Symptoms also improved in around 48 % of patients
receiving psychological therapies, compared with nearly 24 % in the control group, who received another intervention such as usual management.
Resistance training qualifies as a true
health psychological therapy for treating cognitive and executive function declines associated with aging.
Psychological therapy studies for these patients have produced mixed, but largely negative results and demonstrate the difficulty of working with patients with limited emotional and cognitive resources.
I just finished a book on a new form
of psychological therapy that has at least four chapters with demons in a chapter title.
Participants were adults aged 18 upwards, presenting with anxiety and / or depressive disorders to a primary care
psychological therapies service in NHS Tayside.
Jacobson methodology, in distinguishing between improvement and recovery on a standardized measure of general vulnerability to anxiety, provides a stringent but clinically more meaningful evaluation of the efficacy of
psychological therapies with GAD than has been available hitherto.
New research suggests that
psychological therapies such as relaxation and hypnosis could offer long - term benefits for people who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
A small number of RCTs investigating stress management, group CBT or
other psychological therapies compared with waiting list / usual care did not consistently find significant differences between the groups.
One of the assured results of
modern psychological therapy is that unless there is some offer of security, some removal of the threat of the rejection we fear, we can not face the depths of our hurt and guilt.
Common mental disorder including psychotic experiences: Trailblazing a new recovery pathway within the Improving Access to
Psychological Therapies programme in England.
When we give a Christian interpretation of that decision, and speak of personal faith in God who has revealed himself through a personal life, we go beyond what psychological analysis can require, but we are speaking relevantly to the very search which
psychological therapy involves.
In the early stages of dementia, recognising early life trauma may enable patients to
access psychological therapy prior to significant cognitive decline.
The authors say «We have provided the first evidence that two
brief psychological therapies targeting the two leading mental health related causes of the global burden of disease, delivered by the same lay counsellor in routine primary care, to patients who had never received such therapies before, can lead to sustained improvements in health over one year, and that the investments made in providing this intervention is excellent value for money.
«At Exeter we are already developing
specific psychological therapies, running clinical trials of novel drug approaches and using - cutting edge genetic techniques to identify new targets for safe and effective therapies and to allow us to use current treatments in a more focussed way.»
Only ten of the 56 Trusts were able to report how many people received
psychological therapy prior to ECT in compliance with government guidelines.
The evidence which is available is not convincing as to the efficacy for either pharmacological or
current psychological therapies for youth depression, anxiety and co-morbid AOD abuse.
She has been working in community mental health teams for over 8 years in West London Mental Health Trust, specialising in the provision of evidence -
based psychological therapies for clients with severe and enduring mental health problems, and on the whole has served in the NHS for over 13 years.
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The study published in the Arch Gen Psychiatry gives another indication that it may be worth considering a
structured psychological therapy approach for those patients at highest risk of relapse: people with recurrent major depression.
Are obsessions and compulsions the result of your brain going haywire, or could they have a meaning and a function, which can be addressed
through psychological therapies?
Sometimes it is confused with «religious» or «Christian» or «Bible based» counseling which is
not psychological therapy but religious instruction or lecture.
In England, a randomized controlled trial of health visitor
delivered psychological therapies for women at high risk of post-natal depression improved outcomes at lower costs than health visitor usual care.
The researchers next plan to examine the effects of
psychological therapies on patients» ability to function at work, school and during other routine activities.
CBT - E is a powerful demonstration of how careful development of
new psychological therapies, supported by large - scale clinical trials, can bring treatment within reach.