Attribution retraining interventions are coaching exercises that involve disputing pessimistic causal attributions (i.e.,maladaptive attributions)and replacing them with optimistic attributions (i.e.,adaptive attributions).

Attribution Retraining

A psychological intervention aiming to change the way individuals explain events, focusing on enhancing positive attributions about themselves.

Pessimistic Causal Attributions

The tendency to explain negative events as being caused by stable, internal, and global factors.