OBJECTIVE To compile, review, and comment upon the application of psychotherapy to the treatment of psychiatric disorders first appearing in childhood and adolescence. METHOD Representative research papers published over the past 4 decades on the subject of psychotherapy of children and adolescents were compiled. Selection for inclusion in this review was based upon salience to the subject of...

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 patient...

In the middle of the 20th century, Hans Eysenck reviewed studies of psychotherapy, which consisted primarily of psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and eclectic treatments, and concluded that psychotherapy (as opposed to behavior therapy) was not effective and was possibly harmful. In the inaugural article in Psychotherapy, Hans Strupp challenged Eysenck's conclusions and discussed how psychotherapy...

BACKGROUND Insufficient evidence exists for a viable choice between long- and short-term psychotherapies in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The present trial compares the effectiveness of one long-term therapy and two short-term therapies in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. METHOD In the Helsinki Psychotherapy Study, 326 out-patients with mood (84.7%) or anxiety disorder (...

This study aims to determine the effect of religious accommodation on psychotherapy in anxiety and depression disorders. review systematically examines clinical trials integration religion for treating patients with or anxiety. The results studies shown that using alternatives effective as other types psychotherapy. Integrating into has a variety results. But some can support mental illness, pr...

There has been an increased interest in the study of language processes in psychotherapy. More recently, research and theoretical formulations of the therapeutic process suggested that we must move from the microscopic study of verbal modes to a macroscopic approach in which these modes are organized into narratives. Narratives are conceived, in this perspective, as the basic instruments for me...

This article describes a 2-year, multi-hospital study on the effects of psychotherapy for nonchronic schizophrenic patients. The design and methods used to evaluate the relative benefits of exploratory, insight-oriented (EIO) psychotherapy and reality-adaptive, supportive (RAS) psychotherapy when both are provided by experienced therapists against the backdrop of good hospital and psychopharmac...

Although the efficacy of psychotherapy for treating many disorders has been demonstrated in randomized clinical trials (Ekers, Richards, & Gilbody, 2008; Hofman & Smits, 2008; Hoglend, 1999), little is known about the mechanisms through which psychotherapy achieves its effects (Kazdin, 2005). The purpose of this review is to examine the state of research on the mechanisms of psychotherapy. Firs...

numerous algorithms have been proposed to solve the shortest-pathproblem; many of them consider a single-mode network and crispcosts. other attempts have addressed the problem of fuzzy costs ina single-mode network, the so-called fuzzy shortest-path problem(fspp). the main contribution of the present work is to solve theoptimum path problem in a multimodal transportation network, inwhich the co...