Metacognitive Therapy ?

[lazure]

I am currently in my registration year doing some private therapy in order to get my clinical competency (in addition to my full-time school psych job)...anyhow, on the advice of my supervisor, I have read Adrian Well's Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression. It is an interesting approach which is at times quite at odds with CBT. I was wondering if anyone practices this approach? The one patient I have now seems to be rapidly benefitting although I am a little skeptical of the rapid progress...

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[docma]

On quick review, it seems to have many parallels to Acceptance and Committment Therapy, better known as ACT (Hayes, Pistorelli, Storsdahl, Walser, et. al) which has a strong evidence base, over 30 years, and is also often quite efficacious, especially when used in cases with an average or high level of functioning and not too many co-occurring disorders. (ACT also has some good outcomes with psychotic level disorders).