ABSTRACT
The main purpose of the cognitive distortions questionnaire (CD-Quest) is to make patients continuously aware of cognitive distortions during therapy. The CD-Quest was developed to be used by patients during the course of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) in order to facilitate connections between cognitive errors and their consequent emotional states, as well as dysfunctional behaviors. The focus of the de Oliveira et al study was to assess the initial psychometric properties of the CD-Quest in its Brazilian Portuguese version, tested in a sample of adult undergraduate medical and psychology students, who completed the CD-Quest, the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), administered collectively within classrooms. Kostoglou and Pidgeon examined the applicability of the CD-Quest English-language edition to an Australian sample of 127 university students, in order to examine its psychometric properties as well as its clinical utility, aiming to delineate between individuals with and without symptomology for depression, anxiety and stress.
