At its core, the goal of experimental psychopathology is to understand what processes or mechanisms cause, maintain, or otherwise contribute to mental health problems (e.g., Zvolensky, Forsyth, & Johnson, 2013). There are countless examples of how this type of research has led to important improvements in treatment for people with psychological disorders. Perhaps most famously, Beck’s (1963) findings that people with depression consistently exhibit systematic thinking errors (i.e., cognitive distortions) and conscious negative automatic thoughts revolutionized how we help people with emotional disorders (see Beck, 2019, for a history of cognitive therapy for depression). Indeed, by spending a bit of time perusing treatment recommendations by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), it becomes clear quickly that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is now—and has been for a while—a first-line evidence-based treatment for almost every psychological disorder. As such, it would be easy to conclude that “our work is done.”

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认知行为疗法的创新与进步：来自实验心理病理学的见解

从本质上讲，实验性精神病理学的目标是了解哪些过程或机制导致，维持或以其他方式促成精神健康问题（例如，Zvolensky，Forsyth和Johnson，2013）。关于这种类型的研究如何导致对心理障碍患者的治疗取得重大进步的例子不胜枚举。也许最著名的是贝克（1963）的发现，抑郁症患者始终表现出系统性的思维错误（即认知扭曲），而有意识的消极的自动思维彻底改变了我们如何帮助情绪障碍的人（参见Beck，2019，有关认知疗法的历史萧条）。确实，通过花一些时间仔细研究美国国立健康与护理研究院（NICE）的治疗建议，很快就清楚地认识到，认知行为疗法（CBT）现已（并且已经存在了一段时间）是针对几乎所有心理疾病的一线循证治疗。因此，很容易得出“我们的工作已经完成”的结论。