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The Role of Cognitive Change in Psychotherapy

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Identifying the roles that cognitive change is thought to play among contemporary psychotherapies represents a considerable challenge. This task assumes that one can recognize the commonalities among approaches that masquerade as differences and the differences that masquerade as similarities. Extracting meaningful similarities and differences confronts us with the thorny and multifaceted issue of assigning causal relationships among cognitions, emotional distress, and behaviors, as viewed both from the vantage point of diverse theories and from empirical literature.

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    Larry E. Beutler

  2. Program 3, Patton State Hospital, Patton, California, 92369, USA

    Paul D. Guest

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Beutler, L.E., Guest, P.D. (1989). The Role of Cognitive Change in Psychotherapy. In: Freeman, A., Simon, K.M., Beutler, L.E., Arkowitz, H. (eds) Comprehensive Handbook of Cognitive Therapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9779-4_7

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