-	A focus on context and function

-	The view that new models and methods should build on other strands of CBT

-	A focus on broad and flexible repertoires vs. signs and symptoms

-	Applying processes to the clinician, not just the client

-	Expanding into more complex issues



Cognitive behavioral processes of change: Five core principles

Psychological processes of change in CBT grants the ability to move beyond syndromal protocols into an idiographic form of process-based functional analysis. 

Psychological process change

Set of five key concepts underlining third wave cognitive behavioral therapy in recognition of the development occurring within all CBT domains, all changes have been assimilated into core CBT literature over the past 15 years. 

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Person-focused, evidence-based care models that target core change processes based on testable theories. Growing concerns within the behavioral and cognitive field brought attention to the need for theoretical and philosophical development within the respective domains. Period of serious and rapid deconstruction of previous theories and rise in change-based processes, which focused on the function of cognition and emotion, rather than their form. CBT is currently an over-encompassing term for a variety of different philosophical assumptions, targeted processes, intervention approaches and philosophies.

The third wave of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

SG;, H. S. C. H. (n.d.). "third-wave" cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process-based approach to intervention in psychiatry. World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34505370/?fc=None&amp;ff=20211014202414&amp;v=2.15.0. 

"Third-wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process-based approach to intervention in psychiatry

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) 

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)

Meta-cognitive therapy (MCT)

Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP)

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

Behavioral activation

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