Since the late 1980s there has been tremendous progress in the nonpharmacological treatment of anxiety disorders. Cognitive-behavioral therapies, which reflect a recent integration of the cognitive theories and methods associated with Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, and David Clark, and the behavioral theories and methods of B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov, currently have the greatest degree of empirica...

Introduction: Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is one of the crucial disorders in childhood and adolescence which externalizing spectrum disorders. Aim: The purpose this study was to investigate effectiveness cognitive-behavioral therapy hypnotherapy on improving emotional regulation communication skills adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder. Method: This research has been executed ...

The medical director of a child guidance center is starting a new treatment program. Following intense media coverage of adverse events associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, depressed teens and their families are refusing to accept pharmacotherapy. The director has paid for three social work therapists to attend a cognitivebehavioral therapy (CBT) workshop, and these clinicia...

Two divergent areas of study have focused on the experiences of grief, i.e., bereavement, and on trauma and its aftermath. The grief literature has its foundations in psychodynamic and relational theories, and thus treatment modalities have focused on resolving relationship issues through reminiscence and developing a new sense of the relationship and of the self, independent of the lost loved ...

Background: Questions remain regarding the sustainment of evidence-based practices following implementation. The present study examined the sustainment of community clinicians’ implementation (i.e., penetration) of cognitive-behavioral therapy, attitudes toward evidence-based practices, and knowledge of cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth anxiety two years following training and consultation...

Major depression is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. Although various treatment approaches exist, including pharmacological (eg, antidepressant agents), psychotherapeutic (eg, cognitivebehavioral therapy), and neuromodulatory (eg, electroconvulsive therapy [ECT]), a substantial number of patients do not adequately bene!t from or cannot tolerate these existing options. This has led t...

The interest on hypnosis as an area of research, has burgeoned in the last decades at a level only comparable to that at the end of the last Century. Only lack of specific knowledge can bring about the rejection of a series of procedures that are proving to be of considerable importance as adjuncts to psychological treatments, particularly cognitive-behavioral ones (Lazarus, 1973; Kirsch, Montg...

Anosognosia is often found in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but its relationship with cognitivebehavioral changes is not well established. Objective To verify if anosognosia is related to cognitive-behavioral disturbances, and to regional brain dysfunction as evaluated by neuroimaging. Methods We included AD patients with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores of 12 through 24, and Clinica...

Single subject research (SSR) can complement findings from aggregated group data and contribute uniquely toward the goal of generating and generalizing scientific knowledge in psychology. The present study illustrates these assertions with psychotherapy case formulation research. In earlier work my team and I identified and operationalized multiple dimensions of quality in case formulations. Th...

Introduction. Social skills are considered an influential factor in the adaptation of individuals and their enjoyment mental health, lack these negatively affects individual’s various performances: professional, academic, family, societal, which may lead to isolation, introversion a feeling inferiority inferiority. Cognitivebehavioral therapy contributes developing communication skills, trainin...