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'You've got your own demons that you've got to fight every day': A qualitative exploration of how people respond to the experience of psychosis.

scientific article

A Preliminary Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Group Metacognitive Therapy in a Mixed Psychological Disorder Sample

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

A cognitive model of bulimia nervosa

scientific article published in March 2004

A cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder

scientific article

A comparison of metacognitions in patients with hallucinations, delusions, panic disorder, and non-patient controls

scientific article published in February 2003

A meta-analysis of metacognitive beliefs as implicated in the self-regulatory executive function model in clinical psychosis.

scientific article published on 23 September 2016

A metacognitive model of problem drinking.

scientific article

A pilot randomized trial of metacognitive therapy vs applied relaxation in the treatment of adults with generalized anxiety disorder

scientific article published on 04 January 2010

A short form of the metacognitions questionnaire: properties of the MCQ-30

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

A triphasic metacognitive formulation of problem drinking

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Advances in Metacognitive Therapy

article published in 2013

An empirical test of the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms: fusion beliefs, beliefs about rituals, and stop signals.

scientific article published on 3 September 2008

An experimental investigation of the role of safety-seeking behaviours in the maintenance of panic disorder with agoraphobia

scientific article published in June 1999

An experimental investigation of thought suppression and anxiety in children

scientific article published in March 2001

An experimental manipulation of metacognition: a test of the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

An exploration of the relationship between use of safety-seeking behaviours and psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article

An open trial of group metacognitive therapy for depression in Norway

scientific article published on 15 August 2014

Are experiences of psychosis associated with unhelpful metacognitive coping strategies? A systematic review of the evidence

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Assessment of metacognitive beliefs in an at risk mental state for psychosis: A validation study of the Metacognitions Questionnaire-30

scientific article published on 07 June 2018

Association between abnormal psychosocial situations in childhood, generalized anxiety disorder and oppositional defiant disorder

scientific article published in September 2010

Attention training reduces intrusive thoughts cued by a narrative of stressful life events: a controlled study

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

Attentional avoidance increases voice hearing in an analogue task in people with psychosis: An experimental study.

scientific article

Author Correction: Metacognitive Therapy versus Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Adults with Major Depression: A Parallel Single-Blind Randomised Trial

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Automatic thoughts and meta-cognition as predictors of depressive or anxious symptoms: a prospective study of two trajectories.

scientific article

Belief disconfirmation versus habituation approaches to situational exposure in panic disorder with agoraphobia: a pilot study

scientific article published on 12 February 2007

Belief domains of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) and their specific relationship with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

scientific article published on 30 March 2007

Beliefs about worry and intrusions: the Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire and its correlates.

scientific article published in May 1997

Brief cognitive therapy for panic disorder: A randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Brief cognitive therapy for social phobia: a case series.

scientific article published on June 2001

Can the attention training technique turn one marshmallow into two? Improving children's ability to delay gratification

scientific article published on 22 November 2015

Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients’ Accounts of Their Emotional Distress and Psychological Needs: A Qualitative Study.

scientific article published in June 2019

Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Change in metacognitions predicts outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients undergoing treatment with exposure and response prevention

scientific article published on 17 January 2009

Childhood adversity and frequent medical consultations

scientific article published in September 2004

Cognitive and emotional predictors of predisposition to hallucinations in non-patients

scientific article published in September 2002

Cognitive and metacognitive predictors of symptom improvement following treatment for social anxiety disorder: A secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

Cognitive therapy for bulimia nervosa: an A-B replication series

Cost-effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review

scientific article published on 13 April 2018

Death beliefs, superstitious beliefs and health anxiety

scientific article published in March 2002

Development and preliminary validation of the Meta-cognitions Questionnaire-Adolescent Version

scientific article published in January 2004

Do people with psychosis engage in unhelpful metacognitive coping strategies? A test of the validity of the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS) in a clinical sample.

scientific article published on 22 October 2017

Does Metacognition Make a Unique Contribution to Health Anxiety When Controlling for Neuroticism, Illness Cognition, and Somatosensory Amplification?

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Does maternal psychopathology discriminate between children with DSM-IV generalised anxiety disorder or oppositional defiant disorder? The predictive validity of maternal axis I and axis II psychopathology

scientific article published on 10 October 2006

Dose meta-cognition or responsibility predict obsessive–compulsive symptoms: a test of the metacognitive model

Early trauma, negative affect, and anxious attachment: the role of metacognition

scientific article published on 28 January 2015

Effects of attention training on hypochondriasis: a brief case series

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Effects of the Attention Training Technique on Auditory Hallucinations in Schizo-Affective Disorder: A Single Case Study

scientific article published on 09 August 2018

Emotion regulation as a mediator in the relationship between attachment and depressive symptomatology: A systematic review.

scientific article

Emotional, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of medical outpatients: a preliminary analysis

scientific article published in January 2001

Experimental modification of beliefs in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a test of the metacognitive model.

scientific article published on 14 November 2004

Experimental modification of perspective on thoughts and metacognitive beliefs in alcohol use disorder

scientific article published on 19 July 2016

Explaining depression symptoms in patients with social anxiety disorder: Do maladaptive metacognitive beliefs play a role?

