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  1. Metacognitive beliefs in health anxiety: psychometric evaluation of the MCQ-HA and a test of the metacognitive model applied to health anxiety in a Norwegian sample

    Article • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, November 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  2. Metacognitive therapy and work-focus for patients with depression, anxiety or comorbid depression and anxiety on sick leave: a single-centre, open-label randomised controlled trial

    Article • EClinicalMedicine, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  3. Do Parental Psychopathology and Higher‐Order Beliefs Predict Symptom Changes in Young People Following Metacognitive Therapy?

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, July 2025, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  4. Relationships between anxiety, depression and wound healing outcomes in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • PLOS One, May 2025, PLOS

    Dr Adrian Wells

  5. Cost-effectiveness of metacognitive therapy for cardiac rehabilitation participants with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression: analysis of a randomised controlled trial

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2024, BMJ

    Dr Adrian Wells

  6. Improving the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Depression and Anxiety in Cardiac Rehabilitation: The PATHWAY Research Programme Including 4 RCTs

    Article • Programme Grants for Applied Research, September 2024, National Institute for Health Research

    Dr Adrian Wells

  7. Relationships between metacognitive beliefs and anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  8. Cardiac rehabilitation for children and young people (CardioActive): protocol for a single-blind randomised feasibility and acceptability study of a centre-based cardiac rehabilitation programme versus usual care in 11–16 years with heart conditions

    Article • BMJ Open, February 2024, BMJ

    Dr Adrian Wells

  9. Metacognitive therapy home-based self-help for anxiety and depression in cardiovascular disease patients in the UK: A single-blind randomised controlled trial

    Article • PLoS Medicine, January 2023, PLOS

    Dr Adrian Wells

  10. A framework for implementing Patient and Public Involvement in mental health research: The PATHWAY research programme benchmarked against NIHR standards

    Article • Health Expectations, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  11. The Effectiveness of Metacognitive Therapy Compared to Behavioral Activation for Severely Depressed Outpatients: A Single-Center Randomized Trial

    Article • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, December 2022, Karger Publishers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  12. Discrete choice experiment to investigate preferences for psychological intervention in cardiac rehabilitation

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2022, BMJ

    Dr Adrian Wells

  13. Youth Metacognitive Therapy (YoMeta): protocol for a single-blind randomised feasibility trial of a transdiagnostic intervention versus treatment as usual in 11–16-year-olds with common mental health problems

    Article • Pilot and Feasibility Studies, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  14. Evaluating Metacognitive Therapy to Improve Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Cardiovascular Disease: The NIHR Funded PATHWAY Research Programme

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, June 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  15. Self-help metacognitive therapy for anxiety and depression in heart patients

    Article • Health Psychology, May 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Adrian Wells

  16. Metacognitive therapy and work-focused interventions for patients on sick leave due to anxiety and depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled wait-list trial

    Article • Trials, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  17. Metacognitive Beliefs and Suicidal Ideation: An Experience Sampling Study

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Adrian Wells, Dr Daniel Pratt

  18. Metacognition, rumination and suicidal ideation: An experience sampling test of the self-regulatory executive function model

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells, Dr Daniel Pratt

  19. Improving the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions for Depression and Anxiety in Cardiac Rehabilitation: PATHWAY—A Single-Blind, Parallel, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Group Metacognitive Therapy

    Article • Circulation, July 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Adrian Wells

  20. Cardiac rehabilitation patients experiences and understanding of group metacognitive therapy: a qualitative study

    Article • Open Heart, July 2021, BMJ

    Dr Adrian Wells

  21. Covid-19, Lockdown and Self-Isolation: Evaluation of Deliberate Self-Harm Admissions

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, May 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  22. Metacognitive beliefs and their relationship with anxiety and depression in physical illnesses: A systematic review

    Article • PLOS One, September 2020, PLOS

    Dr Adrian Wells

  23. Protocol for the economic evaluation of metacognitive therapy for cardiac rehabilitation participants with symptoms of anxiety and/or depression

