title: Trial-Based Thought Record (TBTR): preliminary data on a strategy to deal with core beliefs by combining sentence reversion and the use of analogy with a judicial process.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To propose the Trial-Based Thought Record, a modified, 7-column thought record addressing core beliefs by sentence reversion and the analogy to a trial.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clients (n = 30) participated in a simulation of a trial and exhibited shifts in their adherence to core beliefs and in the intensity of corresponding emotions after each step (investigation, prosecutor s plea, defense attorney s plea, prosecutor s second plea, defense attorney s second plea, and jury verdict) during a session.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant mean reductions existed between percent values after investigation (taken as baseline) and defense attorney s plea (p < 0.001), and after the jury s verdict, either in beliefs (p < 0.001) or in intensity of emotions (p < 0.001). Significant differences also emerged between the defense attorney s first and second pleas (p = 0.009) and between the defense attorney s second plea and jury s verdict concerning core beliefs (p = 0.005) and emotions (p = 0.02).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Trial-Based Thought Record may at least temporarily help patients constructively reduce attachment to negative core beliefs and corresponding emotions.
authors: Psychiatry Service, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. irismar.oliveira@uol.com.br
authors: Irismar Reis de
authors: IR
authors: Oliveira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003416:Criminal Law; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011582:Psychological Theory; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013850:Thinking; D055815:Young Adult