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How effective psychological treatments work: mechanisms of change in cognitive behavioural therapy and beyond.

Paul M SalkovskisMagnus Blondahl SighvatssonJon Fridrik Sigurdsson
Published in: Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy (2024)
Good psychological therapies should ultimately involve supporting people experiencing psychological difficulties to understand where and how they have become 'stuck' in terms of factors involved in maintaining distress and impairment. A shared understanding is then evaluated and tested with the intention of empowering and enabling them to respond more flexibly and thereby reclaim their life.
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