integrative health brings together conventional and complementary approaches in The coordinated manner. Integrative also emphasizes multimodal interventions, which are two or more interventions such as (such medication, physical rehabilitation, psychotherapy), at acupuncture, yoga, probiotics) various combinations, with an emphasis on treating the whole person rather than, for example, organ sy...

Although multi-component psychotherapeutic interventions are first-line treatments for Disruptive Behavior Disorders (DBD), pharmacotherapy is often associated for more severe patients. Our aim was to explore effectiveness of an associated pharmacotherapy in referred children with DBD receiving a one-year psychotherapeutic intervention. Aggression, callous unemotional (CU) traits and emotional ...

The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was used to study 31 psychotherapists who treated 1,381 patients in intensive multimodal inpatient psychotherapy. AAI dimensional ratings of security versus insecurity and dismissiveness versus preoccupation were used to predict alliance and outcome via multilevel regression techniques (hierarchical linear modeling). There were no main effects of therapists'...

The authors review recent controlled studies on the interrelationship of the family and its members with borderline disorder and propose a new model for understanding and managing this relationship. The focus of the model is on psychopathology, evaluation, and treatment of patient and family as they influence each other. In the authors' view this illness originates in cerebral dysfunction, in t...

MULTIMODAL PET-MRS INVESTIGATION OF GLUTAMATE-DEPENDENT NEURORECEPTOR PLASTICITY IN THE HEALTHY HUMAN BRAIN Milan Scheidegger, Alexander Fuchs, Simon Ametamey, Felix Kuhn, Anass Johayem, Alfred Buck, Erich Seifritz, and Anke Henning Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Hospit...

The psychological treatment of children’s problems is the focus of several professions and is carried out in many settings and situations. Although theoretical viewpoints are wide-ranging and essentially rooted in adult-based theories, the child or adolescent presents a unique challenge to the child mental health worker. Children are not simply little adults. Their treatment cannot be viewed as...

Contemporary psychiatry is looking at affective sciences to understand human behavior, cognition and the mind in health and disease. Since it has been recognized that emotions have a pivotal role for the human mind, an ever increasing number of laboratories and research centers are interested in affective sciences, affective neuroscience, affective psychology and affective psychopathology. Ther...

background many multimodal analgesia techniques have been tried to provide adequate analgesia for midline incisions extending above and below the umbilicus aiming at limiting the perioperative use of morphine thus limiting side effects. ultrasound (us) guidance made the anesthesiologist reconsider old techniques for wider clinical use. the rectus sheath block (rsb) is a useful technique under-u...