Epistemic Trust and Its Implications for Psychopathology - Chloe Campbell, PhD (Recorded)
The presentation will provide an introduction to the concept of epistemic trust and its recent application to developmental psychopathology. Epistemic trust refers to trust in communication or communicated knowledge, and has been implicated in both social learning and psychopathology, as a result of disruptions in the capacity to adopt an appropriate epistemic strategy in relation to social information. These ideas were initially based on experimental work by developmental psychologists but in order to develop a broader empirical basis for this thinking, we have recently created and validated a questionnaire assessing epistemic stance (ES)–the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust and Credulity Questionnaire (ETMCQ). Initial findings will be described that suggest intriguing links between the epistemic stance and developmental psychopathology constructs. Mistrust and Credulity scores were associated with childhood adversity and higher scores on the global psychopathology severity index and both factors partially mediated the link between early adversity and mental health symptoms. Mistrust and Credulity were positively associated with difficulties in understanding mental states and insecure attachment styles. The implications of the theory and these findings will be discussed in relation to psychotherapeutic treatments, particularly in relation to personality disorders and working with groups who have been traditionally labelled as “hard to reach.”
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
Describe the concept of epistemic trust and its relationship to developmental psychopathology.
Explain extant research findings.
Apply the implications of the theory of epistemic trust for understanding psychological treatments.
Chloe Campbell, PhD, is deputy director of the Psychoanalysis Unit at the University College London (UCL). Her research interests include mentalizing, epistemic trust and attachment theory. She recently created and validated a new measure of epistemic trust, the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust and Credulity Scale. She is series editor of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families (AFNCCF) Best Practice series of books and works clinically with children and young people at the AFNCCF. Campbell was educated at Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and SOAS, University of London. Recent publications include
- Bateman, A., Campbell, C., & Fonagy, P. (2021). Rupture and Repair in Mentalization-Based Group Psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 71(2), 371-339.
- Campbell, C., Tanzer, M., Saunders, R., Booker, T., Allison, E., Li, E., . . . Fonagy, P. (2021). Development and validation of a self-report measure of epistemic trust. PLoS One.
- Fonagy, P., & Campbell, C. (2021). Future directions in personality pathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 37, 145-151.
- Fonagy, P., Campbell, C., Constantinou, M., Higgitt, A., Allison, E., & Luyten, P. (2021). Culture and psychopathology: An attempt at reconsidering the role of social learning. Development and Psychopathology, 1-16.
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As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0115.
- 1.00 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this. Social workers completing this Enduring course will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s).
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