Are all psychotherapies equally effective for the treament of depression? Or do cognitive behavioral techniques clearly rise above the pack, as implied by the amount of media coverage they receive?
Many parents are understandably reluctant to begin their children on psychiatric medication, and indeed, in many cases this is inappropriate as a first step.
Every child has a family. Sometimes families are difficult and sometimes they are nontraditional. But children live in families and most often their families are their greatest resources and the medium by which children can improve.
Patients who don’t respond well to medication for depression are often referred for psychotherapy. But there has been little evidence that this actually works. A recent trial attempted to assess whether this method could help patients.
In order to test whether phone therapy is helpful as an adjunct to antidepressant medication, researchers enrolled 600 depressed outpatients in a randomized trial.
Most treatment guidelines recommend cognitive behavioral therapy as first-line psychotherapy for anxiety disorders. In this article, Dr. Glen Spielmans will give you a brief primer of CBT techniques for panic disorder, social phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, as well as review whether, for these conditions, CBT is indeed superior to other forms of therapy.
Over the past several months, we have reviewed several articles that have endorsed cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of depression. In some cases, CBT has appeared even more effective than antidepressants, at least for the long-term prevention of relapse. But now, along comes a paper that appears to show that CBT isn’t particularly effective after all.
A variety of psychotherapy techniques work well for eating disorders, particularly for bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. This article gives a brief summary of the evidence from controlled clinical trials.
In a nationally representative sample of office-based psychiatrists, the percentage of patient visits involving at least 30 minutes of psychotherapy dropped from 44% in 1996-1997 to 29% in 2004-2005.