BACKGROUND Since the mid-1970s, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies (STPP) for a broad range of psychological and somatic disorders have been developed and studied. Early published meta-analyses of STPP, using different methods and samples, have yielded conflicting results, although some meta-analyses have consistently supported an empirical basis for STPP. This is an update of a review th...

The effects of psychotherapies for depression have been examined in several hundreds randomized trials, but no recent network meta-analysis (NMA) has integrated the results these studies. We conducted an NMA trials comparing cognitive behavioural, interpersonal, psychodynamic, problem-solving, behavioural activation, life-review and “third wave” therapies non-directive supportive counseling wit...

Depression in children and adolescents is considerably undertreated, and the school may be a good setting for identifying and treating depression. We conducted a meta-analysis of studies in which students were screened for depression, and those with depressive symptoms were treated with a psychological intervention. Only randomised controlled trials were included. Eight studies met the inclusio...

BACKGROUND The unprecedented rates of global migration present unique challenges to mental health services in migrant receiving countries to provide efficacious and culturally salient treatment for mental health conditions including depression. This review aimed to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of depression interventions specifically directed towards first-generation immigrant popula...

Meditation has a long tradition with substantial implications for many psychotherapies. It has been postulated that meditation may cultivate therapeutic processes similar to various psychotherapies. A previous study used joint factor analysis to identify five common factors of items of scales purported to capture psychological states cultivated by meditation, focusing, and cognitive behavioral ...

BACKGROUND Communication may be an influential determinant of inequality of access to, engagement with and benefit from psychiatric services. AIMS To review the evidence on interventions designed to improve therapeutic communications between Black and minority ethnic patients and clinicians who provide care in psychiatric services. METHOD Systematic review and evidence synthesis (PROSPERO r...

Reflective-functioning (RF) is the ability to recognize the existence and nature of mental processes taking place in the self and in others (e.g., intentions and wishes). RF was investigated here as a patient variable during the process in two studies of brief psychotherapy. The first study investigated cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in the TDCRP sample...

OBJECTIVE Psychotherapy research may suffer from factors such as a researcher's own therapy allegiance. The aim of this study was to evaluate if researcher allegiance (RA) was reported in meta-analyses and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of psychotherapeutic treatments. DESIGN Systematic approach using meta-analyses of different types of psychotherapies. DATA SOURCES Medline, PsycINFO a...