Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression

By A. Wells. 2008

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Attentional control moderates the relationship between activation of the cognitive attentional syndrome and symptoms of psychopathology (2012, unknown): “Such metacognitive beliefs purportedly lead to the development of a propensity for responding to negative thoughts, feelings, and beliefs with CAS-relevant coping strategies that maintain negative emotionality and strengthen maladaptive beliefs (Wells, 2009).”
Mental fortitude training: An evidence-based approach to developing psychological resilience for sustained success (2016, background): “Individuals should be accepting and non-judgmental about any negative thoughts so that they can begin, when they are ready, to adapt how they respond to such thoughts and beliefs (Perfect & Schwartz, 2002; Wells, 2011).”
Evaluating metacognitive self-reports: systematic reviews of the value of self-report in metacognitive research (2020, background): “Furthermore, therapies grounded in metacognition have been successful in treating those with mental health conditions (Wells 2011).”
Meta-awareness, perceptual decoupling and the wandering mind. (2011, unknown): “Strategies such as mindfulness training [86], metacognitive regulation [87], behavioral feedback [88] or biofeedback [89], attentional training [90] and implementation intentions [91] are among the many approaches that could prove useful in maximizing the value and minimizing the costs of mind…”
Advances in Metacognitive Therapy (2013, background): “Treatment manuals are available for a range of disorders (Wells, 2009).”
The development and initial validation of the cognitive fusion questionnaire. (2014, background): “Decentering or ‘metacognitive awareness’ refers to the capacity to take a detached view of one’s thoughts and emotions (Fresco et al., 2007; Teasdale et al., 2002; Wells, 2008; 2009).”
Emotional intelligence: A promise unfulfilled? (2012, unknown): “For example, Western metacognitive therapy (Wells, 2009) is based on attentiontraining techniques that promote detached mindfulness, so that patients can experience anxiety without the experience leading to dysfunctional worries or avoidant behaviors.”
Beyond words: Sensory properties of depressive thoughts (2013, background): “Somewhat more modest psychometric properties have been reported for major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, PTSD, specific phobia and panic disorder without agoraphobia (sensitivity: .80–.93; specificity: .44–.51; Donker et al., 2009).”
Metacognition in Psychology (2019, methodology): “with patients’ metacognition to improve psychological functioning and mental health? or (b) Does an assumed metacognitive deficit reflect the same construct in all psychopathology or does it differ from condition to condition? Metacognition in the field of clinical psychology has been dominated by t”
The Metacognitive Demands and Opportunities of Generative AI (2023, background): “Studies have shown that improved metacognition helps individuals with management of time, focus, and effort [212], problem-solving [67], academic performance [45, 52, 106, 126, 180, 214], emotional well-being [200], and overall decision-making [206].”
Reflecting on rumination: Consequences, causes, mechanisms and treatment of rumination. (2020, background): “metacognitive beliefs about the negative consequenc es of rumination (Wells, 2009).”
Metacognitive Therapy: Cognition Applied To Regulating Cognition (2008, methodology): “There is a large database supporting the metacognitive theory of emotional disorder (Wells, 2000, 2008 for reviews) and a smaller but emerging database on the effects of treatment and individual techniques.”