British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for depression in people with a somatic disease: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

BACKGROUND Meta-analyses on psychological treatment for depression in individuals with a somatic disease are limited to specific underlying somatic diseases, thereby neglecting the generalisability of the interventions. AIMS To examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression in people with a diversity of somatic diseases. METHOD Meta-analysis of randomised co...

Efficacy of cognitive-behavioural therapy and other psychological treatments for adult depression: meta-analytic study of publication bias.

BACKGROUND It is not clear whether the effects of cognitive-behavioural therapy and other psychotherapies have been overestimated because of publication bias. AIMS To examine indicators of publication bias in randomised controlled trials of psychotherapy for adult depression. METHOD We examined effect sizes of 117 trials with 175 comparisons between psychotherapy and control conditions. As ...

Editorial: New Generation of Psychotherapies Inspired by Cognitive Neuroscience Development: Emergence of Neurocognitive Therapies

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...

جهانی سازی و درمانهای ادارکی رفتاری

There is little doubt that the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBTs) have become one of the primary approaches to mental health in the world. There is a large database that supports the efficacy of the CBTs for a range of disorders [1], and some authors have gone so far to declare the CBTs the “gold standard” for specific disorders [2]. In addition, while many of the CBT models were...