Virtual reality is widely used in psychotherapy in recent years and has got good effects. This paper introduces current situation of virtual reality applications in psychotherapy, such as anxiety disorder, autism, brain injury and mentally retarded. We do analysis about the existing constraints and weakness and summarize the characters and prospect of virtual reality as an effective tool for as...

In this study, Department of Veterans Affairs Fiscal Year 2006 national workload data are analyzed to determine use and intensity of outpatient individual and group psychotherapy and, using multivariate analysis, to identify sociodemographic and diagnostic correlates. Results show that among veterans receiving specialty mental health services (n=934,832), average visits numbered 7.9, 64.7% rece...

Successful management of patient behaviors that interfere with the process of psychotherapy is essential to treating patients with borderline personality disorder. Provocative patient behaviors that induce a strong negative reaction from the therapist must be attenuated. Strategies for doing so used in four different treatment paradigms--Kernberg's expressive psychotherapy, Linehan's dialectica...

The topics of spirituality and psychotherapy have often been controversial in the literature on schizophrenia treatment. However, current research indicates many potential benefits of integrating issues of religion and spirituality into psychotherapy for individuals with schizophrenia. In this paper, implications are presented for incorporating spiritual and religious issues in psychotherapy fo...

Dr. Miles Neale © copyright 2012 Buddhist psychotherapy, which has been adopted in the last several decades, is a novel approach to the clinical practice of mental health. It combines aspects of conventional psychotherapy with traditional Buddhist psychological theory and practice. Because there are several sub-schools of psychotherapy and Buddhism from which to integrate, there currently is n...

Although the role and relative prominence of psychotherapy in the treatment of schizophrenia has fluctuated over time, an analysis of the history of psychotherapy for schizophrenia, focusing on findings from the recovery movement, reveals recent trends including the emergence of the development of integrative psychotherapy approaches. The authors suggest that the recovery movement has revealed ...

The “Case of Matilde” provides us with an important example of how the in-depth study of a single psychotherapy case can shed light on concepts that lie at the very heart of the psychotherapy debate. The therapeutic relationship, patient defense mechanisms, and therapeutic technique are foundational elements of psychodynamic psychotherapy, understanding their interaction will help guide researc...

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Studys Psychotherapy in Troubling Time Bert Olivier* Department of Philosophy, South Africa *Corresponding author: Olivier, Submission: March 18, 2022Published: 28, 2022 DOI: 10.31031/PPRS.2022.05.000615 ISSN 2639-0612Volume5 Issue3

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants compared to psychotherapy as single approaches for the treatment of bulimia nervosa. METHOD Dichotomous outcomes were analysed by calculating relative risks and continuous outcomes by calculating effect sizes. The number needed to treat (or harm) was calculated. Methodological quality of trials and heterogeneity in the resu...