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Negative Outcome in Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy: A Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Adrian Wells
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Frank M. Dattilio
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Extract

This paper reports an exacerabation of health fears in response to cognitive modification in a patient with Somatoform Disorder (NOS). The results of the intervention present interesting theoretical implications for the conceptualization of cognitive events in clinical disorders and those characteristics that may contribute to treatment failure.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1992

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