This theoretical article revives a classical bridging construct, canalization, to describe a new
model of a general factor of psychopathology. To achieve this, we have distinguished …

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an active, problem-focused, and time-sensitive
approach to treatment that aims to reduce emotional distress and increase adaptive …

Hundreds of thousands of clinicians and graduate students have relied on this text--now
significantly revised with more than 50% new material--to learn the fundamentals of …

Objective: Modeling cross-lagged effects in psychotherapy mechanisms of change studies is
complex and requires careful attention to model selection and interpretation. However, there …

Robert J. DeRubeis Christian A. Webb Tony Z. Tang Aaron T. Beck since its introduction by
Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s, cognitive therapy (CT) has grown steadily in its influence, as …

Since the introduction of Beck's cognitive theory of emotional disorders, and their treatment
with psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches have become the most extensively …

Objective Knowledge of patients' in-session experiences that lead to symptom change in
psychotherapy is limited. This study aims to investigate the within-and between-patient …

Background Previous studies indicate that early symptomatic improvement, typically
observed during the first 4 weeks of psychological therapy, is associated with positive …

The contributions of individual therapy elements to the overall efficacy of evidence-based
practices for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are not well-understood …

Socratic questioning has long been thought to play a critical role in cognitive behavioral
therapy (CBT) for depression. Though use of Socratic questioning is theorized to achieve …