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2020, BMJ

    Dr Adrian Wells

  24. Utilising Patient and Public Involvement in Stated Preference Research in Health: Learning from the Existing Literature and a Case Study

    Article • The Patient Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  25. Author Correction: Metacognitive Therapy versus Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Adults with Major Depression: A Parallel Single-Blind Randomised Trial

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  26. Establishing the Feasibility of Group Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Single-Blind Randomized Pilot Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, June 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  27. Metacognition in Cardiac Patients With Anxiety and Depression: Psychometric Performance of the Metacognitions Questionnaire 30 (MCQ-30)

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  28. Metacognitive Therapy versus Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Adults with Major Depression: A Parallel Single-Blind Randomised Trial

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  29. Metacognitive Therapy for Depression: A 3-Year Follow-Up Study Assessing Recovery, Relapse, Work Force Participation, and Quality of Life

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  30. Breaking the Cybernetic Code: Understanding and Treating the Human Metacognitive Control System to Enhance Mental Health

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  31. What Comes First Metacognition or Negative Emotion? A Test of Temporal Precedence

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, November 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  32. Measuring the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome in Cardiac Patients With Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: Psychometric Properties of the CAS-1R

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  33. Testing relationships between metacognitive beliefs, anxiety and depression in cardiac and cancer patients: Are they transdiagnostic?

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  34. A Comparison of Metacognitive Therapy in Current Versus Persistent Depressive Disorder – A Pilot Outpatient Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  35. Metacognitive Therapy of Early Traumatized Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Phase-II Baseline Controlled Trial

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  36. A Preliminary Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Group Metacognitive Therapy in a Mixed Psychological Disorder Sample

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  37. Modeling the Relationships Between Metacognitive Beliefs, Attention Control and Symptoms in Children With and Without Anxiety Disorders: A Test of the S-REF Model

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  38. Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients’ Accounts of Their Emotional Distress and Psychological Needs: A Qualitative Study

    Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, June 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Adrian Wells

  39. Metacognition, Hardiness, and Grit as Resilience Factors in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Operations: A Simulation Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  40. In or out of work: A preliminary investigation of mental health, trait anxiety and metacognitive beliefs as predictors of work status

    Article • Clinical Psychologist, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  41. What Lies Beneath Trait-Anxiety? Testing the Self-Regulatory Executive Function Model of Vulnerability

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  42. Qualitative Analysis of Emotional Distress in Cardiac Patients From the Perspectives of Cognitive Behavioral and Metacognitive Theories: Why Might Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Have Limited Benefit, and Might Metacognitive Therapy Be More Effective?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  43. Metacognitive Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Case Series

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  44. Group Cognitive-Behavior Therapy or Group Metacognitive Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Benchmarking and Comparative Effectiveness in a Routine Clinical Service

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  45. Single Dose of the Attention Training Technique Increases Resting Alpha and Beta-Oscillations in Frontoparietal Brain Networks: A Randomized Controlled Comparison

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  46. Metacognitive therapy (MCT) vs. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in generalised anxiety disorder

    Article • BJPsych Open, September 2018, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Hans Nordahl, Dr Adrian Wells

  47. Brief Cognitive Therapy Plus Treatment as Usual for Social Anxiety Disorder: a Randomized Trial of Adults in India

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  48. Metacognitive therapy home-based self-help for cardiac rehabilitation patients experiencing anxiety and depressive symptoms: study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (PATHWAY Home-MCT)

    Article • Trials, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  49. Effects of the Attention Training Technique on Auditory Hallucinations in Schizo-Affective Disorder: A Single Case Study

    Article • Case Reports in Psychiatry, August 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Adrian Wells

  50. Assessment of metacognitive beliefs in an at risk mental state for psychosis: A validation study of the Metacognitions Questionnaire-30

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, June 2018, Wiley

    Measha Bright, Dr Adrian Wells

  51. Letter to the editor: Metacognitive therapy or metacognitive training: What's in a name?

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  52. The Attention Training Technique improves Children's ability to delay gratification: A controlled comparison with progressive relaxation

