(1) Until recently, rumination was regarded as an involuntary symptom of depression and anxiety. Psychologists didn't think that rumination could be voluntarily stopped because the mind...
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Can The Attention Training Technique Help ADHD and Improve Productivity?
(6) The Attention Training Technique (ATT) as part of Metacognitive Therapy already seems like a promising treatment for depression and anxiety. ATT increases flexibility and control over...
(1) Metacognitive therapy is radically different from other types of psychotherapy because it suggests disengaging from distressing thoughts instead of analyzing, worrying, and controlling them....
How The Attention Training Technique Can Improve Social Anxiety
(1) What is the connection between social anxiety and attention? The common factor in social anxiety disorder is that attention is fixed on internal signs of anxiety and external signs of...
The Metacognitive Model of Depression: How Rumination Causes Depression
(11) A recent study overviewing the connection between depression and a lack of serotonin in the brain came to the conclusion that there was "...no support for the hypothesis that depression is...
(1) Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic mental health disorder linked to traumatic life events. PTSD develops in 1 out of 4 people, and current therapies focus on exposure to...