BACKGROUND A cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) programme designed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in people with severe mental illness, including breathing retraining, education and cognitive restructuring, was shown to be more effective than usual services. AIMS To evaluate the incremental benefit of adding cognitive restructuring to the breathing retraining and education compone...

Techniques based on cognitive therapy and electroencephalography (EEG) were used to investigate the predictive utility of EEG alpha power with regard to mood improvement. Controls and individuals with major depression participated in four EEG recording blocks. Blocks 1 and 4 were resting baselines. During Block 2, Ss were asked to think about their "most troubling life difficulty." Next, Ss wer...

Cognitive restructuring and exposure therapy have been integrated into a highly structured package for the treatment of social phobia termed cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT). The first two sessions of CBGT for social phobia are devoted to training clients in the basic tenets of cognitive therapy. Clients learn to identify their own irrational thoughts and to challenge the content of th...

This study examined the use of four advanced psychological strategies (i.e., simulation training, cognitive restructuring, preperformance routines, and overlearning of skills) and subsequent competitive anxiety responses. Semistructured interviews were employed with eight highly elite athletes from a number of team and individual sports. Participants reported using each strategy to enable them ...

The underlying mechanisms giving rise to insightful problem solving are largely unknown, although models have been proposed that suggest phases of incubation, restructuring, and insight. Here, we propose a single computational mechanism that models the dynamics of structuring percepts to create an internal belief representation and subsequent restructuring of that belief representation, in whic...

Abstract This paper explores the link between metaphoric structure TIME IS SPACE and time perception in bilinguals. While there appear to be fundamental commonalities way humans perceive experience regardless of language background, language-specific spatiotemporal metaphors can give rise differences populations, under certain conditions. Little is known, however, about how bilinguals time, spe...

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengatasi kenakalan remaja serta memperkenalkan dan menjelaskan tentang konseling kelompok cognitive behavior therapy dengan teknik restructuring dalam remaja. Adapun sasaran lembaga pendidikan, konselor, guru, orang tua memberikan pembinaan agar dapat mengubah keyakinan-keyakinan yang irrasional menjadi rasional, mengurangi pikiran-pikiran negatif proses berp...