Mechanisms of change in cognitive therapy: The case of automatic thought records and behavioural experiments

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-277

  Bennett Levy, James ^a  

^a Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic thought records; Behavioural experiments; Change processes; Cognitive therapy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC THOUGHT RECORD; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR EXPERIMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERACTING COGNITIVE SUBSYSTEM MODEL; LOGIC; MALE; OSCILLATION; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TEASDALE THEORY; THEORY; TRAINING;

EID: 0038376435     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465803003035     Document Type: Article

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