BACKGROUND Sexual offenders continue to occupy the public's attention; a significant proportion of this population is diagnosed with paraphilias. Cognitivebehavioral treatment has been the mainstay of treatment for sex offenders and for the paraphilias for the past three decades. This article will review the history of cognitivebehavioral therapy, its techniques, and its efficacy. METHOD A li...

A working relationship between the patient and therapist is an essential part of any psychotherapy, yet few guidelines exist for this component of cognitivebehavioral treatment. Findings of therapy process and outcome research suggest that the therapeutic relationship strongly influences treatment results, and that interpersonal factors and technical applications interact in forming an effectiv...

Allan Cohen: The author makes a compelling argument for the integrated approach. But while he points out that highly structured cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT] works very well for the high-risk group, these are very expensive programs to run. I don’t know whether or how widely that could be adopted in community treatment programs. I don’t know if there is enough money for training and paying...

Anxiety disorders present a significant concern for children, affecting up to 20% of those under 12 years old. The importance of parenting behavior in the development and maintenance of childhood anxiety disorders has been established both theoretically and empirically. We review the literature on cognitivebehavioral parenting interventions aimed at reducing child anxiety and discuss the limita...

U what motivates people to drink abusively involves knowing their drink­ ing behaviors and patterns and their perceptions, or cognitions, about themselves and about alcohol. Cognitive­ behavioral psychology incorporates all of these elements, expanding the basis of traditional behavior theory beyond an exclusive focus on observable behaviors to include thoughts and emotions. Al­ though it has b...

Acceptanceand mindfulnessbased interventions as MindfulnessBased Stress Reduction program (MBSR), MindfulnessBased Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are new generation of CognitiveBehavioral Therapies for the treatment of chronic pain. To evaluate the effectiveness of acceptanceand mindfulnessbased interventions on patients with chronic pain, a systematic revi...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) focused on religious themes, also known as scrupulosity, is a relatively common but poorly understood form of this disorder. It also presents unique challenges to the therapist who must negotiate the procedures of exposure and response prevention while respecting the patient’s religious beliefs and practices. Garcia (2008) describes the successful treatment o...

Ablon JS, Jones EE: How expert clinicians’ prototypes of an ideal treatment correlate with outcome in psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Psychotherapy Research 1998; 8:71–83 Summary: A panel of internationally known experts in psychodynamic (PD) and cognitive-behavioral (CB) therapy used the Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS) to produce prototypes of an ideal treatment in each of th...