Sly Saint
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
‘CBT for Long-Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms’ by Philip Kinsella and Helen Moya (Routledge 2022)
Exaggeratedly Negative Beliefs Perpetuate LTCs and MUS?
good, detailed write up by Mike Scott
http://www.cbtwatch.com/exaggeratedly-negative-beliefs-perpetuate-ltcs-and-mus/
Exaggeratedly Negative Beliefs Perpetuate LTCs and MUS?
This is answered resoundingly in the affirmative and prescriptively in a just published book ‘CBT for Long-Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms’ by Philip Kinsella and Helen Moya (Routledge 2022). But the book represents a triumph of ideology over evidence. It carefully avoids any consideration of studies that challenge its modus operandi.
With evangelistic fervour these authors proclaim on P16 ‘For the typical cognitive behavioural therapists it’s not necessary to be fully understanding of the debates around medically unexplained symptoms it’s more helpful to be aware of what the contributing factors are how to recognise and consider them and how to consider whether they are relevant to current problems’.
The reader is not informed of the details of the debate or the range of opinion.
Kinsella and Moya (2022) operate with a confirmatory bias, searching out studies that support their position and ignoring those that do not.
good, detailed write up by Mike Scott
http://www.cbtwatch.com/exaggeratedly-negative-beliefs-perpetuate-ltcs-and-mus/