Metacognitive Therapy: Cognition Applied To Regulating Cognition

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 651-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Wells
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trials ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Thinking Style ◽  
Metacognitive Therapy ◽  
Full Treatment ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Highly Effective ◽  
Maladaptive Thinking ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Events Data

AbstractThe theory and principles of Metacognitive therapy (MCT) are described and data supporting its effects are summarized. MCT does not advocate challenging of negative automatic thoughts or traditional schemas. It proposes the existence of a universal maladaptive thinking style that causes disorder and focuses on helping patients regulate their cognition more adaptively. It aims to reduce worry and rumination and alter problematic patterns of attention and coping. In doing so it targets underlying metacognition that controls thinking and helps patients develop new ways of consciously experiencing inner events. Data from treatment studies suggest that individual MCT techniques and full treatment are highly effective. Further randomized trials are clearly warranted.

Cognitive-Behavioral Schemes and Their Repercussion Anxiety Personality Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Nelly Koleva
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Negative Thoughts ◽  
Individual Strategies ◽  
And Coping

This scientific work addresses two important aspects of personality with anxiety disorders - cognitive-behavioral patterns and the ability of the anxious person to deal with them. The specific research objective is focused on clarifying the substantive dimensions of negative automatic thoughts, positive thoughts such as the contraversion of negative thoughts and coping strategies in persons with anxiety disorders (panic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder) and in subjects studied without or with mild anxiety. Identifying relationships between automatic thoughts, anxiety, self-efficacy, and coping strategies. The results obtained are entirely oriented towards consultative practice and training technologies. Based on theoretical analysis and empirical research, the main goal is to: study the influence and interconnections between negative automatic thoughts, the influence of positive thoughts such as the contraversion of negative thoughts, anxiety, coping assessment - strategies for coping with unwanted thoughts in teens with anxiety disorders and in persons without anxiety or mild anxiety. This would lead to a better understanding of the problematic of cognitive-behavioral schemes and the identification of individual strategies to deal with unwanted negative thoughts and the creation of more appropriate individual and group therapeutic interventions to assist learners. In support of the accepted hypothesis, there is an association between personal inability and desire for change and the negative self-concept in students. The low self-esteem and powerlessness of teenagers in new conditions has been confirmed. A statistically significant correlation between these factors was found in the subjects with anxiety disorders.

A pilot study of attachment relationships, psychological problems and negative automatic thoughts among college students in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddrah Irfan ◽  
Nor Sheereen Zulkefly
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Peer Attachment ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Automatic Thought ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts

AbstractObjectivesThe present pilot study examined the associations between attachment relationships, psychological problems, and negative automatic thoughts among late adolescents in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.SubjectsA total of 98 participants (male = 49, female = 49) were recruited from government colleges in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.MethodsThe measures used to assess the research variables of this cross sectional study were the Inventory of Parent-Peer Attachment (IPPA-Urdu), Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-Urdu), and the Automatic Thought Questionnaire (ATQ-Urdu).ResultsAll of these measures had good reliabilities. Findings of the correlation analyses demonstrated that maternal, paternal and peer attachment relationships were negatively related to symptoms of depression and anxiety as well as to negative automatic thoughts. On the other hand, depressive and anxiety symptoms were positively associated with negative automatic thoughts. Additionally, findings suggested that future studies must investigate adolescents from two-parent households and exclude those with only one living parent.ConclusionThe results underscored the need for further investigations of the linkages between attachment relationships, negative automatic thoughts and psychological problems on larger samples.

scholarly journals Negative Life Events and Antenatal Depression among Pregnant Women in Rural China: The Role of Negative Automatic Thoughts

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. e0167597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Wang ◽  
Xiaohua Wang ◽  
Fangnan Liu ◽  
Xiaoning Jiang ◽  
Yun Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Negative Life Events ◽  
Antenatal Depression ◽  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts

Quick Control of Negative Automatic Thoughts

Depression ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Geoff Tomlinson ◽  
Dawn Slater
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts

Therapist Materials for Core Beliefs

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-192
Author(s):  
Heather Thompson-Brenner ◽  
Melanie Smith ◽  
Gayle Brooks ◽  
Rebecca Berman ◽  
Angela Kaloudis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Core Belief ◽  
Negative Automatic Thoughts ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Downward Arrow ◽  
Over Time

The session in this chapter looks at the concept of core beliefs and how negative automatic thoughts are related to negative core beliefs. Negative core beliefs are the roots from which different types of related automatic thoughts grow. Core beliefs arise from repeated similar experiences and powerful single experiences. Clients learn to identify their personal core beliefs (such as I am worthless, I am unlovable, I will go crazy) by using the downward arrow technique. Although arriving at a core belief and saying it out loud is an emotionally evocative experience, it’s a necessary part of the client’s work. It is also an opportunity for the therapist to hear the client and empathize with the client’s experience. Over time, the client builds a repertoire of experiences that allow for new core beliefs to form, making their original core beliefs less valid.

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