Sentences with phrase «psychotherapy treatment studies»

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.

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I hope that findings from this study will eventually help develop better psychotherapy treatments for women with infertility.

Studies have found that the most effective treatments are a combination of psychotherapy and medication, O'Brien said.

«Patients more likely to refuse drug therapy than psychotherapy for mental health: Individuals already on drug therapy also more likely to discontinue treatment early, study says.»

According to Watson, the study suggests that optimizing sleep may be one way to maximize the effectiveness of treatments for depression such as psychotherapy.

«These findings provide strong support for Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an effective treatment for depression in children between the ages of 7 - 12,» said Laura J. Dietz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.

Now results from the study, published online by the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, show that online group therapy can be just as effective as face - to - face treatment, although the pace of recovery may be slower.

We would like to consider doing it on a larger scale, maybe having several universities studying patients with different diagnostic categories to see how a controlled psychotherapy trial produces physical brain changes as a result of treatment.

Both civilians and military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reap long - term benefits from psychotherapies used for short - term treatment, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University.

The take - away message from this study may be that if a doctor doesn't talk about psychotherapy as a treatment option, patients really should be encouraged to ask about it, she said.

«It can be like psychotherapy sped up,» says psychiatrist Stephen Ross, MD, an addiction expert at New York University who is leading a study on psilocybin treatment in cancer patients with severe anxiety.

In the new study, more than 80 % of those people who did start treatment opted for antidepressants rather than psychotherapy.

There are results from other studies showing that a combination of psychotherapy and yoga might bring about better results than singular treatment with either psychotherapy or yoga.

Several recent studies show the potential antidepressant properties of turmeric, according to Michelle Smekens, ND, FABO, naturopathic oncology provider at Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center, including one 2014 study published in Psychotherapy Research.

The studies, from New York University (29 patients) and Johns Hopkins University (51 patients), found that treatment with a single dose of psilocybin, in combination with psychotherapy, led to an substantial reduction in depression and anxiety symptoms compared to a placebo (a very low dose of psilocybin.

One study showed that supplementing with ashwagandha extract lowered anxiety levels by 56.5 percent, compared to only 30.5 percent for psychotherapy, the standard treatment for anxiety.

Studies by Dr. Helen Mayberg of Emory University have reported lower activity in the thinking parts of the brain in people with depression, and research has uncovered brain changes as people get better, either with medical treatments or psychotherapy.

The following 3 literature reviews were conducted for the updated GLAD - PC recommendations: (1) nonspecific psychosocial interventions in pediatric PC, including studies pertaining to integrated behavioral health and collaborative care models; (2) antidepressant treatment; and (3) psychotherapy interventions.

When you consider the fact that most controlled outcome studies of medications or psychotherapy for depression only report roughly 50 percent symptom reduction, on average, in 12 to 16 weeks of treatment, those findings were encouraging.

Large scale outcome studies were conducted to evaluate the efficacy of anti-depressant treatments including medications and psychotherapies.

Secondly, Bacaltchuk et al review a scant number of studies comparing combined antidepressant medication and psychotherapy with each treatment alone.

However, long - term psychoanalytic psychotherapy has not previously been studied for the treatment of bulimia nervosa.

Interpersonal psychotherapy (or perhaps another specialty therapy such as CBT) should be recommended as the treatment of choice for that subset of individuals with BED (30 % of the sample in this study) with low self - esteem and a high level of specific eating disorder psychopathology.

A current dilemma in the study of psychotherapies is how to facilitate transfer of manualised treatments to community practice.

Treatment manuals evolved in comparative psychotherapy outcome studies but are rapidly becoming a major medium for disseminating empirically supported treatments.

Another criticism leveled against manual - based treatments is that clinical situations rarely mirror the tightly controlled conditions of a clinical research study.1 Criteria for participation in psychotherapy research often require accurate and differential diagnosis, which can be time consuming and costly.

Literature on bGT for depression remains scarce, as there do not exist any published articles prior to our first proof of concept study.35 Due to the demand for low - threshold treatments, 36 we designed a CBT - based psychoeducational intervention entailing principles of resource - oriented psychotherapy and self - management therapy.

Disaggregating the effects of treatment, therapist, patient characteristics, and therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy research is notoriously difficult, and this preliminary study wisely leaves these questions alone.

«Mel Baum has a Masters Degree with studies in Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, and Diagnoses and Treatment of Mental Illness.

Recently, there've been thousands of studies on what works and doesn't in individual psychotherapy treatment.

