Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy back issues from October 2008:
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Current Status
Oct 01, 2008; ... In this review of the current status of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), we consider two of Ellis's strategies that have helped preserve REBT's presence in the professional zeitgeist. We argue that REBT should be viewed as a unitary approach to cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) and ...
Treatment Attitude and Therapy Outcome in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Oct 01, 2008; ... This study investigated the degree to which two ways of defining attitude toward treatment (i.e., attitude toward talking with a therapist about problems, expectation for improvement) predicted therapy outcome. The sample consisted of 28 patients who participated in an open clinical trial ...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Executive Functioning in Depression
Oct 01, 2008; ... When considering psychological treatments for depression, a therapist needs to be aware of some of the wider cognitive and neuropsychological difficulties experienced by his or her patient in order to tailor therapy appropriately. The depressed person may display rigid and concrete thinking, ...
Sociotropy, Autonomy, and Self-Criticism Are Three Distinguishable Dimensions of Cognitive-Personality Vulnerability
Oct 01, 2008; ... Whereas both Blatt (1974) and Beck (1983) postulated the existence of two basic cognitivepersonality vulnerabilities to depression-sociotropic/anaclitic and autonomous/introjective- recent research and theorizing suggest that self-criticism is a third dimension of vulnerability. To examine the ...
The Mental Simulation of Motor Incapacity in Depression
Oct 01, 2008; ... In depression, negative beliefs are coupled with profound physical weakness. Specifically, the belief that one is incapable of altering events in order to prevent expected negative outcomes or bring about positive outcomes leads to bodily symptoms characterized by low energy, slow motor ...
An Examination of Anxiety Sensitivity as a Moderator of the Relation Between Sleep Anticipatory Anxiety and Sleep Onset Latency
Oct 01, 2008; ... Evidence suggests that advancing currently limited knowledge about self-reported sleep onset latency is important for better understanding insomnia. Relatively little research has been conducted to understand factors that affect sleep onset latency. The current study tested a hypothesized role ...
Repetitive Thought in Psychopathology: The Relation of Rumination and Worry to Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
Oct 01, 2008; ... The relation between repetitive thought and depression and anxiety symptoms was examined in an undergraduate sample. Individuals completed self-report measures of rumination, worry, depression, and anxiety as well as other related constructs including private self-consciousness, looming ...