A 34-year-old female combat medic with PTSD from witnessing multiple battlefield casualties is in session 6 of cognitive processing therapy (CPT). She states, 'I should have saved them all — if I had been faster, they would still be alive.' Her therapist identifies this as the patient altering her understanding of the trauma to fit her pre-existing belief that she should always be able to protect others. In CPT terminology, this cognitive pattern is best described as: