Since the summer of 2003, several studies have been conducted to quantify the benefits of art therapy withprison inmates. These studiesdemonstratedamarked improvement inmood, behavior, andproblemsolving [Gussak, D. (2007). The effectiveness of art therapy in reducing depression in prison populations. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 5(4), 444–460; Gussak, D...

Children who have experienced complex trauma in early life often fail to develop robust ego functions, such as frustration tolerance and emotion regulation capacities. Often, impairments these capacities persistently characterise children’s social emotional development and, such, prove extremely challenging the adults care for them. This paper aims illustrate different ways which therapists wor...

The first stage is what most people picture when they think of psychotherapy and is what is usually taught in psychotherapy training programs, including most clinical psychology programs. It has to do with the healing or resolution of symptoms or presenting complaints. In this stage the psychotherapist is regarded as an expert who applies techniques or procedures to bring about the desired resu...

Adherence monitoring, a technology to specify research psychotherapies, was used in the NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program (TDCRP). The authors present adherence data from a similar randomized treatment trial of 56 depressed HIV-positive patients, comparing 16-week interventions with cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, and supportive psychotherapy...

This study conducted a systematic review to assess the quality of existing literature on psychological treatments for irritable bowel syndrome and to quantify the evidence for their efficacy. Three independent reviewers (two from England, one from the United States) coded the quality of 32 studies, 17 of which provided data suitable for meta-analysis. Meta-analysis of efficacy data (50% reducti...

Daniel Hack Tuke first used the word 'psychotherapeutics' in 1872 (Ellenberger, 1970, p. 765). He defined the term psychotherapy in his dictionary (Tuke, 1892), published twenty years later, as 'treatment of disease by the influence of the mind on the body'. Advances in the field of the behavioural sciences and other events in the twentieth century have led to changes in the meanings of psychot...

Early identification and treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD) is critical to prevent development of a chronic course of symptoms, persistent functional impairment, and progressive psychiatric comorbidity. A small but growing literature supports the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders, including SAD, in adolescence. The present randomized controlled tria...

Sleep disorders are very prevalent in the general population and are associated with significant medical, psychological, and social disturbances. Insomnia is the most common. When chronic, it usually reflects psychological/behavioral disturbances. Most insomniacs can be evaluated in an office setting, and a multidimensional approach is recommended, including sleep hygiene measures, psychotherap...

Heart transplantation has become an established procedure for the treatment of terminal heart failure. However, due to a shortage of donor organs, the waiting period for a donor organ is increasing. Cross-sectional and retrospective studies have indicated that there is tremendous psychological distress during this waiting period. The aim of this study was to assess this phase systematically and...