Changing negative core beliefs with trial-based thought record
Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (Impr.)
;
43(2): 31-33, Mar.-Apr. 2016. tab
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ABSTRACT
Background:
Trial-based thought record (TBTR) is a technique used in trial-based cognitive therapy (TBCT), and simulates a court trial. It was designed to restructure unhelpful core beliefs (CBs) during psychotherapy.Objective:
To confirm previous findings on the efficacy of TBTR in decreasing patients' adherence to self-critical and unhelpful CBs and corresponding emotions, as well as assessing the differential efficacy of the empty-chair approach relative to the static format of TBTR.Methods:
Thirty-nine outpatients were submitted to a 50-minute, one-session, application of the TBTR technique in the empty-chair (n = 18) or conventional (n = 21) formats. Patients' adherence to unhelpful CBs and the intensity of corresponding emotions were assessed after each step of TBTR, and the results obtained in each format were compared.Results:
Significant reductions in percent values both in the credit given to CBs and in the intensity of corresponding emotions were observed at the end of the session (p < .001), relative to baseline values. ANCOVA also showed a significant difference in favor of the empty-chair format for both belief credit and emotion intensity (p = .04).Discussion:
TBTR may help patients reduce adherence to unhelpful CBs and corresponding emotions and the empty-chair format seems to be more efficacious than the conventional format.
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Main subject:
Psychotherapy
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Attitude
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (Impr.)
Journal subject:
Psychiatry
Year:
2016
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)/BR
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University of São Paulo School of Medicine/BR
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