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  53. Cost-effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic review

    Article • Heart, April 2018, BMJ

    Dr Adrian Wells

  54. Metacognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: An A–B Replication Series Across Social Anxiety Subtypes

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  55. Improving the effectiveness of psychological interventions for depression and anxiety in the cardiac rehabilitation pathway using group-based metacognitive therapy (PATHWAY Group MCT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

    Article • Trials, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  56. Metacognitive beliefs as psychological predictors of social functioning: An investigation with young people at risk of psychosis

    Article • Psychiatry Research, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  57. Explaining depression symptoms in patients with social anxiety disorder: Do maladaptive metacognitive beliefs play a role?

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  58. Worry and rumination: do they prolong physiological and affective recovery from stress?

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  59. Metacognitive therapy vs. eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for posttraumatic stress disorder: study protocol for a randomized superiority trial

    Article • Trials, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  60. Neurophysiological correlates of the attention training technique: A component study

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  61. Do people with psychosis engage in unhelpful metacognitive coping strategies? A test of the validity of the Cognitive Attentional Syndrome (CAS) in a clinical sample

    Article • Psychiatry Research, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  62. Group Metacognitive Therapy vs. Mindfulness Meditation Therapy in a Transdiagnostic Patient Sample: A Randomised Feasibility Trial

    Article • Psychiatry Research, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  63. The effect of thought importance on stress responses: a test of the metacognitive model

    Article • Stress, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  64. Attentional avoidance increases voice hearing in an analogue task in people with psychosis: An experimental study

    Article • Psychiatry Research, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  65. The role of cognitive and metacognitive factors in non-clinical paranoia and negative affect

    Article • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  66. Individual differences in metacognitive knowledge contribute to psychological vulnerability more than the presence of a mental disorder does

    Article • Mental Health & Prevention, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  67. Social cognition and metacognition in social anxiety: A systematic review

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  68. Are experiences of psychosis associated with unhelpful metacognitive coping strategies? A systematic review of the evidence

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  69. Metacognitive Therapy in Major Depression: An Open Trial of Comorbid Cases

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  70. Predictors of Biased Self-perception in Individuals with High Social Anxiety: The Effect of Self-consciousness in the Private and Public Self Domains

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  71. Social anxiety and work status: the role of negative metacognitive beliefs, symptom severity and cognitive-behavioural factors

    Article • Journal of Mental Health, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  72. An exploration of the relationship between use of safety-seeking behaviours and psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  73. Testing the metacognitive model against the benchmark CBT model of social anxiety disorder: Is it time to move beyond cognition?

    Article • PLOS One, May 2017, PLOS

    Dr Adrian Wells

  74. ‘You've got your own demons that you've got to fight every day’: A qualitative exploration of how people respond to the experience of psychosis

    Article • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  75. Cognitive and metacognitive predictors of symptom improvement following treatment for social anxiety disorder: A secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  76. Measuring common responses to psychosis: Assessing the psychometric properties of a new measure

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  77. Metacognitive beliefs and rumination as predictors of anger: A prospective study

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, February 2017, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  78. Metacognitive Therapy for Depression in Adults: A Waiting List Randomized Controlled Trial with Six Months Follow-Up

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Adrian Wells

  79. Rumination

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  80. A meta-analysis of metacognitive beliefs as implicated in the self-regulatory executive function model in clinical psychosis

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  81. The role of unhelpful metacognitive beliefs in psychosis: Relationships with positive symptoms and negative affect

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  82. Experimental modification of perspective on thoughts and metacognitive beliefs in alcohol use disorder

    Article • Psychiatry Research, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  83. Is metacognition a causal moderator of the relationship between catastrophic misinterpretation and health anxiety? A prospective study

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  84. Can the attention training technique turn one marshmallow into two? Improving children's ability to delay gratification

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  85. SSRI vs Cognitive therapy in patients with social phobia

    Article • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, January 2016, Karger Publishers

