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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
As a metacognitive therapist, I meet people who try to control their thoughts and feelings in various, sometimes creative, ways. People who try to get rid of certain thoughts, people who try to suppress their anxious feelings, …
In this series, I dwell on my own experiences of metacogntive therapy from my perspective as a therapist. In this post, I want to show you what role the focus of attention plays when it comes to …
Sometimes when I ask people about their goal of attending therapy, they might say that they want to get rid of negative thoughts and feelings, such as anxious or depressive thoughts. At other times, they might say …
