"Psychosocial treatments" refer to therapies and interventions that focus on improving a person's psychological well-being and social functioning. They aim to address both mental health issues and problems in relationships, social interactions, and daily life. These treatments involve different approaches, such as counseling, therapy, support groups, and skills training, to help individuals effectively manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors while also enhancing their social connections and overall quality of life.
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These findings are discussed in the context of the differential susceptibility hypothesis and highlight the importance of considering children's emotion regulation skills in the course of
psychosocial treatment for young children born premature.
The educational experts, teachers, and trainers are then expected to assess and interpret the evidence and incorporate the most effective
psychosocial treatments in their practice in an ongoing way.
Results generally showed that medication alone was more effective than
psychosocial treatments alone but that their combination was beneficial for some subsets of ADHD children beyond the improvement achieved only by medication.
The current review of the evidence
on psychosocial treatments with medications was commissioned as part of the development of ASAM's guideline.
All three medications are approved for use «within the framework of medical, social, and psychological support,» and ASAM's guideline
recommends psychosocial treatment in conjunction with the use of medications.
Background: Previous studies in nonclinical samples have
shown psychosocial treatments to be efficacious in the treatment of adolescent depression, but few psychotherapy treatment studies have been conducted in clinically referred, depressed adolescents.
For the purposes of this article, the general
term psychosocial treatments will be used to represent the variety of interventions subsumed in this literature (e.g., child behavior management, parent training, classroom management, peer interventions, etc).
Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing
multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.
Using a collaborative team approach, we aim to maximize the effectiveness of psychotherapy, medication management and
psychosocial treatments already offered at McLean with emerging techniques, technologies and interventions.
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Methadone maintenance treatment also
incorporates psychosocial treatment interventions designed to help recovering addicts work through the psychological issues that drive addiction behaviors.
Ideally, treating pharmacologists would be blind to
concurrent psychosocial treatments, and the effects of CFF - CBT or other novel treatments could be distinguished from the impact of specific pharmacological agents or dosing strategies.
In this respect, this model, which was initially developed to evaluate rigor in medical research in the 1970s, has been currently extended to support advice to educational practitioners about
which psychosocial treatments should be used that have well - documented effectiveness with children diagnosed with ADHD and which would, hopefully, replace (or work in combination with) the dominant pharmacological treatments.
Cultural Considerations in Adolescent Suicide Prevention and
Psychosocial Treatment An article about the cultural context of suicidal behavior among adolescents from different ethnic groups, and what this means for suicide prevention and treatment
Within the past 15 years, a
new psychosocial treatment termed dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was developed specifically to treat BPD, and this technique has looked promising in treatment studies.
Psychotropic medications, primarily antidepressants such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), have been found helpful for people with bulimia, particularly those with significant symptoms of depression or anxiety, or those who have not responded adequately to
psychosocial treatment alone.
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The new Empirically Validated Treatment Series is based
on psychosocial treatments for various mental health conditions that are supported by current scientific research evidence.
ADHD students given methylphenidate combined
with psychosocial treatment showed significant improvement in classroom behavior and academic performance in what is being called the first large trial of the effects of multiple doses of methylphenidate on the behavior and performance of young teens in a classroom setting.
«Use of
psychosocial treatments in conjunction with medication for opioid addiction: Recommended, but supporting research is sparse.»
For example, the Campbell Collaboration — closely affiliated with the Cochrane Collaboration — has thus far published one review on
psychosocial treatments for ADHD titled «Parent training interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder» (Zwi et al., 2012) in which only RCT studies or quasi-RCT studies are included.
But the review also found major limitations in the amount and quality of the evidence — particularly in terms of identifying the safest and most effective combinations of medications and
psychosocial treatments.
Evidence supports the use of medications, in addition to
psychosocial treatments, for people with opioid use disorders.
But while research generally supports the effectiveness of
psychosocial treatments, there are major gaps in the evidence on their use in conjunction with medications, according to a review and update in the January / February Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
What I wish we knew is whether there is a subgroup that might be stable long enough for
the psychosocial treatments alone to take effect.
«Now we have evidence that
psychosocial treatment — which provides support, not medication — is able to prevent suicide in a group at high risk of dying by suicide.»
A level 4 center provides the more complex forms of intensive neurodiagnostic monitoring, as well as more extensive medical, neuropsychological, and
psychosocial treatment.