Belief change in cognitive-behavioural therapy
Belief change in cognitive-behavioural therapy
The literature review 'Belief change in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT): what do current cognitive models propose are the cognitions that should be targets for CBT? What is the evidence that these cognitions change during cognitive therapy for depression?' considers the evidence for Beck's (1967;1976) theory that dysfunctional cognitions maintain depression and that CBT alleviates depression by altering these cognitions. The review suggests that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that substantial cognitive change occurs during CBT and that this change alone leads to distress reduction. Alternative models of the mechanism of change in CBT are introduced and the review then makes recommendations for further research to investigate the process of change in CBT.
The empirical paper 'Belief change in CBT for people with auditory-hallucinations' presents a single-case multiple-baseline design study investigating the impact of three components of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) proposed to be the active factors in CBT for psychosis, on negative self-evaluative beliefs, delusional beliefs and distress levels. The study also explored the relationship between the two target beliefs. Four individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (DSM IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) and treatment resistant, subjectively distressing voices, participated.
Formulation had little or no impact on belief conviction or levels of distress. For two participants a reduction in conviction in negative self-evaluative beliefs generalised to a reduction in conviction in delusional beliefs. For all participants there was a positive correlation between the two beliefs.
University of Southampton
Williams, Clare Anne
e04a64a8-8cfd-40b8-965d-32de36904351
2000
Williams, Clare Anne
e04a64a8-8cfd-40b8-965d-32de36904351
Williams, Clare Anne
(2000)
Belief change in cognitive-behavioural therapy.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The literature review 'Belief change in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT): what do current cognitive models propose are the cognitions that should be targets for CBT? What is the evidence that these cognitions change during cognitive therapy for depression?' considers the evidence for Beck's (1967;1976) theory that dysfunctional cognitions maintain depression and that CBT alleviates depression by altering these cognitions. The review suggests that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that substantial cognitive change occurs during CBT and that this change alone leads to distress reduction. Alternative models of the mechanism of change in CBT are introduced and the review then makes recommendations for further research to investigate the process of change in CBT.
The empirical paper 'Belief change in CBT for people with auditory-hallucinations' presents a single-case multiple-baseline design study investigating the impact of three components of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) proposed to be the active factors in CBT for psychosis, on negative self-evaluative beliefs, delusional beliefs and distress levels. The study also explored the relationship between the two target beliefs. Four individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (DSM IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) and treatment resistant, subjectively distressing voices, participated.
Formulation had little or no impact on belief conviction or levels of distress. For two participants a reduction in conviction in negative self-evaluative beliefs generalised to a reduction in conviction in delusional beliefs. For all participants there was a positive correlation between the two beliefs.
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