New Psychotherapies for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Necessary Innovation or Waste of Resources?

New psychotherapies for mood and anxiety disorders: necessary innovation or waste of resources?

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New psychotherapies for mood and anxiety disorders.

OBJECTIVE To discuss psychotherapies for depression and anxiety that have emerged in recent years and to evaluate their current level of empirical support. METHOD An electronic and a manual literature search of psychotherapies for mood and anxiety disorders were conducted. RESULTS Five new therapies for mood disorders and 3 interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder with co-occurring s...

New therapeutic options for anxiety and mood disorders.

Comorbidity of mood and anxiety disorders.

This article reviews data on the prevalence of panic, social phobia, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder, and research documenting the comorbidity of these disorders with major depression (MDD). These anxiety disorders are frequently comorbid with MDD, and 50-60% of individuals with MDD report a lifetime history of one or more of these anxiety disorders. The anxiety disorders...

Comorbidity of anxiety and unipolar mood disorders.

Research on relationships between anxiety and depression has proceeded at a rapid pace since the 1980s. The similarities and differences between these two conditions, as well as many of the important features of the comorbidity of these disorders, are well understood. The genotypic structure of anxiety and depression is also fairly well documented. Generalized anxiety and major depression share...