Advancing psychotherapy and evidence-based psychological interventions

Computer- and Internet-Based Psychotherapy Interventions

Published by Blackwell Publishing Inc. Abstract Computers and Internetbased programs have great potential to make psychological assessment and treatment more cost-effective. Computer-assisted therapy appears to be as effective as face-to-face treatment for treating anxiety disorders and depression. Internet support groups also may be effective and have advantages over face-to-face therapy. Howe...

Empirically supported psychological interventions: controversies and evidence.

Efforts to increase the practice of evidence-based psychotherapy in the United States have led to the formation of task forces to define, identify, and disseminate information about empirically supported psychological interventions. The work of several such task forces and other groups reviewing empirically supported treatments (ESTs) in the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere is summa...

Millitary Psychotherapy and Psychological Wounds of War

SUMMARY After a short reference to Iran-Iraq war as a motivating factor for the present study, the issues of battle stress and psychological wounds of war ar discuused. Reactions of the world armies 10 psychological breakdown of soldiers, military psychotherapy, therapy in combat zone and its developmental process through Civil war, Crimean war, first and Second world wars, Korean and Vietnam ...

Innovative Interventions in Psychotherapy

Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy

In the early 1900s, Japanese psychiatrist Shōma Morita, MD (1874-1938) developed a sequential approach to therapy that emerged from his theory of consciousness.[1] Outside psychoanalytic studies, Morita’s portrayal of consciousness in the field of psychological medicine remains incomparable.[2] In fact, Morita refined his therapeutic methods through extensive case study with as much rigour as h...