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Metacognitive Training: Administration and new results
Metacognitive Training is a “low-threshold”, highly standardized group
treatment. It is a variant of CBT, but specifically encourages patients to take a
metacognitive perspective (“think about one’s thinking”). While it shares some
features with the transdiagnostically oriented Metacognitive Therapy sensu
Adrian Wells by targeting dysfunctional metacognitive coping strategies, its focus
is on disorder-specific cognitive biases and mainly challenges cognitive biases by
the use of creative and engaging exercises. This way patients may, but do not
have to, talk about their individual problems, yet can still experience how
cognitive biases work and influence one’s mood. Originally Metacognitive
Training was developed for patients with psychosis. Over the past decade the
training has been translated into more than 33 languages and, more recently,
specific metacognitive training programs for depression, OCD, and borderline
personality disorder have been developed. In the present talk, recent studies on
Metacognitive Training will be presented together with a hands-on focus on the
administration of the Metacognitive Training for Depression (D-MCT).
Dr. Lena Jelinek is the co-head of the Clinical Neuropsychology Working Group
(together with Prof. Steffen Moritz) of the Department of Psychiatry and
Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany).
Her research focuses on memory, cognitive biases and (meta-)cognitive
interventions in PTSD, OCD, and depression. Besides working as a researcher,
she treats outpatients in her own practice and teaches postgratuate students in
CBT.