    Hans Nordahl, Professor, Director Gunnar Morken, Dr Adrian Wells

  86. Metacognitive beliefs moderate the relationship between catastrophic misinterpretation and health anxiety

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, August 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  87. Metacognition in addictive behaviors

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  88. The Metacognitions about Smoking Questionnaire: Development and psychometric properties

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  89. Early trauma, negative affect, and anxious attachment: the role of metacognition

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  90. Emotion regulation as a mediator in the relationship between attachment and depressive symptomatology: A systematic review

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  91. Unique Contributions of Metacognition and Cognition to Depressive Symptoms

    Article • The Journal of General Psychology, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  92. Refraining from Intrusive Thoughts is Strategy Dependent: A Comment on Sugiura, et al. and a Preliminary Informal Test of Detached Mindfulness, Acceptance, and other Strategies

    Article • Psychological Reports, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Adrian Wells

  93. An open trial of group metacognitive therapy for depression in Norway

    Article • Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  94. How to Deal with Negative Thoughts? A Preliminary Comparison of Detached Mindfulness and Thought Evaluation in Socially Anxious Individuals

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  95. Metacognitive Therapy Versus Prolonged Exposure in Adults with Chronic Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  96. Schizophrenia and Metacognition: An Investigation of Course of Illness and Metacognitive Beliefs Within a First Episode Psychosis

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr. Morten Hesse, Dr Adrian Wells

  97. A Randomised Controlled Study of the Effects of the Attention Training Technique on Traumatic Stress Symptoms, Emotional Attention Set Shifting and Flexibility

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  98. Group Metacognitive Therapy for Severe Antidepressant and CBT Resistant Depression: A Baseline-Controlled Trial

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  99. Metacognitive therapy in people with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis and medication resistant symptoms: A feasibility study

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  100. Metacognitive therapy in recurrent depression: A case replication series in Denmark

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  101. Attention Training Reduces Intrusive Thoughts Cued by a Narrative of Stressful Life Events: A Controlled Study

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  102. Metacognitive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Nature, Evidence and an Individual Case Illustration

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  103. Advances in Metacognitive Therapy

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  104. Metacognitive beliefs in adolescents with an at-risk mental state for psychosis

    Article • Early Intervention in Psychiatry, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  105. An experimental manipulation of metacognition: A test of the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  106. Metacognitive Therapy in Treatment-Resistant Psychosis: A Multiple-Baseline Study

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  107. Does Metacognition Make a Unique Contribution to Health Anxiety When Controlling for Neuroticism, Illness Cognition, and Somatosensory Amplification?

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, January 2013, Springer Publishing Company

    Dr Adrian Wells

  108. A Multiple‐Baseline Study of the Effects Associated With Metacognitive Therapy in Postpartum Depression

    Article • Journal of Midwifery & Women s Health, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  109. Automatic thoughts and meta-cognition as predictors of depressive or anxious symptoms: A prospective study of two trajectories

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  110. On the relationship between temperament, metacognition, and anxiety: independent and mediated effects

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  111. Metacognition and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: The Contribution of Thought-Fusion Beliefs and Beliefs about Rituals

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  112. Development and Preliminary Validation of the Thought Control Questionnaire for Adolescents (TCQ-A)

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  113. Metacognitive therapy in treatment-resistant depression: A platform trial

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  114. A Triphasic Metacognitive Formulation of Problem Drinking

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, May 2012, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  115. Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With Metacognitive Therapy: A Preliminary Controlled Trial

    Article • Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  116. Metacognitive Therapy

    Article • March 2012, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  117. Social Metacognition

    Article • December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Taya R Cohen, Dr Adrian Wells

  118. Metacognitions and negative emotions as predictors of symptom severity in chronic fatigue syndrome

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  119. The temporal precedence of metacognition in the development of anxiety and depression symptoms in the context of life-stress: A prospective study

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  120. Meta-Cognitive Therapy Without Metacognition: A Case of ADHD

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, March 2011, American Psychiatric Association

    Dr Adrian Wells

  121. Metacognition and persecutory delusions: Tests of a metacognitive model in a clinical population and comparisons with non-patients

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, February 2011, Wiley

    Ross White, Dr Adrian Wells

  122. Conceptual Models of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Article • Psychiatric Annals, February 2011, SLACK, Inc.

