People expect cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to be more prescriptive than it is, and therapists to be more controlling than they really are. That's according to a series of interviews with 18 clients who undertook 8 sessions (14 hours) of CBT to help with their diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder.Henny Westra and colleagues selected for interview nine clients whose therapy had ended po
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June 24, 2010
Mental Heath Coalition Welcomes New Government Spending On Psychological Therapies, UK
The Government has announced its plans to continue to invest £70 million into psychological therapies designed to treat common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Since 2007, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) scheme has focused on increasing access to talking treatment Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)...
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March 5, 2010
Psychotherapy May Help Autoimmune Disease
This study shows that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is effective in dealing with patients suffering from lupus and high levels of daily stress as it significantly reduces the incidence of psychological disorders associated with lupus and improves and maintains patients' QOL, despite there being no significant reduction in the disease activity index...
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September 2, 2009
Profile of quiet revolutionary Aaron Beck
Aaron Beck is the creator of one of the world's most widely used and influential psychological treatments, cognitive behavioural therapy, and he's profiled in an excellent article for The American Scholar.While Beck is most associated with CBT, the article really nails why he is important in the development of psychological treatment, and its not just for the therapy he invented: from the very b
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August 21, 2009
Effectiveness Of Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy When Delivered Online In Real Time By A Therapist
An article in this week's Global Mental Health special edition of The Lancet reports that Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) seems to be efficient when delivered online in real time by a therapist. The benefits are maintained over eight months. This technique of delivery could expand access to CBT in primary care. The article is the work of Dr David Kessler, NIHR National School for Primary Care
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August 7, 2009
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Could Soon Have Its Own Disease Classification, And Trials Of A Drug/Psychotherapy Combination Treatment Are Ongoing
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterised by obsessions, compulsive behaviours, or both. New developments in the treatment of OCD involve medications that work in conjunction with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), the most promising of which is D-cycloserine. OCD could be placed in a new classification of its own when mental health nomenclature is revised in future years*.
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