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“Third-wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process-based approach to intervention in psychiatry

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Hayes, Steven C., Hofmann, Stefan G.·2021·World Psychiatry

Abstract

For decades, cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBTs) have been tested in randomized controlled trials for specific psychiatric syndromes that were assumed to represent expressions of latent diseases. Although these protocols were more effective as compared to psychological control conditions, placebo treatments, and even active pharmacotherapies, further advancement in efficacy and dissemination has been inhibited by a failure to focus on processes of change. This picture appears now to be evolving, due both to a collapse of the idea that mental disorders can be classified into distinct, discrete categories, and to the more central attention given to processes of change in newer, so-called “third-wave” CBTs. Here we review the context for this historic progress and evaluate the impact of these newer methods and models, not as protocols for treating syndromes, but as ways of targeting an expanded range of processes of change. Five key features of “third-wave” therapies are underlined: a focus on context and function; the view that new models and methods should build on other strands of CBT; a focus on broad and flexible repertoires vs. an approach to signs and symptoms; applying processes to the clinician, not just the client; and expanding into more complex issues historically more characteristic of humanistic, existential, analytic, or system-oriented approaches. We argue that these newer methods can be considered in the context of an idiographic approach to process-based functional analysis. Psychological processes of change can be organized into six dimensions: cognition, affect, attention, self, motivation and overt behavior. Several important processes of change combine two or more of these dimensions. Tailoring intervention strategies to target the appropriate processes in a given individual would be a major advance in psychiatry and an important step toward precision mental health care. © 2021 World Psychiatric Association

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Authors
Hayes, S. C., & Hofmann, S. G.
Affiliations
  • University of Nevada, Reno (US)
  • Boston University (US)
Venue
World Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2021-09-09
Volume
20
Issue
3
Pages
363-375
ISSN
  • 1723-8617 (ISSN-L)
  • 2051-5545
OpenAlex
W3197295322
Cited by
260
References
131
Citations by year
2026: 48 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 8
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23.84
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journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • World Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Keywords
third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy, change processes, idiographic approach, motivation, attention, self, affect, cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, psychiatric syndromes, psychiatric classification

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