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| Dr Abigail Millings |
Dr Abigail Millings from The Center for Assistive Technology and Connective Healthcare (CATCH) has
published a paper examining the content
of a large sample of primary care patients’ core beliefs captured in an online
cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) program. The paper, appearing in the Journal of
Affective Disorders, describes a content analysis of over 1800 core beliefs
derived through the ‘downward arrow’ technique. The downward arrow technique
enables individuals to find the ore belief that drives their negative thinking.
The core beliefs found were classified into one of 9 themes, and the most
commonly occurring were global self- evaluation, competence, and attachment.
The authors also found evidence of gender differences, differences according to
mental health problem type (depression, anxiety, both, or other), and
differences according to the presence or absence of suicidal thoughts, in the
number of core beliefs coded into each theme. The work represents the first
large collection of idiosyncratic core beliefs, and as such offers insight into
the kinds of cognitions underpinning common mental health problems in primary
care patients. You can read more by going to the open
access publication here.
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