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The Treatment of Embodied Rigid Appraisals: Restructuring Embodied Irrational Beliefs

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Both human and nonhuman animal literatures suggest embodied rigid appraisals as core mechanisms of emotional disorders. In this chapter, I describe the process of assessment, conceptualization, and treatment of embodied rigid appraisals or embodied irrational beliefs. I begin by describing the assessment and the conceptualization of embodied rigid appraisals. Then, I layout new interventions targeting fully activated embodied rigid appraisals such as exposure, memory restructuring methods, mindfulness, and body-based interventions and discuss the medication treatment of embodied rigid appraisals. Targeting embodied rigid appraisals opens doors for integrating new psychological interventions into extant evidence-based cognitive behavioral treatments.

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Tiba, A. (2020). The Treatment of Embodied Rigid Appraisals: Restructuring Embodied Irrational Beliefs. In: Embodied Hot Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders​. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53989-4_7

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