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Group Cognitive-Behavior Therapy or Group Metacognitive Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Benchmarking and Comparative Effectiveness in a Routine Clinical Service

Group Metacognitive Therapy vs. Mindfulness Meditation Therapy in a Transdiagnostic Patient Sample: A Randomised Feasibility Trial

scientific article

How do I look with my minds eye: perspective taking in social phobic imagery

scientific article published in June 1998

How effective are cognitive and behavioral treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder? A clinical significance analysis

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

How to Deal with Negative Thoughts? A Preliminary Comparison of Detached Mindfulness and Thought Evaluation in Socially Anxious Individuals

Imagery rescripting as a brief stand-alone treatment for depressed patients with intrusive memories.

scientific article published on 27 March 2009

Improving the effectiveness of psychological interventions for depression and anxiety in the cardiac rehabilitation pathway using group-based metacognitive therapy (PATHWAY Group MCT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Interpretations of voices in patients with hallucinations and non-patient controls: a comparison and predictors of distress in patients

scientific article published in November 2004

Intrusive images and memories in major depression

scientific article published on 16 June 2007

Is metacognition a causal moderator of the relationship between catastrophic misinterpretation and health anxiety? A prospective study.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Letter to the editor: Metacognitive therapy or metacognitive training: What's in a name?

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Measuring common responses to psychosis: Assessing the psychometric properties of a new measure

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Meta-Cognitive Therapy Without Metacognition: A Case of ADHD ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Metacognition and persecutory delusions: tests of a metacognitive model in a clinical population and comparisons with non-patients

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Metacognition as a mediator of the relationship between emotion and smoking dependence

scientific article published on 23 January 2007

Metacognition in addictive behaviors

scientific article published on 23 August 2014

Metacognition, Hardiness, and Grit as Resilience Factors in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Operations: A Simulation Study

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Metacognitions and negative emotions as predictors of symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndrome.

scientific article published on 18 November 2010

Metacognitions as a predictor of drinking status and level of alcohol use following CBT in problem drinkers: a prospective study.

scientific article published on 24 June 2009

Metacognitions in Problem Drinkers

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Metacognitive Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Case Series

scholarly article by Gabriele Caselli et al published 2018 in Frontiers in Psychology

Metacognitive Therapy for Depression in Adults: A Waiting List Randomized Controlled Trial with Six Months Follow-Up

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

Metacognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: An A-B Replication Series Across Social Anxiety Subtypes.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Metacognitive Therapy in Recurrent and Persistent Depression: A Multiple-Baseline Study of a New Treatment

Metacognitive Therapy versus Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Adults with Major Depression: A Parallel Single-Blind Randomised Trial

scientific article published on 12 May 2020

Metacognitive beliefs about alcohol use: development and validation of two self-report scales

scientific article published on 4 November 2007

Metacognitive beliefs about rumination in recurrent major depression

Metacognitive beliefs across the continuum of psychosis: comparisons between patients with psychotic disorders, patients at ultra-high risk and non-patients

scientific article published on 16 January 2007

Metacognitive beliefs and rumination as predictors of anger: A prospective study

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Metacognitive beliefs and their relationship with anxiety and depression in physical illnesses: A systematic review

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Metacognitive beliefs as psychological predictors of social functioning: An investigation with young people at risk of psychosis

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Metacognitive beliefs in adolescents with an at-risk mental state for psychosis

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Metacognitive beliefs moderate the relationship between catastrophic misinterpretation and health anxiety

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Metacognitive therapy for PTSD: a preliminary investigation of a new brief treatment

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: an open trial

scientific article published on 25 August 2005

Metacognitive therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a case series

scientific article

Metacognitive therapy home-based self-help for cardiac rehabilitation patients experiencing anxiety and depressive symptoms: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (PATHWAY Home-MCT)

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Metacognitive therapy in people with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis and medication resistant symptoms: a feasibility study

scientific article published on 14 December 2013

Metacognitive therapy in recurrent depression: a case replication series in Denmark

scientific article published on 21 November 2013

Metacognitive therapy in treatment-resistant depression: a platform trial.

scientific article published on 3 March 2012

Metacognitive therapy in treatment-resistant psychosis: a multiple-baseline study.

scientific article

Metacognitive therapy versus cognitive-behavioural therapy in adults with generalised anxiety disorder

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Metacognitive therapy vs. eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for posttraumatic stress disorder: study protocol for a randomized superiority trial.

