Claim: Treatment for people with substance abuse disorders who are experiencing defective personal constructs should undergo cognitive restructuring (a psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions), and group therapies.
Evidence: Defective personal constructs, ignorance of interpersonal means Cognitive restructuring including directive and group therapies Cognitive restructuring (CR) is a psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions, such as all-or-nothing thinking (splitting), magical thinking, over-generalization, magnification, and emotional reasoning, which are commonly associated with many mental health disorders.