ABSTRACT
Because the CAS links disorder to styles of responding to thoughts and beliefs, an aim of treatment is to develop alternative styles of responding to these inner events. As we have seen, the CAS refers to a state of processing consisting of worry, rumination, threat monitoring, suppression and other maladaptive coping behaviours. Wells and Matthews (1994) introduced the term ``detached mindfulness'' (DM) to refer speci®cally to an alternative state of processing that is the antithesis of the CAS and also aims to shift the patient from object-mode to metacognitive mode of processing.
