BACKGROUND The effects of antidepressants for treating depressive disorders have been overestimated because of selective publication of positive trials. Reanalyses that include unpublished trials have yielded reduced effect sizes. This in turn has led to claims that antidepressants have clinically insignificant advantages over placebo and that psychotherapy is therefore a better alternative. To...

Most meta-analyses have concluded that psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy yield roughly similar efficacy in the short-term treatment of depression, with psychotherapy showing some advantage at long-term follow-up. However, a recent meta-analysis found that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors medications were superior to psychotherapy in the short-term treatment of depression. To incorporate ...

BACKGROUND Recommendations on current clinical guidelines are informed by limited economic evidence. AIMS A formal economic evaluation of three modalities of psychotherapy for patients with cluster B personality disorders. METHOD A probabilistic decision-analytic model to assess the cost-effectiveness of out-patient, day hospital and in-patient psychotherapy over 5 years in terms of cost pe...

OBJECTIVE Several psychotherapies have been found to be effective in the treatment of depression among adults. However, little is known about whether effectiveness differs by racial-ethnic minority group. The authors conducted a meta-analysis to assess the relative effects of psychotherapy for persons from racial-ethnic minority groups, by examining whether a sample's racial-ethnic minority pro...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a 4-week group psychotherapy on the efficacy of physiotherapy in patients rehabilitated in a nursing home (NH). MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was performed on 28 women, aged 77.1 (±5.6) years. Thirty-six percent were rehabilitated due to orthopaedic injuries, 36% had undergone a stroke, 28% suffered from chronic diseases of old age. ...

This qualitative research study uses Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) (Smith, Flowers & Larkin, 2009; Smith Nizza, 2022) to explore how Transactional Psychotherapy can be used effectively with clients who are neurodivergent. It aimed the lived experiences of participants, all whom were neurodivergent and received psychotherapy as adults but undiagnosed in childhood. Participan...

perhaps before establishing the psychology and counseling organization of iran by the parliament in 2003, the biggest threat to this discipline was the practice of unprofessional people. on this basis, the biggest opportunity for this discipline was establishing this organization by the parliament as the supreme legislative body in the country. on 14/11/2012 counseling centers regulation was in...