Brief Self-Compassion Intervention for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes and Disordered Eating Behaviour

INTERVENTION: The study is a randomised controlled trial where participants will participate in a brief self‐compassion intervention, either starting straight away (intervention group) or starting 4‐weeks after the intervention group finishes (wait‐list control group). The brief self‐compassion intervention will involve two 2.5 hour sessions (one week apart) in groups of 10 participants and will include group activities, meditations and individual reflections. Themes and topics of these activities will include: mindful self‐compassion, mindfulness, adolescent brain development and self‐esteem vs self‐compassion. These activities are taken from the 'Making Friends with Yourself' self‐compassion 8‐week program for teens teacher manual, with permission given from the developer, Karen Bluth. As per the standardised 8‐week program, participants will be given the standardised handout booklet (only including activities that are incorporated in this brief version) and audio recordings of meditations (made available by Karen Bluth's 'Making Friends with Yourself' program). Participants are given examples of situations to use these resources (e.g., mindfulness activities, meditations) and encouraged to try out the different activities to find ones that work well for them. The sessions will be conducted at the Greenlane Diabetes Clinic (where participants attend their clinic appointments), face‐to‐face. The sessions will be conducted by a trained teacher of the 'Making Friends with Yourself' self‐compassion program for teens, who is also a Master of Health Psychology candidate. CONDITION: Mental Health ‐ Eating disorders Metabolic and Endocrine ‐ Diabetes Type 1 Diabetes;Disordered Eating Behaviour; ; Type 1 Diabetes ; Disordered Eating Behaviour PRIMARY OUTCOME: Disordered eating behaviour assessed by the Diabetes Eating Problem Survey Revised (DEPS‐R; Markowitz et al., 2010).[Baseline and at 4‐weeks follow‐up.] SECONDARY OUTCOME: Diabetes‐related distress assessed by the Problems Areas in Diabetes Survey (PAID; Polonsky et al., 1995).[Baseline and at 4‐weeks follow‐up.] Metabolic control (glycosylated hemoglobin/ HbA1c), collected routinely as part of standard care.[The most recent HbA1c collected prior to intervention and at 4‐weeks follow‐up.] Self care behaviours assessed by the Self Care Inventory‐Revised Version (SCI‐R; Weinger, Butler, Welch, & La Greca, 2005).[Baseline and at 4‐weeks follow‐up.] Self‐compassion assessed by the Self‐Compassion Scale, short form (SCS‐SF; Raes, Pommier, Neff, & Van Gucht, 2011).[Baseline and at 4‐weeks follow‐up.] Stress assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1993).[Baseline and at 4‐weeks follow‐up.] INCLUSION CRITERIA: Adolescents will be eligible if they score both moderate (scoring 10 and above) and high (scoring 20 or above) levels of disordered eating behaviour.