The heterogeneous field of Body-Oriented Psychotherapy (BOP) provides a range of unique contributions for the treatment of mental disorders. Practice based clinical evidence and a few empirical studies point towards good efficacy of these non-verbal intervention strategies. This is particularly relevant for those disorders with body image aberration and other body-related psychopathology, but a...

NATHAN MASCARO is in the internship year of Texas A&M’s doctoral program in clinical psychology. He was interning at Tulane University’s Health Sciences Center until Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and he currently interns at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. His research interest is the assessment of existential personality variables, the relationship of these variables to...

This commentary on the integrative case study of Ms. Q by Barbara Ingram (2009) aims to discuss relevant theoretical, clinical, research, and training issues in the development and practice of integrative/eclectic psychotherapy models. It begins with a description of the contributions and position of Ingram’s model within the current psychotherapy integration literature. It then examines issues...

OBJECTIVE Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most effective treatments for severe major depressive disorder. However, after acute-phase treatment and initial remission, relapse rates are significant. Strategies to prolong remission include continuation phase ECT, pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, or their combinations. This systematic review synthesizes extant data regarding the combin...

Most everyday child and adolescent psychotherapy does not follow manuals that document the procedures. Consequently, usual clinical care has remained poorly understood and rarely studied. The Therapy Process Observational Coding System for Child Psychotherapy-Strategies scale (TPOCS-S) is an observational measure of youth psychotherapy procedures designed to support the study of usual clinical ...

ôbjective: this study explored the therapeutic outcomes of psychodynamic psychotherapy for major depressive disorder (mdd) in comparison with pharmacotherapy. methods: the focus of psychodynamic psychotherapy was on the superego pathology and its developmental backgrounds, while pharmacotherapy was done using ssrïs. â sample of 50 mdd patients was randomly selected by clinical interview using d...

This paper illustrates the application of Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Theory of Nursing to group psychotherapy. The phases of the nurse-patient relationship, including orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution, are described as they relate to group psychotherapy, and clinical examples are presented. The clinical examples also demonstrate the patient's movement in group thera...

M e t h o d s Design: Randomized, 2 × 2 factorial design, placebo-controlled trial. Allocation: {Concealed}†.* Blinding: Blinded (clinicians, patients, and outcome assessors).* Clinicians and patients were not blinded to the psychotherapy intervention. Follow-up period: 2 years. Setting: Specialized university-based clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Patients: 116 patients ≥ 70 years of a...

While double-blinding is a crucial aspect of study design in an interventional clinical trial of medication for a disorder with subjective endpoints such as major depressive disorder, psychotherapy clinical trials, particularly cognitive-behavioral therapy trials, cannot be double-blinded. This paper highlights the evidence-based medicine problem of double-blinding in the outcome research of a ...