Table of Contents

1. Theory and Nature of Metacognitive Therapy 2. Assessment 3. Foundation Metacognitive Therapy Skills 4. Attention Training Techniques 5. Detached Mindfulness Techniques 6. Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 8. Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder 9. Major Depressive Disorder 10. The Evidence for Metacognitive Theory and Therapy 11. Concluding Thoughts Appendices 1. Metacognitions Questionnaire 30 (MCQ-30) 2. Meta-Worry Questionnaire (MWQ) 3. Thought Fusion Instrument (TFI) 4. Attention Training Technique Summary Sheet 5. Self-Attention Rating Scale 6. CAS-1 7. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale—Revised (GADS-R) 8. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale (PTSD-S) 9. Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder Scale (OCD-S) 10. Major Depressive Disorder Scale (MDD-S) 11. GAD Case Formulation Interview 12. PTSD Case Formulation Interview 13. OCD Case Formulation Interview 14. Depression Case Formulation Interview 15. GAD Treatment Plan 16. PTSD Treatment Plan 17. OCD Treatment Plan 18. Depression Treatment Plan 19. New Plan Summary Sheet

About the Author

Adrian Wells, PhD, Division of Clinical Psychology, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Reviews

"The procedures Wells describes will be enormously useful to therapists of all persuasions, and can form the bedrock of low-intensity and high-intensity interventions for a wide range of disorders." - Chris R. Brewin, University College London, UK "As a clinician who has struggled with helping people work through dysfunctional thinking patterns, I can appreciate the usefulness of Wells's methods. Metacognitive therapy (MCT) helps both the patient and the therapist take a step back from the sometimes repetitive work of cognitive therapy, and lends a new perspective with the potential for breaking through treatment roadblocks. Well done!" - Monica Ramirez Basco, University of Texas at Arlington, USA "This book presents a new and innovative approach that focuses on how patients think, as much as what they believe. It is firmly grounded in basic science and packed full of powerful clinical strategies...Should prove to be a valuable tool for graduate training across the professional disciplines." - Steven D. Hollon, Vanderbilt University, USA "Clinicians who read this revolutionary book will be able to utilize techniques found nowhere else." - Robert L. Leahy, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, USA "MCT is a new and novel treatment and an exciting addition to the third wave of behavior therapy...Therapists trained in more traditional CBT will undoubtedly be very interested in how some of the MCT techniques might work with their current patients who are seemingly 'stuck.'" - PsycCRITIQUES