PURPOSE Psychological interventions in the treatment of epilepsy have been developed and evaluated for many years but the amount of research has hardly made an impact on how epilepsy is treated. The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a psychological treatment program consisting of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) together with some behavioral seizure control technology sho...

BACKGROUND Pain is often poorly controlled in cancer patients. Chronic pain affects adult patients at all stages of cancer management. Optimal pain management may require attention to psychosocial variables and the inclusion of nonpharmacological techniques. METHODS Three nonpharmacological strategies that are effective in reducing pain caused by cancer--patient psycho-education, supportive p...

This paper describes a specific psychoanalytic psychotherapy for patients with severe personality disorders, its technical approach and specific research projects establishing empirical evidence supporting its efficacy. This treatment derives from the findings of the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research project, and applies a model of contemporary psychoanalytic object relations theory a...

The treatment of torture survivors from diverse cultures has been a difficult task involving issues of loss, massive trauma, cultural style, and adjusting to a new country. Research on treatment outcomes has shown inconsistent results. This report presents a prospective one year treatment outcome of 22 severely tortured patients from Ethiopia, Somalia, Iran and Afghanistan. Treatment was provid...

It is often assumed that patients with personality disorders have worse compliance in psychotherapy (i.e., attend fewer sessions) than patients without personality disorders. Such an assumption can have negative consequences for the treatment of patients with personality disorders. It also denies the presence of variability in session attendance among patients with personality disorders. Resear...

Title of Document: CLIENT ATTACHMENT AS A PREDICTOR OF THERAPIST INTERVENTIONS, THE WORKING ALLIANCE, AND THE REAL RELATIONSHIP IN THE INITIAL, MIDDLE, AND FINAL PHASES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY John Lawrence Jackson, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., Department of Psychology This study investigated client attachment style as a predictor of (a) therapist interventio...