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Meta-beliefs

10 techniques · 1 approach
MCT
Maladaptive Coping Strategy Modification
Maladaptive Coping Strategy Modification
In MCT coping strategies (avoidance, search for reassurance, checking behavior, neutralization) are seen as maintained by meta-beliefs. The …
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Metacognitive Behavioral Experiments
Metacognitive Behavioral Experiments
Behavioral experiments specifically directed at testing meta-beliefs — unlike CBT, what is being tested is not anxious predictions but belie…
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Metacognitive Profiling
Metacognitive Profiling
A structured assessment of the client's metacognitive beliefs before the start of therapy. Includes a clinical interview and the MCQ-30 (Met…
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Negative Metacognitive Beliefs Modification
Negative Metacognitive Beliefs Modification
Work with beliefs about uncontrollability ("I cannot stop worrying"), dangerousness ("too much worry will drive me mad"), and the significan…
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Old Plan / New Plan
Old Plan / New Plan
A structured relapse-prevention document created in the final sessions of MCT. Two columns: "Old plan" (meta-beliefs, CAS, coping) and "New …
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Positive Metacognitive Beliefs Modification
Positive Metacognitive Beliefs Modification
Work with beliefs of the type "worry helps me prepare", "rumination helps to find a solution", "anxiety motivates". These beliefs maintain i…
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Socialized Case Formulation
Socialized Case Formulation
Building, jointly with the client, an idiographic formulation in the language of the MCT model. The therapist draws the CAS schema: trigger …
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Threat Monitoring Reduction
Threat Monitoring Reduction
A specific technique for reducing the constant scanning for threats by changing meta-beliefs about the necessity of monitoring. Differs from…
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Verbal Reattribution
Verbal Reattribution
A targeted Socratic dialogue to change metacognitive beliefs about the uncontrollability, dangerousness, or usefulness of worry/rumination. …
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Worry Postponement
Worry Postponement
The client makes an agreement with themselves: when worry begins, they consciously postpone it to a fixed "time for worry" (for example, 30 …
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