conclusions categorization of trials based on their classification scheme to investigate the efficacy of classification-based physical therapy could reduce the heterogeneity of trials and allow researchers to understand the contradictory results in this context. results a total of 12 rcts were identified and categorized into four classification schemes. some evidence supporting classification-s...

Since the summer of 2003, several studies have been conducted to quantify the benefits of art therapy withprison inmates. These studiesdemonstratedamarked improvement inmood, behavior, andproblemsolving [Gussak, D. (2007). The effectiveness of art therapy in reducing depression in prison populations. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 5(4), 444–460; Gussak, D...

Published concurrently with this editorial are two high-quality, thoughtprovoking studies from different research domains, each of which advances yet complicates our understanding of clinical anxiety disorders. One is a multisite randomized controlled trial of psychotherapies for social anxiety disorder (1), the other a meta-analysis of the separation anxiety hypothesis of panic disorder (2). E...

Objective: Framed in the patients' engagement perspective, the current study aims to determine the effects of group music therapy in addition to drug care in comparison with drug care in addition to other non-expressive group activities in the treatment of psychiatric outpatients. Method: Participants (n = 27) with ICD-10 diagnoses of F20 (schizophrenia), F25 (schizoaffective disorders), F31 (b...