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Modelling cognition in emotional disorder: the S-REF model

scientific article

Neurophysiological correlates of the attention training technique: A component study.

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Number of bodily symptoms predicts outcome more accurately than health anxiety in patients attending neurology, cardiology, and gastroenterology clinics

scientific article published in April 2006

On the relationship between temperament, metacognition, and anxiety: independent and mediated effects.

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Panic disorder in association with relaxation induced anxiety: An attentional training approach to treatment

Paroxetine, Cognitive Therapy or Their Combination in the Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder with and without Avoidant Personality Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial

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Positive beliefs about depressive rumination: Development and preliminary validation of a self-report scale

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Preliminary tests of a cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder

scientific article published in June 1999

Protocol for the economic evaluation of metacognitive therapy for cardiac rehabilitation participants with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Psychological factors predicting stress symptoms: Metacognition, thought control, and varieties of worry

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Psychometric characteristics of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire and Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 and metacognitive predictors of worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a Turkish sample

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Qualitative Analysis of Emotional Distress in Cardiac Patients From the Perspectives of Cognitive Behavioral and Metacognitive Theories: Why Might Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Have Limited Benefit, and Might Metacognitive Therapy Be More Effective?

Qualitative dimensions of normal worry and normal obsessions: a comparative study

scientific article published in November 1994

Refraining from intrusive thoughts is strategy dependent: a comment on Sugiura, et al. And a preliminary informal test of detached mindfulness, acceptance, and other strategies

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Relationships between worry, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and meta-cognitive beliefs

scientific article published in September 1998

Relationships between worry, psychotic experiences and emotional distress in patients with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses and comparisons with anxious and non-patient groups

scientific article published on 23 March 2007

Religion and mental health: towards a cognitive-behavioural framework

scientific article published in September 2003

Single Dose of the Attention Training Technique Increases Resting Alpha and Beta-Oscillations in Frontoparietal Brain Networks: A Randomized Controlled Comparison

article published in 2018

Social Metacognition

Social anxiety and work status: the role of negative metacognitive beliefs, symptom severity and cognitive-behavioural factors.

scientific article

Social cognition and metacognition in social anxiety: A systematic review.

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Social phobia: Effects of external attention on anxiety, negative beliefs, and perspective taking

Social phobia: The role of in-situation safety behaviors in maintaining anxiety and negative beliefs

Social phobic interoception: effects of bodily information on anxiety, beliefs and self-processing

scientific article published in January 2001

Testing relationships between metacognitive beliefs, anxiety and depression in cardiac and cancer patients: Are they transdiagnostic?

scientific article published on 11 June 2019

Testing the metacognitive model against the benchmark CBT model of social anxiety disorder: Is it time to move beyond cognition?

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The Attention Training Technique improves Children's ability to delay gratification: A controlled comparison with progressive relaxation

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

The Eating Disorder Belief Questionnaire: Preliminary development

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The Metacognitions about Smoking Questionnaire: development and psychometric properties

scientific article published on 12 November 2014

The Thought Control Questionnaire--psychometric properties in a clinical sample, and relationships with PTSD and depression

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

The Thought Control Questionnaire: a measure of individual differences in the control of unwanted thoughts

scientific article published on November 1994

The effect of thought importance on stress responses: a test of the metacognitive model.

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The observer perspective: biased imagery in social phobia, agoraphobia, and blood/injury phobia

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The prediction of parasuicide repetition in a high-risk group.

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The relationship among metacognitions, attentional control, and state anxiety

scientific article published in January 2010

The relative contribution of metacognitive beliefs and expectancies to drinking behaviour

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The role of cognitive and metacognitive factors in non-clinical paranoia and negative affect.

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The role of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs in psychosis: Relationships with positive symptoms and negative affect.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

The temporal precedence of metacognition in the development of anxiety and depression symptoms in the context of life-stress: a prospective study

scientific article published on 9 November 2010

Thought control strategies in schizophrenia: a comparison with non-patients

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Treating posttraumatic stress disorder with metacognitive therapy: a preliminary controlled trial.

scientific article published on April 2012

Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders

Unique contributions of metacognition and cognition to depressive symptoms

scientific article

Utilising Patient and Public Involvement in Stated Preference Research in Health: Learning from the Existing Literature and a Case Study

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

What Lies Beneath Trait-Anxiety? Testing the Self-Regulatory Executive Function Model of Vulnerability

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Worry and rumination: do they prolong physiological and affective recovery from stress?

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Worry and the incubation of intrusive images following stress

scientific article published in June 1995

“I’ll believe it when I can see it”: Imagery rescripting of intrusive sensory memories in depression

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

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