Cognitive therapy: Looking backward, looking forward

Cognitive Mediation of Panic Severity: The Role of Catastrophic Misinterpretation of Bodily Sensations and Panic Self-Efficacy

“…Marks, Basoglu, & Noshirvani, 1994;Seligman, 1988;Wolpe & Rowan, 1988). Within the current movement towards rapprochement and integration within the psychotherapy field, the onus is on practitioners of CBT even more clearly than before to coherently account for change in theory-specific terms (Dobson & Khatri, 2000).…”

Investigation of the Phase Model of Psychotherapy Across Therapeutic Orientations: Are Different Approaches Actually All That Different?

“…Despite their apparently similar effectiveness, the two therapies posit quite different theoretical bases for therapeutic improvement, as well as different therapeutic techniques. The focus of CT is on symptoms and the thought processes that underlie them (Beck, 2005;Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979;Dobson & Khatri, 2000;Kanter, Rusch, Holman, Whiteside, Landes & Sedivy, 2009) and thus may be summarized as being chiefly concerned with the remediation phase of the model. IPT, on the other hand, primarily targets interpersonal conflicts and the processes that underlie relational patterns (Blanco, Clougherty, Lipsitz, Mufson, Weissman, 2006;Evans, 1996;Hoffman-King & Giles, 2010;Klerman, Weissman, Rounsaville & Chevron, 1984;Poleshuck, Gamble, Cort, Cerrito, Rosario-McCabe, Sundberg, 2001;Weissman & Markowitz, 2005), which reflects the rehabilitation phase of the model since this relates to social role functioning and interpersonal distress.…”

“…Cognitive psychotherapy is a therapeutic orientation which came about as a reaction to the psychoanalytic zeitgeist of the psychiatric world over 40 years ago (Dobson & Khatri, 2000) and later, to some extent as a reaction to the strictly behavioral approaches which were advocated in organizations such as the Association for Advancement of Behavioral Therapies (AABT) which later became the Association for Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT; Meichenbaum, 2003). Due to the sheer volume of the body of research concerning CT, a comprehensive review of this literature is not appropriate for the current study and thus a number of representative recent studies is covered in the literature review in order to illustrate some pertinent issues relating to the current paper.…”

“…These biased interpretations result in the individual experiencing distress and are informed by the client holding what Beck calls a range of maladaptive "irrational beliefs" which then coagulate to form negative cognitive schemas (Beck, Rush, Shaw & Emery, 1979). Central to the theory and application of cognitive psychotherapy is the proposition that cognitive processes mediate behavioral change and thus in order to change behavior, one must change cognitions (Dobson & Khatri, 2000). The focus on issues in the present, as they occur in psychotherapy and in the client's outside life, was highlighted by Kanter and colleagues (Kanter, Rusch, Holman, Whiteside, Landes & Sedivy, 2009).…”

“…Cognitive psychotherapy's ultimate goal has been identified as being cognitive change which manifests itself directly in the cessation of maladaptive behaviors and the emergence of adaptive ones in their place (Dobson & Khatri, 2000). This has, in part, led to cognitive psychotherapy accruing extensive empirical support and may be one of the reasons for the preeminent place the psychotherapy now hold in modern psychotherapeutic theory and practice.…”