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...

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...

Behavioral and cognitive psychotherapies are the most widely studied psychological interventions for anxiety disorders. In the present article, the results of ten years of meta-analytic studies on psychotherapies for the various anxiety disorders are reviewed and the relative effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral therapeutic methods is examined. Meta-analytic results support the effectivene...