Metacognitive Therapy Versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:A Network Approach.

ABSTRACT: A network perspective on mental problems represents a new alternative to the latent variable perspective. Diagnoses are assumed to refer to a causal network of observable mental problems or symptoms (observables). The observable symptoms that traditionally have been considered indicators of latent traits (disorders) are taken to be directly related causal entities. Few studies have investigated how different therapies affect a network-structure of symptoms and processes. In this study, three anxiety symptoms, three depression symptoms and mechanisms in the form of cognitions, metacognitions, worry and threat monitoring were selected. The network structure over the course of therapy for metacognitive therapy (MCT) and Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was investigated. It was hypothesized

SUBMITTER: Johnson SU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288670 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature