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Principles over Process: Fifty Years a Cognitive Therapist
The most important lesson that I have learned in my half century as a therapist (and therapy researcher) is that principles matter more than processes. I had the great good fortune to arrive in Philadelphia at...
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Initial Severity and Depressive Relapse in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Antidepressant Medications: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis
Baseline severity has emerged as a key predictor of acute response to treatments for depression. The goals of this individual patient data meta-analysis were to compare the relapse prevention effects of acute ...
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Clinical Practice Guidelines: When Efficacy Is Not Enough: An Essay in the Honor of Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott Lilienfeld was an iconoclast and a worthy descendant of his mentor David Lykken who put the “lie” in the term “lie detector” among his many contributions to the science. Like his intellectual predecessor...
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Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEW) Intervention for Mental Health Promotion Among Resettled Bhutanese Adults in Massachusetts
Preventative behavioral interventions aimed at reducing mental problems among refugees are limited. We assessed the effect of a Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEW) intervention on health-promoting behaviors (...
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Cognitive Therapy in the Treatment and Prevention of Depression: A Fifty-Year Retrospective with an Evolutionary Coda
In the 50 years since it was first introduced, cognitive therapy has been shown to be as efficacious as antidepressant medications (on average) in the acute treatment of nonpsychotic depression, although some ...
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Case Formulation in Standard Cognitive Therapy: A Commentary on Chapter “Case Formulation in Standard Cognitive Therapy”
The commentary agrees with the premise that cognitive therapy handles the whole therapeutic process by using case formulation, including both specific cognitive strategies and the nonspecific factors such as t...
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Psychological Mindedness and Alexithymia Predict Symptom Reduction in Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder
Cognitive behavior models present major depressive disorder (MDD) as a failure in emotional processing associated with disrupted metacognitive skills. Self-observation, a metacognitive ability, plays a vital r...
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Open AccessCognitive Therapy or Behavioral Activation for Major Depressive Disorder in Dutch Mental Health Care: Pilot Effectiveness and Process Trial
Few studies have investigated the association between psychotherapeutic approaches and their processes in routine psychological practice. We compared cognitive therapy (CT) and behavioral activation (BA) on th...
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Open AccessHealthy Campus Trial: a multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) fully factorial trial to optimize the smartphone cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app for mental health promotion among university students: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Youth in general and college life in particular are characterized by new educational, vocational, and interpersonal challenges, opportunities, and substantial stress. It is estimated that 30–50% of university ...
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Open AccessCross-sectional networks of depressive symptoms before and after antidepressant medication treatment
Recent reviews have questioned the efficacy of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) above placebo response, and their working mechanisms remain unclear. New approaches to understanding the effects o...
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Open AccessCan integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
The Memory Support Intervention was developed in response to evidence showing that: (1) patient memory for treatment is poor, (2) poor memory for treatment is associated with poorer adherence and poorer outcom...
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Open AccessGuided Act and Feel Indonesia (GAF-ID) – Internet-based behavioral activation intervention for depression in Indonesia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Depression is a leading cause of disease burden across the world. However, in low-middle income countries (LMICs), access to mental health services is severely limited because of the insufficient number of men...
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Open AccessFrequency and change mechanisms of psychotherapy among depressed patients: study protocol for a multicenter randomized trial comparing twice-weekly versus once-weekly sessions of CBT and IPT
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal therapy (IPT) are among the most well established therapies for the treatment of depression. However, some major questions remain unanswered. First, it is u...
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Interpersonal Self-Support, Venting Co** and Post - Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Adolescent Earthquake Survivors
Interpersonal self-support is a personality factor that is believed in China to protect against distress. This study explored the relation among interpersonal self-support, venting co**, and posttraumatic st...
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The Relation of Self-Supporting Personality, Big Five Personality and Depression
Self-supporting personality (SSP) is an indigenous Chinese personality concept. It is assumed to be a protective personality factor with regard to depression. In the present study, self-supporting personality ...
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Open AccessThe effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of lay counsellor-delivered psychological treatments for harmful and dependent drinking and moderate to severe depression in primary care in India: PREMIUM study protocol for randomized controlled trials
The leading mental health causes of the global burden of disease are depression in women and alcohol use disorders in men. A major hurdle to the implementation of evidence-based psychological treatments in pri...
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Open AccessCost and outcome of behavioural activation versus cognitive behaviour therapy for depression (COBRA): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for depression. However, CBT is a complex therapy that requires highly trained and qualified practitioners, and its scalability is therefore limited ...
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Open AccessEffectiveness, relapse prevention and mechanisms of change of cognitive therapy vs. interpersonal therapy for depression: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Major depression is a common mental disorder that substantially impairs quality of life and has high societal costs. Although psychotherapies have proven to be effective antidepressant treatments, initial resp...
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Open AccessDisrupting the rhythm of depression: design and protocol of a randomized controlled trial on preventing relapse using brief cognitive therapy with or without antidepressants
Maintenance treatment with antidepressants is the leading strategy to prevent relapse and recurrence in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD) who have responded to acute treatment with antide...
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Open AccessThe Effects of Rumination and Depressive Symptoms on the Prediction of Negative Attributional Style Among College Students
Research on cognitive vulnerability to depression has identified negative cognitive style and rumination as distinct risk factors for depression but how rumination would influence negative cognitive style rema...
