Virtue-Based vs. Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Patients With Chronic Medical Disease

An adaptation of the Robles and Peralta's (2010) stress management program will be followed. This program includes key techniques from the CBT approach, such as deactivation techniques, cognitive restructuring, and assertiveness training.

A Well-being Training based on Contemplative Practices (WTCP) (Cebolla \& Alvear, 2019; Alvear \& Cebolla, 2023) will be followed. WTCP combines mindfulness practices with various activities based on virtues such as gratitude, altruism, or compassion. This program focuses on generative or constructive meditations, and puts special emphasis on virtuous actions, emotion regulation (both positive and negative emotions) and compassion, and includes strategies from positive psychology, such as strengths-based interventions, savoring, kindness, or the three good things.