Cognitive Barriers to Successful Weight Management: 7 Stymie Beasts
| Autor: | Ross Krawczyk, Daniel S. Kirschenbaum |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Recall medicine.medical_treatment 05 social sciences Cognition medicine.disease Cognitive bias 030227 psychiatry Cognitive behavioral therapy 03 medical and health sciences Clinical Psychology 0302 clinical medicine Emotive medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Moral responsibility Attrition Attribution Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. 28:309-326 |
| ISSN: | 1077-7229 |
| Popis: | This paper focuses on one of the most significant barriers, especially for teenagers and their families, to the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for weight management: high rates of attrition. Cognitive barriers contribute to attrition and to decreasing commitment to full engagement in the process (deliberate practice). Excuses capture the essence of one type of those cognitive barriers. Excuses are defined as shifts in attribution from self-focused causes of struggles to achieve goals to more externally-focused causes—resulting in decreasing full engagement. Those excuses (shifts in attribution) do not just happen. People make decisions to implement those shifts away from personal responsibility. Ten cognitive biases lie at the heart of such problematic delusional decision making. This paper identifies seven excuses created by that biased decision making as anthropomorphisms called Stymie Beasts. Such unique simply worded visually distinctive creatures may help improve recall and focus on these powerful antagonists to successful weight control. Then, the use of two CBT techniques, Therapeutic Understanding of Science (TUS) and Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), illustrated with examples for all seven Stymie Beasts, shows how CBT may prevent and dismantle those Beasts (excuses). Ideas for future research using randomized controlled trials to test these notions are also presented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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