Psychotherapeutic Interventions and Processes. Issue 3 (August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hofmann, Stefan G.
• Is Part Of: Cognitive and behavioral practice. Volume 29:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 581
• Page End: 584
• Publication Date: 2022-08
• Subjects: cognitive behavioral therapy -- process-based therapy -- idiographic -- evidence-based -- transdiagnostic; Behavior therapy -- Periodicals; Cognitive therapy -- Periodicals; Behavior Therapy -- Periodicals; Cognitive Therapy -- Periodicals; 616.8914205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2022.02.001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-7229

Abstract

Highlights: Psychotherapy is limited by the latent disease model. Psychotherapy should be studied idiographically. Psychotherapy can be viewed as process toward adaptation to context. Psychotherapy is applied evolutionary science. Process-based therapy combines evolutionary science and network approaches. Abstract: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been one of the most influential developments in psychiatry ever. Since it was developed and introduced, a vast number of treatment protocols focused on specific psychiatric syndromes have been developed. Although this has benefitted many patients and advanced the field, CBT as a treatment with its focus on alleviating psychiatric syndromes seemed to have reached a plateau and a process-focus approach is now emerging within the family of CBT models. This represents a new form of idiographic functional analysis guided by models that integrate a coherent set of change processes. Here, I describe the foundations of this new approach to mental health, called process-based therapy (PBT) and discuss its scientific and clinical implications.