BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that telephone-administered cognitive-behavioral therapy (T-CBT) is superior to forms of no treatment controls. No study has examined if the skills-training component to T-CBT provides any benefit beyond that provided by nonspecific factors. OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of a 16-week T-CBT against a strong control for attention and nonspecific therapy ef...

OBJECTIVE This article reports recent trends in the use of outpatient psychotherapy in the United States. METHOD Data from the household sections of the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey and the 1997 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were analyzed. Trends in the rate of psychotherapy use from these nationally representative samples are presented by age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital stat...

Accumulating evidence indicates that psychotherapy participants show increased physiological responsiveness to stress. The purpose of the present study was to examine differences between individuals participating in outpatient psychotherapy and matched controls using an experimental design. Forty-two psychotherapy participants and 48 matched controls were assessed on cardiovascular and cortisol...

In empirical research about psychotherapy it is usual to discuss similarities and differences between the schools of psychotherapy. It is more uncommon to analyze the historical roots for these discussions. This overview describes the subject of similarities and differences between the most common orientations in psychotherapy from a number of perspectives. First there is a discussion about how...