BACKGROUND This randomized clinical trial compared 16-week interventions with interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, supportive psychotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy with imipramine for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients with depressive symptoms. METHODS Subjects (N = 101; 85 male, 16 female) with known HIV seropositivity for at least 6 months were ...

Our research group has - during the past 15 years - developed and tested internet interventions for more than 20 separate conditions totaling in close to 50 published randomized controlled trials. The studies cover a wide range of diagnoses including depression, social anxiety, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and pathological gambling. The treatments have mostly been based on cogn...

Dr. Robert Trestman, at the Carilion Clinic and Virginia Tech School of Medicine, has co-developed START NOW, a successful group psychotherapy intervention specifically targeting mental health issues in prisoners. It combines elements cognitive behavioral therapy to form skills-based learning. Furthermore, NOW is easily accessible, cost-effective, designed for use settings with limited resource...

The psychotherapeutic program included targeted use of cognitive-behavioral therapy, personality-oriented biosuggestion, non-directive Rogerian psychotherapy, art biofeedback, trauma-focused EMDR. PTSD coping strategies was used for the military Pucelik Consulting Group. intervention aimed at affective reappraisal traumatic experience; correction behavioral patterns associated with combat stres...

The concept of cognitive distortion was created by A. T. Beck and it is one of the key-concepts of cognitive psychotherapy. In the 80s of the twentieth century, researchers began to use it in studies of sexual offending, but with reference to the social learning theory rather than to the theory of cognitive psychotherapy. Subsequent authors continued the use of this term in the determinants of ...