All indicators suggest that technology may be an inherent part of psychotherapy delivery in the next decade. This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session devoted to technology in psychotherapy. Articles in this series feature self-help Internet sites, computer-administered psychotherapy, adjunctive palmtop computer psychotherapy, virtua...

Over the past six decades, behavior therapy has been a major contributor to the development of evidence-based psychotherapy treatments. However, a long-standing concern with behavior therapy among many nonbehavioral clinicians has been the potential risk for symptom substitution. Few studies have been conducted to evaluate symptom substitution in response to behavioral treatments, largely due t...

OBJECTIVE There is no published data on how mental health professionals (MHPs) in developing Asian countries view psychotherapy. Since practitioners of psychotherapy may come from both medical and non-medical (e.g. clinical psychology, social work, counselling) backgrounds, differences between the 2 groups may have practical significance. The aims of this study were to examine the views of MHPs...

AIM The purpose of the research was to analyse the structure of social networks as well as types and sources of support received by patients with unipolar and bipolar disease. METHOD Assessment was made according to Bizoń's method and Cohen's ISEL. RESULTS It has been shown that the functioning of social networks of patients diagnosed as having unipolar affective disorders differs from the ...

PTSD is a complex psychobiological disorder that causes disfunctionality in many areas. In treating PTSD different models have been applied, however, no general consensus on the method of treatment has yet been achieved. At the Clinic for Psychological Medicine we have developed the model of combined treatment for PTSD patients that involves outpatient individual psychotherapy, psychopharmacoth...

The problem of substance abuse has shown an increase in quantity, quality, and rate distribution, both terms the number victims types abuse. World drug reports around 275 million people used drugs worldwide 2020. In Indonesia, there are 3.66 users 2021. When with stop taking have desire to take it again, is called craving phase. case a 36-year-old male Mental Behavioral Disorders Due Use Other ...

The aim of psychotherapy – individual or group psychotherapy – is to bring about change in painful feelings, distorted perceptions of self and others, dysfunctional behavior, etc. While there are many systematic studies of short term individual and group psychotherapy, researches of long term psychotherapy such group analytic psychotherapy is, hardly exist. The practice of group psychotherapy h...