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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March 5, 2010
Psychotherapy May Help Autoimmune Disease
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July 31, 2009
What Rorschach Tests Really Tell Us
One of the most well-known psychological tools is the Rorschach Inkblot Test. A viewer looks at ten inkblots, one at a time, and describes what they see. The rationale behind this test is the idea that certain aspects of the subject's personality will be exposed as they are interpreting the images, allowing for the possible diagnosis of various psychological disorders.
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June 30, 2009
Alternative treatment delivery: Part 1, an overview of online psychotherapy
by Joye C. Anestis At PBB, we have spent considerable time writing about empirically-supported treatments (ESTs) for various psychological disorders. One of the goals of PBB is to help disseminate ESTs, both to practitioners and consumers. General awareness that such...
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May 30, 2009
Individuals Genetically At Risk Of Developing Psychological Disorders Also Benefit The Most From Positive Environments
Certain individuals have long been regarded as particularly susceptible to developing behavioural and emotional problems when they experience negative environmental conditions, due to the fact that they carry so-called 'vulnerability genes'.
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May 12, 2009
Kind to be cruel: The ethics of exposure therapies
by Joye C. Anestis We have written rather extensively by now about the benefits of exposure therapies for a variety of psychological disorders. These treatments, which ask clients to deliberately face the very things which scare them, are among the...
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