Resumen: Los tratamientos principales aplicados en el ámbito de las adicciones son la farmacoterapia y las terapias psicológicas, siendo escasas las intervenciones en las que se combinan estos dos tipos de terapias. El objetivo de este estudio es revisar y mostrar un resumen de los resultados de las principales investigaciones, que han evaluado la efectividad de la intervención combinada de est...

This study concerns the structure and determinants of lay beliefs about psychotherapy in general and speciŽ cally the effectiveness of various therapies for four different disorders. Two hundred and seventeen participants completed a two-part questionnaire. The Ž rst part was a replication of Furnham and Wardley’s (1990) ‘Attitudes to and beliefs about psychotherapy’ questionnaire, while the se...

Psychological interventions have been designed and implemented effectively in a wide range of medical conditions, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). The psychological treatments for IBS and IBD with the strongest evidence base include: cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, and mindfulness-based therapies. The evidence for each of these therapies is...

Many clients highly value religious and spiritual (R/S) commitments, and many psychotherapists have accommodated secular treatments to R/S perspectives. We meta-analyzed 51 samples from 46 studies (N = 3,290) that examined the outcomes of religious accommodative therapies and nonreligious spirituality therapies. Comparisons on psychological and spiritual outcomes were made to a control conditio...

The management of depression in the primary care setting should ideally take a biological, psychological, and sociological approach. Antidepressants are the most commonly used biological agents in the treatment of depression. Psychological therapies and psychosocial interventions improve the outcome of treatment when combined with pharmacotherapy. Clinical depression is treatable and thus effor...