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"The procedures Wells describes will be enormously useful to therapists of all persuasions, and can form the bedrock of low-intensity and high-intensity interventions for a wide range of disorders." - Chris R. Brewin, University College London, UK
"As a clinician who has struggled with helping people work through dysfunctional thinking patterns, I can appreciate the usefulness of Wells's methods. Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) helps both the patient and the therapist take a step back from the sometimes repetitive work of cognitive therapy, and lends a new perspective with the potential for breaking through treatment roadblocks. Well done!" - Monica Ramirez Basco, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
"This book presents a new and innovative approach that focuses on how patients think, as much as what they believe. It is firmly grounded in basic science and packed full of powerful clinical strategies... Should prove to be a valuable tool for graduate training across the professional disciplines." - Steven D. Hollon, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA
"Clinicians who read this revolutionary book will be able to utilize techniques found nowhere else." - Robert L. Leahy, New York Presbyterian Hospital, USA
"MCT is a new and novel treatment and an exciting addition to the third wave of behavior therapy... Therapists trained in more traditional CBT will undoubtedly be very interested in how some of the MCT techniques might work with their current patients who are seemingly 'stuck.'" - PsycCRITIQUES
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This groundbreaking book explains the "whats" and "how-tos" of Metacognitive Therapy (MCT), an innovative form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy with a growing empirical evidence base. MCT developer Adrian Wells shows that much psychological distress results from how a person responds to negative thoughts and beliefs – for example, by ruminating or worrying – rather than the content of those thoughts. He presents practical techniques and specific protocols for addressing metacognitive processes to effectively treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and major Depression. Special features include reproducible treatment plans and assessment and case formulation tools, plus a wealth of illustrative case material.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book delivers. It is one of the few recent publications that every psychotherapist should read. It is well written, theoretically very sound, and practical. Although it may seem this way when reading the introduction, this is nor "cookbook" or an easy take on therapy. The theoretical chapters are the results of years of work by Wells and colleagues. They do require some studying because the concepts, although clearly presented, are not that easy to understand at first. The practical part of the book may give the idea that you can start treating right away, which is not the case. Being a cognitive behaviour therapist and forensic psychologist and having had some training by Adrian Wells himself on MCT, I can say that it is absolutely necessary to fully understand the theoretical part in order to get the treatment right. That said, however, this approach works and is substantiated by growing clinical research.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Over the last ten years I have gone through many of the different counselling programmes on offer through the NHS, including basic counselling, trauma counselling, CBT and Beat the Blues- not to mention the thousands spent on private treatments. Some of these treatments offered short term improvements, but none provided long lasting gains I could retain.
The physical response of my anxiety was so great, at one point I had to have an operation to enable me to urinate properly. The heart palpitations perfectly mimicked what I imagine having a heart attack would be like and the constantly active mind (worry) sent me into bouts of spiralling depression with no escape in sight.
My search for a cure to what started off as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and later developed into the broader Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) led me to a book called `Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders' (same author), which in turn led to this current publication.
The book is very well written and there is minimal technical jargon in it. It is aimed at practitioners, rather than to be used as a self-help guide, but, nonetheless after some time spent slowly digesting the relevant chapters, massive gains can be achieved.
The concepts are logical and the content is fairly straight forward after the initial understanding. There are individual rating scales, treatment plans and process diagrams for GAD, OCD, PTSD and MDD, plus more general chapters which detail the common themes.
There are examples of behaviour, which I could immediately relate to and begin to question my own behaviours. Hypothetical questions gave me something productive to think about, stimulated recovery and enabled me to see the bigger picture. There are experiments to challenge unhelpful beliefs and enable new, more helpful counter evidence to generate a `new plan' for processing information.
The book clearly describes the technique of `Detached Mindfulness', which is a key component to the therapy. This allows thoughts to be treated as `events in the mind', rather that actively engaging with them in the first place. This means that the content of thoughts and worries is largely irrelevant and things can be treated in a more logical problem solving manner.
I cannot rate this book highly enough. From a personal perspective it has turned my life around and the future (which wasn't looking too promising) is now looking bright. In my opinion, the NHS fails to successfully treat conditions like mine and advances such as this have the potential to save large amounts of money- I'm sure I have cost the tax-payer a small fortune unnecessarily, when treatments such as this could be available.
