The process of change in cognitive therapy: Schema change or acquisition of compensatory skills?

This article compares two competing models of the process of change in cognitive therapy: the schema changemodel and the compensatory skillsmodel. There are two key differences between the models: They differ in their predictions about the timingof schema change, and in their statements about the generalityof the lessons learned in cognitive therapy. Experiments that test these two differences between the models are suggested.

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1. University of California, San Francisco, USA Jacqueline B. Persons

1. Jacqueline B. Persons