1 Integrated Research and Treatment Center AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany 2 Department of General Surgery, Asklepios Clinic, Hamburg, Germany 3 Schön Klinik Hamburg Eilbek Bariatric Clinic, Hamburg, Germany 4 Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 5 Department of V...

CONTEXT Childhood mood disorders lack sufficient evidence-based treatments. While psychosocial treatments are recommended for both childhood depression and bipolar disorder, empirical support is scarce. OBJECTIVE To determine whether adjunctive multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy would improve outcome for children aged 8 to 12 years with depression or bipolar disorder. DESIGN One hu...

Lisa M. Najavits, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology), Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Trauma Research Program in the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center at McLean Hospital (Belmont, Massachusetts). She is the author of Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse (Guilford Press, New York; 2002) and A Woman’s Addiction Workbook (New Harbinge...

Is psychotherapeutic alliance helped or harmed by using an iPad or computer during an intake session? Two studies are reported where psychotherapists use one of three different technologies in semistructured initial interviews: paper and pen, iPad, or a computer. The studies were conducted at a Primary Care Clinic and a Community Mental Health Clinic to provide a broader context to account for ...

PURPOSE We compared a primary-care-based psychotherapy, that is, problem-solving therapy for primary care (PST-PC), to community-based psychotherapy in treating late-life major depression and dysthymia. DESIGN AND METHODS The data here are from the IMPACT study, which compared collaborative care within a primary care clinic to care as usual in the treatment of 1,801 primary care patients, 60 ...

1) Psychiatric Electrophysiology Unit Translational Research Center University Hospital of Psychiatry University of Bern, Switzerland Tel: ++41 0(31) 930 9369, Fax: ++41 0(31) 930 9961 mail: [email protected] 2) Brain Mapping Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Zürich, Switzerland 3) Developmental Clinical Neurophysiology Department of Child and Adolescent Psych...

Jutta Ernst, Heinz Böker, Joe Hättenschwiler, Daniel Schüpbach, Georg Northoff, Erich Seifritz, and Simone Grimm Clinic for Affective Disorders and General Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric University Hospital, 8029 Zurich, Switzerland, Center for Anxiety and Depression, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland, University of Ottawa, Institute of Mental Health...

Jeroen B. Smaers,1,2 James Steele,3 Charleen R. Case,4 and Katrin Amunts5,6 1Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 2Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 3University College London, Institute of Archaeology, London, United Kingdom. 4Florida State University, Department of Psychology, Tallaha...