in dialogue and narrative, use of artefacts and space, bodily activity and patterns of movement, and in the accomplishment of specific work tasks.
In view of the merits of OFGs as described above, and the awareness that young patients and their parents are hard to include in group discussions, we expected the online mode of focus group discussions the best choice for this population.
Different modes of psychotherapy focus variously on emotional experience, cognitive processing, and overt behaviour.
Previous research suggests distinct modes of self-focus, each with distinct functional properties: Analytical self-focus appears maladaptive, with experiential self-focus having more adaptive effects on indices of cognitive-affective functioning (e.g., Watkins, Moberly, & Moulds, 2008).
Astronomy is a speculative science that has as its object the magnitude of celestial bodies and the distance between them (DOS 72), whereas optics is defined as the speculative science that has as its object the diverse modes of vision, focusing on the nature of visual rays.
Two distinct modes of self-focus during rumination have been identified that have distinct functional properties with respect to depression (Watkins and Moulds 2005; Watkins and Teasdale 2004).
In particular, investigation of ways one can direct attention to subjective experience has suggested a distinction between two modes of self-focus: analytical/ruminative vs. experiential (Teasdale, 1999; Watkins & Teasdale, 2001, 2004).
The universal anti-attack mode of his focus group suggested, he said, that "we live in an age of pleasantry" when attacks function like an inward-facing "circular firing squad" and wound the attackers.
An experiential mode of self-focus can be induced by instructing participants to "focus attention on the experience of their thoughts and feelings" thus encouraging direct moment-to-moment focus (e.g., Watkins & Teasdale, 2004).
The aim of this experiment was to explore the hypothesis that analytical self-focus in patients with EDs would have more detrimental effects on emotional processing than an experiential mode of self-focus.