    Dr Adrian Wells

  123. Generalized anxiety disorder

    Article • October 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  124. Metacognitions across the continuum of drinking behaviour

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  125. Association Between Abnormal Psychosocial Situations in Childhood, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder

    Article • Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, September 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Adrian Wells

  126. A pilot randomized trial of metacognitive therapy vs applied relaxation in the treatment of adults with generalized anxiety disorder

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  127. Metacognition, memory disorganization and rumination in posttraumatic stress symptoms

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  128. An empirical test of the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Replication and extension

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  129. Metacognitive Theory and Therapy for Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Review and Status

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Adrian Wells

  130. Metacognitions as a predictor of drinking status and level of alcohol use following CBT in problem drinkers: A prospective study

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  131. Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders

    Article • September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  132. The Relationship among Metacognitions, Attentional Control, and State Anxiety

    Article • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  133. A metacognitive model of problem drinking

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, September 2009, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  134. Imagery rescripting as a brief stand-alone treatment for depressed patients with intrusive memories

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, July 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Pasco Fearon, Chris Brewin, Dr Adrian Wells

  135. A Prospective Test of the Clinical Metacognitive Model of Rumination and Depression

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  136. Metacognition and Cognition as Predictors of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A Prospective Study

    Article • International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  137. An empirical test of the metacognitive model of obsessive-compulsive symptoms: Fusion beliefs, beliefs about rituals, and stop signals

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, May 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  138. Change in metacognitions predicts outcome in obsessive–compulsive disorder patients undergoing treatment with exposure and response prevention

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, April 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  139. Metacognitive Therapy: Cognition Applied To Regulating Cognition

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, November 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  140. Psychometric characteristics of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire and Metacognitions Questionnaire-30 and metacognitive predictors of worry and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in a Turkish sample

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, November 2008, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  141. Psychological Models of Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Article • September 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Adrian Wells

  142. Treating Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating

    Article • August 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  143. Measuring metacognitions associated with emotional distress: Factor structure and predictive validity of the metacognitions questionnaire 30

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, August 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  144. Psychological factors predicting stress symptoms: Metacognition, thought control, and varieties of worry

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, July 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  145. Metacognitive therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder: A case series

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, June 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  146. Cognitive Therapy for Generalised Anxiety Disorder

    Article • May 2008, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  147. Cognitive Therapy for Social Phobia

    Article • May 2008, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  148. Identifying Specific Interpretations and Exploring the Nature of Safety Behaviours for People Who Hear Voices: An Exploratory Study

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, May 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  149. Belief domains of the Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44) and their specific relationship with obsessive–compulsive symptoms

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  150. Metacognition, perceived stress, and negative emotion

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  151. Metacognitive beliefs about alcohol use: Development and validation of two self-report scales

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  152. Chronic PTSD Treated With Metacognitive Therapy: An Open Trial

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  153. Metacognitive Therapy in Recurrent and Persistent Depression: A Multiple-Baseline Study of a New Treatment

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chris Brewin, Dr Adrian Wells

  154. “I’ll believe it when I can see it”: Imagery rescripting of intrusive sensory memories in depression

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, December 2007, Elsevier

    Chris Brewin, Dr Adrian Wells

  155. Intrusive images and memories in major depression

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  156. Metacognition as a mediator of the relationship between emotion and smoking dependence

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  157. Metacognitive beliefs across the continuum of psychosis: Comparisons between patients with psychotic disorders, patients at ultra-high risk and non-patients

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, September 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  158. The relative contribution of metacognitive beliefs and expectancies to drinking behaviour

    Article • Alcohol and Alcoholism, August 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Adrian Wells

  159. Relationships between worry, psychotic experiences and emotional distress in patients with schizophrenia spectrum diagnoses and comparisons with anxious and non-patient groups

