introduction: according to the world health organization (who) report, acute depression disorders are the second largest health problem in the world which can cause disability and imposes huge costs on individuals and societies. this study aims to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of using psychotherapy in patients with depression for prevention of suicide and self harm commi...

objectives: multiple sclerosis is one of the most important and prevalent central nervous system diseases, causing disorders such as depression among affected patients. positive psychotherapy is also a new approach that can be effective in reducing the depression of these people. this study aims to investigate the efficiency of group positive psychotherapy for decreasing the depression among fe...

In psychotherapy, the patient–provider interaction contains the treatment's active ingredients. However, the technology for analyzing the content of this interaction has not fundamentally changed in decades, limiting both the scale and specificity of psychotherapy research. New methods are required to " scale up " to larger evaluation tasks and " drill down " into the raw linguistic data of pat...

In his 1957 Annual Review of Psychology article, Winder defines psychotherapy as an interpersonal relationship characterized by the following attributes (p. 309): (1) at least one of the participants (i.e., therapist) is an expert in human relationships; (2) at least one of the participants (i.e., client) displays intrapersonal or interpersonal adjustment problems; (3) the objective of the rela...

OBJECTIVE While the personal characteristics of users of psychotherapy and/or psychotropic medications have been examined, direct user comparison of these treatment approaches appears to be rare. Our aim is to ascertain extent of receipt of these services, and identify basic distinguishing characteristics of users. METHODS Information on demographics, lifetime and past 12 month use of mental ...

As developers of a psychotherapy for depression, we bring a point of view to the topic of the future of antidepressant psychotherapies. Let us state this view up front and emphasize it reflects that most of our experience has been in the United States. Our guiding principles are: • Psychotherapies, like any treatments, should be evidenced based. Evidence is best derived from randomized controll...

This review article considers implications of psychotherapy research for psychotherapy training. It considers 8 themes that characterize the research literature. The themes involve outcome findings, common factors, empirically supported therapies, patient treatment matches, therapy manuals and practice guidelines, brief therapies, combinations of medication and psychotherapy, and group therapie...

Growing number of evidence indicates that individuals' motivational structure - the patterning of an individual's way of relating to goals - plays an important role in increasing the risk of alcohol use. Adaptive motivational structure which includes pursuit of important, subjectively attainable, alcohol-unrelated goals is inversely related to substance use. The strength of this relationship in...

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