Effective Treatment Principles Turned Into a Child’s Guide Manny and Max On The Rise is a child’s guide for children aged 5–10 years. It’s a book for children’s caregivers or their caring readers as well. Key Features: …
Metacognitive therapy (hereafter MCT) is a rather new and effective treatment for anxiety disorders. Studies comparing MCT with usual treatment find MCT superior (1, 2). A 2024 meta-analysis shows that metacognitive beliefs are present in children …
The Brainheimers – Book Trailer You can get it here at Amazon. The audiobook can be found on Audible, Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Deezer, and these streaming sites in the next couple of days. A …
A new meta-analysis by Thingbak and colleagues (2024) finds that metacognitive beliefs are related to emotional dysregulation in children and adolescents, aged 7-18 years, in a sample of almost 10,000 participants. The same has been found in …
In 2017, Capobianco, Morrison, and Wells conducted an experiment to asses how the belief in the importance of thoughts (a negative metacognitive belief) affects people’s stress responses. 75 students (54 women, 21 men) participated in the experiment, and …
Each post is a 5 min read into Metacognitive Therapy. While it took me 25 hours to write these blog posts, it will take you about 30 minutes to read them all. Enjoy your dive. Introduction to …
Is physical activity really as effective as antidepressants and psychotherapy for treating symptoms of depression and anxiety? The largest review so far, summing up the results of over 1000 studies (all randomized controlled trials), shows that the …
I can resist everything except temptation – Oscar Wilde If you are having problems with cravings, this is a post about one mechanism that maintains it according to research. A study shows that desire thinking underlies addictive …
In this post, I follow up on how detached mindfulness can be applied in therapy and in everyday situations. This is my last post in the series Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist. You may want …
Detached mindfulness is being aware of having a thought while leaving it alone. In metacognitive therapy, it is often helpful to practice a basic treatment component called detached mindfulness (DM) to facilitate meta-level change and to reduce …
