The daughter of an ill patient tells the nurse that her father would not be so sick if she had spent more time with him over the years. The nurse realizes the daughter is exhibiting which of the following cognitive distortions?
1. Personalization
2. Selective abstraction
3. Overgeneralization
4. Magnification
Personalization
Rationale: Personalization is when external events are attributed to oneself without any evidence to support the causal relationship. The daughter believes that visiting her father would have prevented the illness. Selective abstraction is the conceptualization of a situation while ignoring contradictory information. Overgeneralization is taking specific information and generalizing it broadly to unrelated situations. Magnification is seeing something as far more important than it is.
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