Objective: To observe the effectiveness of acupuncture as an adjunct therapy to solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) in reducing anxiety levels. Method: Ten patients diagnosed of generalized anxiety dis order (GAD) by a licensed therapist were treated with acupuncture for six weeks. Each participant completed a generalized anxiety disorder 7 (GAD 7) survey before the treatment, once a week the...

CONTEXT Previous studies have found that few chronically depressed patients remit with antidepressant medications alone. OBJECTIVE To determine the role of adjunctive psychotherapy in the treatment of chronically depressed patients with less than complete response to an initial medication trial. DESIGN This trial compared 12 weeks of (1) continued pharmacotherapy and augmentation with cogni...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the rate of response to the combination of nortriptyline and interpersonal psychotherapy for acute and continuation treatment of elderly patients with recurrent major depression. METHOD The subjects were 73 elderly patients, 61 of whom completed treatment. Nortriptyline steady-state blood levels were maintained at 80-120 ng/ml, and interpersonal psychotherapy wa...

This paper discusses the importance of corporal and implicit dimension experience for theory practice Gestalt-Therapy psychotherapy. We believe in a model clinical that leans on this affective dimension. start with brief exploration notion self as process contact, emphasizing pre-contact id function moment common we share world other. As understand it, is predominantly sensory, based corporeali...

Sex is a part of humane life as natural drive to seek pleasure. The problems related sex can affect the mental and social person on many levels. Genophobia specific phobia in which fears sexual intercourse. It usually caused by traumatic experience sex. may feel horrified or anxious when expose trigger that makes vulnerable. not very common although cases be found. treatment modality involves p...

BACKGROUND Mood and anxiety disorders are characterized by a high and increasing prevalence, they cause a lot of costs and human suffering and there are many treatment options with differing costs. The benefits of identifying the treatments with the most favourable cost-effectiveness ratios can be substantial. However, the number of randomized trials where psychological treatments are compared ...

This paper provides a current review of existing evidence-based treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a description of psychopharmacologic options, prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive processing therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, especially as they pertain to military populations. It further offers a brief summary of promising treatments with a dev...

This article, therefore, provides a brief description of the scale, as well as an assessment of its effectiveness. Perhaps most important, the article analyzes the potential impact of this scale on both offender assessment and treatment. Offender attitudes and treatment Although there have been several comprehensive reviews of the general factors that influence psychotherapy outcomes,(4) few st...