Clinical implications of attribution theory and research

Harvey, John H.; Galvin, Kathryn S.

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“…For example, if the negative event was something like arguing over dishes, the therapist could help change the attribution from a global one like "he's just a negative person" to a more specific one like, "he was probably having a stressful day." As Harvey and Galvin pointed out in their review, applying the research on marital therapy to actual therapy can be challenging [51]. Couples and individual clients may have varying degrees of communication skills and functioning.…”

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Attribution Retraining for Therapeutic Change: Theory, Practice, and Future Directions

Hilt

2004

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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Attribution theory has a rich history of empirical and applied work over more than 50 years. This article draws on literature from social, cognitive, developmental, and clinical psychology to examine attribution theory and its applications to psychotherapy. Work in attribution retraining within cognitive-behavioral therapy, school-based interventions, and couples and family therapy is reviewed. Additionally, the implicit use of attribution retraining within other types of therapy is discussed. Finally, future directions for attribution retraining research and practice within various psychotherapeutic modalities are presented.Attribution retraining is a technique that has been widely used in cognitivebehavioral therapies and school-based interventions. It is based on attribution theory, that the causes people give for interpersonal and performance situations determine their subsequent perceptions and behaviors. The therapeutic technique of attribution retraining involves making clients aware of the attributions they make and helping them make more adaptive ones. Although attribution retraining forms a central component of cognitive-behavioral therapy and has been successfully used to treat at-risk children in school-based interventions, it could be applied more explicitly to a variety of psychotherapies. ATTRIBUTION THEORY IN EMPIRICAL AND APPLIED RESEARCHAttribution theory has its roots in social psychology and is based on socialcognition. Therefore, attribution research can be found in both social and cognitive literatures. Additionally, many researchers are interested in its development and 289 Ó 2004, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc. / HILT

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Attribution Retraining for Therapeutic Change: Theory, Practice, and Future Directions

Hilt

2004

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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“…For example, data on the socialcognitive link with affect not only serve to empirically specify the parameters of particular relations between variables, but also constitute critical building blocks in the development of broad theoretical conceptualizations of social behavior. Moreover, such data have also been suggested to have clinically significant implications (see, e.g., Abramson, 1988;Brehm & Smith, 1986;Carver & Scheier, 1982;Harvey & Galvin, 1984;Harvey, Ickes, & Kidd, 1981). Many social-cognitive studies, for instance, have sought to examine various cognitive processes in individuals selected on clinical instruments (e.g., measures of depression or anxiety).…”

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Affective confounds in social-cognitive research.

Ingram¹

1989

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Finally, other techniques have value for ameliorating clinically relevant emotions and are more widely applicable than misattribution, including desensitization and reattribution training designed to prevent patients from drawing pejorative self-inferences. For discussions of attribution approaches to clinical problems, see Forsterling (1985), Harvey and Galvin (1984), and Ross and Olson (1982).…”

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Misattribution, preparatory information, and speech anxiety.

Olson¹

1988

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In two experiments with undergraduate subjects, I compared the effects of misattribution versus information manipulations on speech anxiety. In Experiment 1, some subjects were allegedly exposed to subliminal noise while reading a speech in front of a camera. These subjects were told that subliminal noise makes people feel either unpleasantly aroused or pleasantly relaxed or that it has no effect. Subjects in a fourth condition were given accurate information about how they would feel (unpleasantly aroused) but were not exposed to the subliminal noise misattribution source. In Experiment 2, I replicated the arousing noise and accurate information conditions from the first study and added two new groups incorporating a delay that should preclude misattribution. In both experiments, the alleged presence of arousing subliminal noise reduced subjects' speech dysfluencies during the speech task, whereas the presentation of accurate information alone did not have a comparable ameliorative effect. Thus, both experiments supported the misattribution interpretation of why neutral labels for arousal can reduce emotionality.

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Clinical implications of attribution theory and research

Cited by 27 publications

References 45 publications

Attribution Retraining for Therapeutic Change: Theory, Practice, and Future Directions

Attribution Retraining for Therapeutic Change: Theory, Practice, and Future Directions

Affective confounds in social-cognitive research.

Misattribution, preparatory information, and speech anxiety.

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