Her clinical work draws from emotionally focused, experiential, interpersonal and cognitive -
behavioural approaches to treatment.
Not exact matches
In terms of evidence - based physiotherapy practice, cognitive -
behavioural approaches for patients at high psychosocial risk are the recommended management
to improve patient
treatment outcomes.
For example, Persons has developed a manual that allows clinicians
to choose from a variety of cognitive
behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques.9 This
approach to using a manual - based
treatment calls for flexibility and creativity, which may make it more appealing
to therapists who would otherwise turn away from manual - based
treatments.
Special training for health visitors, including training in either cognitive
behavioural or person centred
approaches to treatment (intervention, 89 health visitors at 63 general practitioner (GP) surgeries, 2749 women) or usual care (control, 49 health visitors at 38 GP surgeries, 1335 women).
Mental health problems affect around one in five youth in Australia and internationally, 1 with major personal, societal and economic ramifications.2 3 Children's mental health problems are primarily externalising (eg, oppositional defiance, aggression) and internalising (eg, anxiety, depression) problems.1 Up
to 50 % of preschool behaviour problems persist through childhood if left untreated, then into adolescence and adulthood.4
Approaches to improving children's mental health in the population would ideally involve effective prevention in addition
to clinical
treatment of severe problems.5 6
Behavioural parenting programmes have the strongest evidence of efficacy
to date for treating children's established behaviour problems.2 7, — , 10 Although effective, parenting programmes
to treat children's established behaviour problems are cost - and time - intensive, and require an available workforce trained in evidence - based
treatments.
Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a method of
treatment for psychological disorders, that takes a practical, task - based
approach to solving problems
In contrast,
behavioural treatments aimed at teaching the child new sleep behaviours can be very effective, even in long standing severe cases.6 These types of
treatment are described in detail in France and Hudson (1993).7 While the individual efficacy of the
treatment components is not fully known, their cumulative effect appears
to be good.8, 9 Their successful use has been linked
to improvements in child behaviour, maternal health, and family functioning.10 Unfortunately, the
behavioural approach is under - utilised, possibly because in traditional form, this
treatment requires considerable time and effort from health professionals.
Heath visitors were also randomised
to train
to deliver either a cognitive
behavioural approach (CBA) or a person centred
approach (PCA)
to women at risk of depression; health visitors could offer a general practitioner appointment (GP) for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
treatment if indicated and if this was the woman's preference.
Harvey, A.G., Watkins, E.R., Mansell, W. and Shafran, R. (2004) Cognitive
behavioural processes across psychological disorders: A transdiagnostic
approach to research and
treatment.
Conduct Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence: A
behavioural approach to assessment and
treatment