Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland Department of Psychology, Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Germany Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, T...

IMPORTANCE There is debate about the effectiveness of psychiatric treatments and whether pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy should be primarily used. OBJECTIVES To perform a systematic overview on the efficacy of pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies for major psychiatric disorders and to compare the quality of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy trials. EVIDENCE REVIEW We searched MEDLINE, EMB...

PURPOSE Patients with chronic depression (CD) by definition respond less well to standard forms of psychotherapy and are more likely to be high utilizers of psychiatric resources. Therefore, the aim of this guidance paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of current psychotherapy for CD. The evidence of efficacy is critically reviewed and recommendations for clinical applications and resea...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To define the effects of group psychotherapy in women with a history of sexual abuse, to find possible predictors for dropout and treatment outcome rates and to find which therapeutic factors of group psychotherapy are perceived by group members to be most helpful. BACKGROUND Sexual abuse of women is a global concern and causes many psychiatric and psychological sequelae. ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between rurality and depression care. METHODS Data were extracted for 10,319 individuals with self-reported depression in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Pharmacotherapy was defined as an antidepressant prescription fill, and minimally adequate pharmacotherapy was defined as receipt of at least 4 antidepressant fills. Psychotherapy was defined as an o...

What are the Risks and Side Effects to Psychotherapy? – Development of an Inventory for the Assessment of Negative Effects of Psychotherapy (INEP) Background: Potential negative effects of psychotherapeutic treatment have been little studied systematically to date. The current report describes the development of a self-report instrument for assessing negative effects of psychotherapy. Patients ...

abstract background: the emotional bond that a mother feels towards her infant is critical to their social, emotional, and cognitive development. this concept has a major influence on an infant’s future health, and growth, so the assessment of parental-fetal attachment and related factors is of great importance. this study aimed to examine the effect of psychological intervention on attachment ...

the objective of this session is to identify that how films, movies and tv series can affect on anxiety level of the audiences. in this session, actors, directors, and psychologists are going to discuss about the role of tv series, films and their contents on decreasing or increasing of anxiety and the importance of “identification” between audiences and actors or actresses.

The efficacy of individual psychotherapy for acute schizophrenics has been the source of controversy for many decades. Discussion of the scientific issues, such as design, methodology, and assessment, has been clouded by strong ideological conflicts. The relative value of drugs and psychotherapy for schizophrenics has been the subject of tension and dispute between various psychiatric schools--...