There are well - documented associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and intimate relationship problems, including relationship distress and aggression, 1 and studies demonstrate that the presence of PTSD symptoms in one partner is associated with caregiver burden and psychological distress in the other partner.2 Although currently available individual psychotherapies for PTSD produce overall improvements in psychosocial functioning, these improvements are not specifically found in intimate relationship functioning.3 Moreover, it has been shown that even when patients receive state - of - the - art individual psychotherapy for the disorder, negative interpersonal relations predict worse treatment outcomes.4, 5

The process of psychotherapy has been well studied, showing that about 80 % of the time treatment can lead to lasting positive changes.

In it Wampold, a former statistician studying primarily outcomes with depressed patients, reported that (1) psychotherapy can be more effective than placebo, (2) no single treatment modality has the edge in efficacy, and (3) factors common to different psychotherapies, such as whether or not the therapist has established a positive working alliance with the client / patient, account for much more of the variance in outcomes than specific techniques or modalities.

The pooled results showed that group psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment after the treatment period (15 studies) and at a mean 19.1 weeks after treatment ended (10 studies)(table ⇓).

While there is strong evidence supporting effectiveness of collaborative care for adult depression, Richardson et al's study adds to results of two other studies in supporting the value of collaborative care models for adolescent depression: (1) using a similar model, Asarnow et al1 found significant advantages for collaborative depression care versus usual care (UC); (2) using a stronger medication treatment as usual condition, collaborative care with psychotherapy plus medication yielded a marginal advantage on depressive symptoms and significant advantage on mental health - related quality of...

Between - group comparisons showed that short term psychotherapy was more effective than no treatment or treatment as usual (p < 0.01 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general symptoms and social functioning) but there was no difference between short term and other forms of psychotherapy (15 studies, p = 0.69 for comparison of post-treatment effect sizes for target and general and social functioning).

Treatment Outcome Research Evergreen Psychotherapy Center Provides results of a study that combined emotional, cognitive, and family systems therapy and discusses parenting - skills training.

Schema therapy is an integrated model of psychotherapy that has been shown in multiple studies to be significantly more effective than traditional psychotherapeutic treatments for a broad range of personality disorders, contributing to real recovery for our patients and clients, not just symptom reduction.

A feasibility study on the effectiveness of this treatment program was recently published in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

New research needs to emphasize psychosocial approaches to the prevention of depression in high risk women and to the treatment needs of depressed mothers and their families.4, 7,11 Most studies of treatment have focused primarily on the mother's depression, relying on medication or individual psychotherapy, 12 rather than on the mother's needs more broadly, including her relationship with her baby and the role of the father (or other responsible adult) in providing emotional support and practical help with child care.

As the authors of the study drily noted, the fact that psychotherapy is declining and medications are far more prevalent implies «that many patients are not engaged in their preferred psychological treatment.»

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

In 2014 she completed an assignment with the University of Washington as a therapist on a five year NIMH - funded intervention study using evidence - based psychotherapy in the treatment of perinatal and post-partum depression.

She has also completed the two - year training program for the treatment of eating disorders at the Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia, again through the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy.

The implications of this study are many: (1) it shows that empirically supported treatments developed in the Western world can be adapted, applied and tested in developing countries; (2) it shows that the adaptations of interventions, when done systematically and thoughtfully in collaboration with members of the targeted population, can be translated into culturally meaningful treatments; and (3) it provides preliminary evidence that a group model of interpersonal psychotherapy can be effective in treating a depression - like syndrome in adolescents who have been affected by war and poverty.

She is certified in focusing - oriented psychotherapy; provides clinical services at Healing Path Recovery, an intensive outpatient treatment center in Newport Beach; and teaches as adjunct faculty at California Southern University in the Addiction Studies Program.

There are a number of well - designed controlled studies in support of effective treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder patients such as dialectical behavioral therapy (3) and other more straightforward cognitive behavioral therapies (4), to psychodynamic and psychoanalytically based therapies, which include mentalization - based therapy (5) and transference - focused psychotherapy (6), to the blend of cognitive and dynamic therapies in schema - focused therapy (7).

This first study of individual antidepressant psychotherapy for HIV - positive patients reveals that they, like other medically ill patients with depressive symptoms, 2,18 warrant and respond to specific antidepressant treatments.

In practice, the study shows that, in the short term, supportive psychotherapy plus antidepressants are at least as effective as more complex psychotherapeutic treatments for people with HIV and depressive symptoms.

Using a mind - body - brain lens informed by Sensorimotor PsychotherapySM, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and psychodynamic psychotherapy, a wide range of treatment modalities are explored through clinical vignettes, case studies, brief experiential exercises, and videotaped excerpts of sessions.