Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Severe Mental Disorders

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe mental disorders.

O ver 4 decades, ago Aaron T Beck presented the basic theoretical and treatment approach of cognitivebehavioural therapy (CBT). Since then, hundreds of randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) have demonstrated the efficacy of CBT for the broad range of psychiatric conditions, including severe mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), substan...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe mental disorders: back to the future?

Like recent medication studies, it appears that when cognitive-behavioural therapy is tested in pragmatic effectiveness trials involving routine clinical populations it does not fare as well as in efficacy trials. Given the multitude of factors that can ;muddy the waters' in clinical trials, how do we best make sense of the findings?

Multistep cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders

Book details Riccardo Dalle Grave, Jason Aronson, The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group Inc., Maryland, 2013, vii + 341 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7657-0927-1. In the last 10 years, a new form of cognitive behavioural therapy for eating disorders, called Enhanced Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT-E) has been developed and tested by Christopher Fairburn and his colleagues at Oxford University. CBT-E d...

Actualising Therapy 2.0: Enhancing Engagement with Computerised Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Common Mental Health Disorders

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe and recurrent bipolar disorders: randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Efficacy trials suggest that structured psychological therapies may significantly reduce recurrence rates of major mood episodes in individuals with bipolar disorders. AIMS To compare the effectiveness of treatment as usual with an additional 22 sessions of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). METHOD We undertook a multicentre, pragmatic, randomised controlled treatment trial (n=...