Metacognitive therapy: Cognition applied to regulating cognition

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 651-658

  Wells, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Metacognition; Metacognitive therapy; Rumination; Worry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; METACOGNITIVE THERAPY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 56749183073     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465808004803     Document Type: Article

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