Since I picked the book up eighteen months ago, I have unravelled my condition back to the route cause and come off all medication, that included a maximum dose of the beta blocker propranolol. I have travelled to Australia on my own, done a sky dive, a bungee jump and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro......,things that GAD suffers may believe will never be possible for them.
My condition is more complex and I am under the care of a clinical psychologist to round off my own progress, but I believe a full recovery is only a matter of time.
Thanks again to Professor Wells, at al, and I hope this review is useful to whoever reads it. Good luck and best wishes.
The physical response of my anxiety was so great, at one point I had to have an operation to enable me to urinate properly. The heart palpitations perfectly mimicked what I imagine having a heart attack would be like and the constantly active mind (worry) sent me into bouts of spiralling depression with no escape in sight.
My search for a cure to what started off as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and later developed into the broader Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) led me to a book called `Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders' (same author), which in turn led to this current publication.
The book is very well written and there is minimal technical jargon in it. It is aimed at practitioners, rather than to be used as a self-help guide, but, nonetheless after some time spent slowly digesting the relevant chapters, massive gains can be achieved.
The concepts are logical and the content is fairly straight forward after the initial understanding. There are individual rating scales, treatment plans and process diagrams for GAD, OCD, PTSD and MDD, plus more general chapters which detail the common themes.
There are examples of behaviour, which I could immediately relate to and begin to question my own behaviours. Hypothetical questions gave me something productive to think about, stimulated recovery and enabled me to see the bigger picture. There are experiments to challenge unhelpful beliefs and enable new, more helpful counter evidence to generate a `new plan' for processing information.
The book clearly describes the technique of `Detached Mindfulness', which is a key component to the therapy. This allows thoughts to be treated as `events in the mind', rather that actively engaging with them in the first place. This means that the content of thoughts and worries is largely irrelevant and things can be treated in a more logical problem solving manner.
I cannot rate this book highly enough. From a personal perspective it has turned my life around and the future (which wasn't looking too promising) is now looking bright. In my opinion, the NHS fails to successfully treat conditions like mine and advances such as this have the potential to save large amounts of money- I'm sure I have cost the tax-payer a small fortune unnecessarily, when treatments such as this could be available.
Since I picked the book up eighteen months ago, I have unravelled my condition back to the route cause and come off all medication, that included a maximum dose of the beta blocker propranolol. I have travelled to Australia on my own, done a sky dive, a bungee jump and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro......,things that GAD suffers may believe will never be possible for them.
My condition is more complex and I am under the care of a clinical psychologist to round off my own progress, but I believe a full recovery is only a matter of time.
Thanks again to Professor Wells, at al, and I hope this review is useful to whoever reads it. Good luck and best wishes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This amazing book represents a major leap forwards for cognitive behaviour therapies and is sold as a new therapy M.C.T ( metacognitive therapy) which turns a lot of very traditional cbt techniques on their head,in particular the M.C.T. approach to "worry and rumination" which is very applicable across several anxiety disorders.
It introduces new concepts like " detached mindfulness techniques" which are also very different to "traditional mindfulness techniques" , the work is heavily researched and very complete with techniques to use, inventories, and treatment plans.
Personally I feel it is a major breakthrough that will keep on developing some very useful ways of treatment presently and in the future.
Going on a Adrian Wells course would make a great difference to your understanding of this book , which I have done, and after the course I used some the techniques in clinical practice to excellent effect.
Trev McDougall CBT Therapist
It introduces new concepts like " detached mindfulness techniques" which are also very different to "traditional mindfulness techniques" , the work is heavily researched and very complete with techniques to use, inventories, and treatment plans.
Personally I feel it is a major breakthrough that will keep on developing some very useful ways of treatment presently and in the future.
Going on a Adrian Wells course would make a great difference to your understanding of this book , which I have done, and after the course I used some the techniques in clinical practice to excellent effect.
Trev McDougall CBT Therapist
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Wells Continues to Contribute to CBT
This is a well written and researched book with lots of in session examples. One critisim I often have with psychotherapy books is they leave a gap between the theory they outline... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Fergal Carroll
State-of-the art evidence-based therapy
When I heard Prof. Wells talk recently he emphasised the difference between his metacognitive therapy (MCT) approach and traditional CBT. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Donald Robertson
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