A study published in the special Research Topic on Metaognitive Therapy in Frontiers of Psychology finds that the Attention Training Technique is associated with neurophysiological changes consistent with enhanced executive…
A clinical trial just published in British Journal of Psychiatry Open finds MCT to be more effective than gold standard CBT in the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). The results add…
Research highlight: Carter & Wells (2018) evaluated the use of the attention training technique on auditory hallucinations in schizo-affective disorder in a single case study. The study tested the impact…
Rosenbaum et al (2018) evaluated the neurophysiological correlates of the Attention Training Technique (ATT). More specifically they aimed to evlauate the effect of the componenets of ATT (selective attention, attention…
Research Highlight: Bright et al (2018) validated the MCQ-30 in an at risk for psychosis population. A comprehensive range of psychometric tests including confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses, found that…
The trial protocol for the PATHWAY study which is evaluating group-based metacognitive therapy for anxiety and depression in cardiac patients has recently been published in the Springer-Nature journal TRIALS. You…
Rochat, Manolov & Billieux (2017) conducted a meta-analysis of single case studies to evaluate the efficacy of MCT in improving mental health. 14 studies were included. MCT was found to…
A recent study provides further evidence that the Attention Training Technique can improve delay of gratification in young children. Such delay is considered important because other studies have shown that…
Capobianco, Morris & Wells (2018) compared the effects of worry, rumination and distraction on affective and physiological recovery from stress. Skin conductance was used to evaluate physiological recovery from stress.…
Capobianco, Morrison & Wells (2017) conducted an experimental manipulation of negative metacognitive beliefs to evaluate the effect of thought importance (negative metacognitive belief) on stress responses. All participants underwent a…
Capobianco & Wells (2017) recently wrote a letter to the editor regarding the importance of labelling psychological therapies appropriately, in particular the use of metacognitive therapy (MCT; Wells, 2000) and…
The most common treatment approaches for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).Although both treatments have shown to be effective…
Dr Robin Bailey, a senior lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire wrote an article on co-rumination. Dr. Bailey highlighted the negative impacts of co-rumination and the benefits of theraputic…
Capobianco, Reeves, Morrison & Wells (2017) coducted a feasibility trial comparing group metacognitive therapy (MCT) versus mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) in a transdiagnostic group. Patients were randomly assigned to either…
Last week we attended the European Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies Conference. It was an exciting few days of workshops, keynotes and symposiums! Here’s a quick roundup of some…
Research highlight: Very interesting article on the role of metacognition and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in psychosis. A recent study by Hagen, Solem, Opstad, Hansen & Hagen (2017) evaluated if metacognition and…
Research Feature: Social Anxiety and Work Status: The Role of Negative Metacognitive Beliefs, Symptom Severity and Cognitive-Behavioural Factors (Nordahl & Wells, 2017) Psychological health has a profound effect on personal…
Research Feature: A recent study compared Metacognitive therapy versus disorder-specific CBT for comorbid anxiety disorders. Johnson, Hoffart, Nordahl, and Wampold (2017) found that both treatments were effective for patients with…
Research Feature: Multidimensional scoring of the MCQ-30 is supported in an independent study by Fergus and Bardeen but the total score is also useful. For the full paper on the…
A recent meta-analysis by Sun, Zhu and Ho-Wai So (2017) found that metacognition was common across psychological disorders. The results support the S-REF model which states that dysfunctional metacognitions are…
A recent study by Nordahl & Wells (2017) found that the metacognitive model that emphasised negative metacognitive beliefs about the uncontrollability and danger of thoughts and cognitive confidence was a significantly…
Exciting research on cognitive & metacognitive predictors of symptom improvement in social anxiety disorder! A recent study found that although both cognitive and metacognitive beliefs decreased throughout treatment in patients…
Treatment enhanced with MCT techniques is highly effective in treating social anxiety. Please click here to view the attached document. Read the paper here: https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/447013.
A 30-month follow-up study of patients treated with MCT or Intolerance of uncertainty therapy showed that both treatments maintained their gains but MCT remained superior statistically and clinically with patients…
In a recent study published in a special issue of the Journal: Cognitive Therapy and Research metacogniitve therapy was compared with exposure therapy and a control condition in the treatment…
A recently published meta-analysis by independent researchers at the Universities of Copenhagen and Amsterdam examined the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy (MCT) for anxiety and depression. In a paper published in…
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University of Sussex report 2 studies in: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology that begin to answer this important question. The study…
A Dutch group of Clinical Psychologists have published the results of a large scale trial examining the effects of MCT when compared with a form of CBT in the treatment…
A randomised controlled trial just published in Journal of Clinical Psychology demonstrated that 8 sessions of MCT was highly effective in the treatment of chronic PTSD with 80% of patients…
