The Multi-Center Dilemma Project: an investigation on the role of cognitive conflicts in health
The Multi-Center Dilemma Project is a collaborative research endeavour aimed at determining the role of dilemmas a kind of cognitive conflict, detected by using an adaptation of Kelly"s Repertory Grid Technique in a variety of clinical conditions. Implicative dilemmas appear in one third of the...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/28062 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/28062 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Psicoteràpia Cognició Teoria dels constructes personals Psychotherapy Cognition Personal construct theory |
| Resumo: | The Multi-Center Dilemma Project is a collaborative research endeavour aimed at determining the role of dilemmas a kind of cognitive conflict, detected by using an adaptation of Kelly"s Repertory Grid Technique in a variety of clinical conditions. Implicative dilemmas appear in one third of the non-clinical group (n = 321) and in about half of the clinical group (n = 286), the latter having a proportion of dilemmas that doubles that of the non-clinical sample. Within the clinical group, we studied 87 subjects, after completing a psychotherapy process, and found that therapy helps to dissolve those dilemmas. We also studied, independently, a group of subjects diagnosed with social phobia (n = 13) and a group diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (n = 13) in comparison to non-clinical groups. In both health related problems, dilemmas seem to be quite relevant. Altogether, these studies, though preliminary (and with a small group size in some cases), yield a promising perspective to the unexplored area of the role of cognitive conflicts as an issue to consider when trying to understand some clinical conditions, as well as a focus to be dealt with in psychotherapy when dilemmas are identified. Keywords: cognitive conflict, repertory grid technique, personal construct theory, social phobia, irritable bowel syndrome. |
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