Alicia Deale

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Dr Alicia Deale is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and researcher, and has been based at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT) at King's College London in the United Kingdom since 1999.[1] Dr Deale's research has been very influential in the UK; her research on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) was key evidence used by NICE to justify recommending CBT as an "evidence-based" treatment for patients within the British National Health Service (NHS).

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 1997, Cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.[2] (Full text)
  • 1998, Illness beliefs and treatment outcome in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[3] (Abstract)
  • 2001, Patients' perceptions of medical care in chronic fatigue syndrome[4] (Abstract)

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  1. ↑ King's College London. "Alicia Deale - Research Portal". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Deale, A.; Chalder, T.; Marks, I.; Wessely, S. (March 1997). "Cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial" (PDF). The American Journal of Psychiatry. 154 (3): 408–414. doi:10.1176/ajp.154.3.408. ISSN 0002-953X. PMID 9054791.
  3. ↑ Deale, A.; Chalder, T.; Wessely, S. (July 1998). "Illness beliefs and treatment outcome in chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 45 (1): 77–83. ISSN 0022-3999. PMID 9720857.
  4. ↑ Deale, A.; Wessely, S. (June 2001). "Patients' perceptions of medical care in chronic fatigue syndrome". Social Science & Medicine (1982). 52 (12): 1859–1864. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 11352411.

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - A type of psychotherapy geared toward modifying alleged unhealthy thinking, behaviors or illness beliefs. One of the treatment arms used in the controversial PACE trial.

See cognitive behavioral therapy.

somatic symptom disorder A psychiatric term to describe an alleged condition whereby a person's thoughts somehow cause physical symptoms. The actual existence of such a condition is highly controversial, due to a lack of scientific evidence. It is related to other psychiatric terms, such as "psychosomatic", "neurasthenia", and "hysteria". Older terms include "somatization", "somatoform disorder", and "conversion disorder". Such terms refer to a scientifically-unsupported theory that claims that a wide range of physical symptoms can be created by the human mind, a theory which has been criticized as "mind over matter" parapsychology, a pseudoscience.

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