One Step Ahead—Attention Control Capabilities at Baseline Are Associated With the Effectiveness of the Attention Training Technique

Frontiers in Psychology

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Ivo Heitland¹  Vincent Barth¹  Lotta Winter¹  Niklas Jahn¹  Alev Burak¹  Christopher Sinke¹  Tillmann H. C. Krüger¹  Kai G. Kahl¹ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry, Hannover Medical School;Division of Clinical Psychology and Sexual Medicine, Hannover Medical School

关键词: metacognitive therapy;    Attentional Training Technique;    dose-dependent effects;    Attentional Control Scale (ACS);    MCT;    ATT;    attentional performance;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00401

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background Attentional control has been observed to play an important role in affective disorders by impacting information processing, the ability to exert top–down control in response to distracting stimuli, and by affecting emotional regulation. Prior studies demonstrated an association between attentional control and response to psychotherapy, thereby identifying attentional control as an interesting prognostic pre-treatment factor. Improving attentional control and flexibility is a cornerstone in metacognitive therapy (MCT), which is trained by the use of the Attentional Training Technique (ATT). However, as of yet, it remains unclear if pre-treatment attentional control is related to the effect of ATT.

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