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Psychotherapy provides
effective, evidenced - based counseling and therapy to all members of our community.
Still, I'm excited
about the new developments in TEAM - CBT because it does seem significantly more
effective than traditional CBT and other forms of
psychotherapy for depression that have been tested in controlled outcome studies.
This approach goes against much contemporary thinking
about the efficacy of psychological therapies and the general trend which has suggested that specifically targeted
psychotherapies are more
effective.2
The depression stream comprises the following component modules known to be
effective for people with depression: evidence - based information
about depression, with information
about the effectiveness of medical, psychological and alternative therapies; cognitive behaviour therapy; interpersonal
psychotherapy; physical activity; and relaxation.
Few studies have specifically addressed this issue.14, 15 A large scale randomized control trial (RCT) comparing CBT, counselling and psychoanalytic therapy with routine care found that, while all active treatments were moderately
effective in treating depression and brought
about short term benefits in the quality of the mother - infant relationship, there was limited evidence of benefit to infant outcome; and effects (including those on maternal mood) were not apparent at follow - up.16, 17 Similarly, a recent RCT found that, although interpersonal
psychotherapy was
effective in treating maternal depression, there was no benefit in terms of observed mother - infant interactions, infant negative emotionality, and infant attachment security.18
That is true for cognitive behaviour therapy, interpersonal
psychotherapy (IPT) and behavioural activation therapy.1 One of the problems in this field is that all types of therapy seem to be equally or
about equally
effective, 1 and there does not seem to be one type of therapy that is significantly more
effective than others.2