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, July 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  160. Belief disconfirmation versus habituation approaches to situational exposure in panic disorder with agoraphobia: A pilot study

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  161. The Attention Training Technique: Theory, Effects, and a Metacognitive Hypothesis on Auditory Hallucinations

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  162. Cognition About Cognition: Metacognitive Therapy and Change in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Phobia

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, February 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  163. Cognitive therapy for bulimia nervosa: an A-B replication series

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, January 2007, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  164. Assessing Eating Disorder Thoughts and Behaviors: The Development and Preliminary Evaluation of Two Questionnaires

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  165. Metacognitions in Problem Drinkers

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  166. Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

    Article • October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  167. Does maternal psychopathology discriminate between children with DSM-IV generalised anxiety disorder or oppositional defiant disorder? The predictive validity of maternal axis I and axis II psychopathology

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  168. Metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: An open trial

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, September 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  169. Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders

    Article • April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  170. Number of bodily symptoms predicts outcome more accurately than health anxiety in patients attending neurology, cardiology, and gastroenterology clinics

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, April 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  171. Cognitive Processes, Reasoning Biases and Persecutory Delusions: A Comparative Study

    Article • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, March 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  172. Worry and its Psychological Disorders

    Article • January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  173. Metacognitions about alcohol use in problem drinkers

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, January 2006, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  174. Post-traumatic stress symptoms: Tests of relationships with thought control strategies and beliefs as predicted by the metacognitive model

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, January 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  175. Detached Mindfulness In Cognitive Therapy: A Metacognitive Analysis And Ten Techniques

    Article • Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  176. How effective are cognitive and behavioral treatments for obsessive–compulsive disorder? A clinical significance analysis

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, December 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  177. Distress in Parkinson's disease: Contributions of disease factors and metacognitive style

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2005, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Dr Adrian Wells

  178. Experimental modification of beliefs in obsessive–compulsive disorder: a test of the metacognitive model

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  179. The Metacognitive Model of GAD: Assessment of Meta-Worry and Relationship With DSM-IV Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  180. Metacognitions, emotion and alcohol use

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, January 2005, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  181. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms: the contribution of metacognitions and responsibility

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  182. Metacognitive therapy for PTSD: a preliminary investigation of a new brief treatment

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, December 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  183. Interpretations of voices in patients with hallucinations and non-patient controls: a comparison and predictors of distress in patients

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  184. Childhood adversity and frequent medical consultations

    Article • General Hospital Psychiatry, September 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  185. Metacognitive therapy for PTSD: A core treatment manual

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, September 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  186. Psychological treatment of social phobia

    Article • Psychiatry, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Dean McMillan, Dr Adrian Wells

  187. Analysis of thin AlN carrier exclusion layers in AlGaN/GaN microwave heterojunction field-effect transistors

    Article • Semiconductor Science and Technology, April 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mohamed Missous, Dr Adrian Wells

  188. A short form of the metacognitions questionnaire: properties of the MCQ-30

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, April 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  189. A cognitive model of bulimia nervosa

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  190. Dose meta-cognition or responsibility predict obsessive–compulsive symptoms: a test of the metacognitive model

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, March 2004, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  191. Development and preliminary validation of the Meta-cognitions Questionnaire—Adolescent Version

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, January 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  192. Religion and mental health: Towards a cognitive-behavioural framework

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, September 2003, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  193. A comparison of metacognitions in patients with hallucinations, delusions, panic disorder, and non-patient controls

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, February 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  194. Depressive Rumination

    Article • January 2003, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  195. Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Adrian Wells

  196. Cognitive and emotional predictors of predisposition to hallucinations in non-patients

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, September 2002, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  197. Worry, Metacognition, and GAD: Nature, Consequences, and Treatment

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, June 2002, Springer Publishing Company

    Dr Adrian Wells

  198. The role of metacognitive beliefs in auditory hallucinations

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, June 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  199. Death beliefs, superstitious beliefs and health anxiety

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2002, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  200. GAD, Metacognition, and Mindfulness: An Information Processing Analysis

    Article • Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, February 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Adrian Wells

  201. Emotional Disorders and Metacognition

    Article • January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  202. Effects of heart rate information on anxiety, perspective taking, and performance in high and low social-evaluative anxiety

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  203. GAD, metacognition, and mindfulness: An information processing analysis.

