A cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was developed to address its high prevalence in persons with severe mental illness receiving treatment at community mental health centers. CBT was compared with treatment as usual (TAU) in a randomized controlled trial with 108 clients with PTSD and either major mood disorder (85%) or schizophrenia or schizoaf...

In this work, the effect of mixing temperature (Tmix) on the mechanical, rheological, and morphological properties of rubber/cyclic butylene terephthalate (CBT) oligomer compounds was studied. Apolar (styrene butadiene rubber, SBR) and polar (acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, NBR) rubbers were modified by CBT (20 phr) for reinforcement and viscosity reduction. The mechanical properties were deter...

BACKGROUND Exposure-based cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) delivered via the internet has been shown to be effective for severe health anxiety (hypochondriasis) but has not been compared with an active, effective and credible psychological treatment, such as behavioural stress management (BSM). AIMS To investigate two internet-delivered treatments - exposure-based CBT v. BSM - for severe h...

Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental health difficulties experienced by youth. A well-established literature has identified cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) as the gold-standard psychosocial treatment for youth anxiety disorders. Access to CBT in community clinics is limited, but a potential venue for the provision of CBT for child anxiety disorders is the school setting. The p...

Depression is a significant problem in patients with heart failure. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been proposed as a potential non-pharmacological treatment for depression in patients with heart failure. The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence for the use of CBT in treating depression and depressive symptoms in patients with cardiovascular illness. In six of the ten studi...

the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) and eye movement desensiti­zation and reprocessing (emdr) in reducing ptsd symptoms severity among iranian children 20 months after the 2008 qeshm earthquake. this study follows an experimental design with randomized pre-test post-test to control the internal and external validity of the study. in this st...

This article explores and discusses community-based tourism (CBT) proposes a model intended to be exemplary for CBT cases throughout most of the world’s emerging countries. Further, this paper aims at establishing connection between competitiveness local development, calling therefore proposed C-CBT. The authors try establish motivations develop type tourism, as well drawbacks, grouping them in...

Objectives: Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is the first line treatment insomnia. However, many patients remain with sleep disturbances even after undergoing CBT-I, and those short durations have shown fewer gains. Acceptance commitment (ACT) one of third wave therapies, it useful in helping get flexibility mind. Therefore, we incorporated its components into came up an advanc...

BACKGROUND Rapid advances in information technology and telecommunications have resulted in a dramatic increase in the use of mobile devices and the internet to enhance and facilitate access to treatment. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is an empirically based treatment that is well suited for enhancement by new technologies, particularly with youth. To facilitate the dissemination of this evi...

BACKGROUND The feasibility of cord blood transplantation (CBT) in adults is limited by the relatively low number of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells contained in one single CB unit. The infusion of two CB units from different partially HLA-matched donors (double CBT) is frequently performed in patients who lack a sufficiently rich single CB unit. METHODS We compared CBT outcomes in patient...