Detached Mindfulness In Cognitive Therapy: A Metacognitive Analysis And Ten Techniques

By A. Wells. 2005

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Open, aware, and active: contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. (2011, background): “Metacognitive Therapy (MCT; Wells 2000) emphasizes changing attentional processes to alter the relation to thoughts instead of attempting to change thoughts themselves.”
Metacognitive Therapy: Cognition Applied To Regulating Cognition (2008, methodology): “MCT therefore incorporates techniques such as attention training (Wells, 1990), detached mindfulness (Wells and Matthews, 1994; Wells, 2005) and situational attentional refocusing (Wells and Papageorgiou, 1998) to modify and develop the necessary procedural or “how to” (i.e. experiential)…”
Metacognitive Therapy in Recurrent and Persistent Depression: A Multiple-Baseline Study of a New Treatment (2009, methodology): “This was followed by training patients in ‘detached mindfulness’ (Wells and Matthews 1994; Wells 2005) coupled with rumination postponement experiments which challenge the belief that rumination is uncontrollable.”
Development and Validation of the Japanese Version of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (2011, background): “attention, reduced analytical and evaluative processing, and reduced maladaptive coping (Wells 2005).”
Mindfulness and De-Automatization (2013, background): “A de-centered perspective, by enabling a suspension of conceptual meaning-based processing, can lead to cessation of elaborative thoughts (Wells, 2006).”