    Article • Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Adrian Wells

  204. Brief cognitive therapy for social phobia: a case series

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  205. An experimental investigation of thought suppression and anxiety in children

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, March 2001, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  206. Metacognitive beliefs about rumination in recurrent major depression

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, March 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  207. Emotional, Cognitive, and Behavioral Characteristics of Medical Outpatients

    Article • Psychosomatics, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  208. Exercising for the wrong reasons: relationships among eating disorder beliefs, dysfunctional exercise beliefs and coping

    Article • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, January 2001, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  209. Further tests of a cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder: Metacognitions and worry in GAD, panic disorder, social phobia, depression, and nonpatients

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  210. Positive beliefs about depressive rumination: Development and preliminary validation of a self-report scale

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  211. Prevalence and predictors of acute stress disorder and PTSD following road traffic accidents: Thought control strategies and social support

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  212. Social phobic interoception: effects of bodily information on anxiety, beliefs and self-processing

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, January 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  213. Thought control strategies in schizophrenia: a comparison with non-patients

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, December 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  214. ERRATUM

    Article • Psychological Medicine, November 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  215. The prediction of parasuicide repetition in a high-risk group

    Article • British Journal of Clinical Psychology, November 1999, Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  216. A Cognitive Model of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Article • Behavior Modification, October 1999, SAGE Publications

    Dr Adrian Wells

  217. The Thought Control Questionnaire – psychometric properties in a clinical sample, and relationships with PTSD and depression

    Article • Psychological Medicine, September 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  218. The observer perspective: biased imagery in social phobia, agoraphobia, and blood/injury phobia

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, July 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  219. An experimental investigation of the role of safety-seeking behaviours in the maintenance of panic disorder with agoraphobia

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  220. Preliminary tests of a cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  221. Brief cognitive therapy for panic disorder: A randomized controlled trial.

    Article • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, January 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Adrian Wells

  222. The Manchester bombing: Providing a rational response

    Article • Journal of Mental Health, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Adrian Wells

  223. Relationships between worry, obsessive–compulsive symptoms and meta-cognitive beliefs

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, September 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  224. Assessment of beliefs in exercise dependence: The development and preliminary validation of the exercise beliefs questionnaire

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, September 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  225. How do I look with my minds eye: perspective taking in social phobic imagery

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  226. Effects of attention training on hypochondriasis: a brief case series

    Article • Psychological Medicine, January 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Adrian Wells

  227. Social phobia: Effects of external attention on anxiety, negative beliefs, and perspective taking

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  228. Beliefs about Worry and Intrusions: The Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire and its Correlates

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, May 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  229. The Eating Disorder Belief Questionnaire: Preliminary development

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, April 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  230. Anxiety and cognition

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychiatry, November 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Adrian Wells

  231. Modelling cognition in emotional disorder: The S-REF model

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  232. Worry and the incubation of intrusive images following stress

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  233. Social phobia: The role of in-situation safety behaviors in maintaining anxiety and negative beliefs

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  234. Qualitative dimensions of normal worry and normal obsessions: A comparative study

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  235. The thought control questionnaire: A measure of individual differences in the control of unwanted thoughts

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  236. Panic disorder in association with relaxation induced anxiety: An attentional training approach to treatment

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 1990, Elsevier

    Dr Adrian Wells

  237. Metacognitive Therapy for Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  238. Metacognitive Therapy for Depressive Rumination

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  239. Nature, Functions, and Beliefs about Depressive Rumination

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  240. Rumination, Depression, and Metacognition: the S-REF Model

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  241. The Anxious Thoughts Inventory and Related Measures of Metacognition and Worry

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells

  242. The Metacognitive Model of Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder

    Article • Wiley

    Dr Adrian Wells