Occupational Therapy – Evidence-Based Practice

 
2007 Building the Evidence for Occupational Therapy Priorities for Research, 2007, College  of Occupational Therapists.
Abstract:
Building the evidence for occupational therapy: priorities for research reflects the wide range of work that the Research and Development (R&D) group at the College of Occupational Therapists has conducted or commissioned in order to identify the research priorities across the [...]

Self-Evaluation of Cognitive Therapy Performance: Do Therapists Know How Competent They Are?

Self-Evaluation of Cognitive Therapy Performance: Do Therapists Know How Competent They Are? Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy June 2008 online early article
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The quality control of therapy in routine clinical practice depends to a large degree on the ability of therapists to evaluate accurately their own performance in administering therapy. However, the literature in many fields casts [...]

Crisis resolution and home treatment teams for older people with mental illness

Crisis resolution and home treatment teams for older people with mental illness,  Dibben, C. et al. 2008 Psychiatric Bulletin 32 268-270      
Abstract:  We examined the impact of a crisis resolution and home treatment teams (CRHTT) on hospital admission rates, bed days and treatment satisfaction among older people with mental illness and their carers. We compared [...]

Eating Disorders – Factors influencing the utilization of empirically supported treatments for eating disorders

Factors influencing the utilization of empirically supported treatments for eating disorders,  Simmons, A.M. et al. 2008 Eating Disorders   
This study expands upon previous research investigating the use of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for eating disorders by surveying a large sample of clinicians who specialize in treating eating disorders. Surveys developed for this study were sent [...]

Impact of depressive symptoms on the rate of progression to dementia in patients affected by mild cognitive impairment

Impact of depressive symptoms on the rate of progression to dementia in patients affected by mild cognitive impairment,  Panza, F. et al. 2008  International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry  23 (7) 726-734
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Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is often a prodromal of dementia and depressive symptoms have been suggested as risk factor for dementing disorders. We evaluated [...]

Beating the Blues the Impact – The role of computer-aided psychotherapy within an NHS CBT specialist service

The role of computer-aided psychotherapy within an NHS CBT specialist service,  Learmonth, D. et al. 2008 Counselling and Psychotherapy Research 8 (2) 117-123 
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To date, the feasibility of computer-aided psychotherapy as an intervention has only been recognised in primary care practice. The present study sought to evaluate the impact of ‘Beating the Blues’ (BtB), an [...]

Top 25 Hottest Articles from Behaviour Research & Therapy

   Top 25 Hottest Articles from Behaviour Research & Therapy  – January – March 2008
Below is a list of the hottest articles from January – March 2008
Topics covered: – CBT, Mindfulness, Anxiety, Eating Disorders, Persnality Disorder, ADHD, Post traumatic stress disorder, and more ……..
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Pandemic influenza: guidance on preparing mental health services in England

Pandemic influenza: guidance on preparing mental health services in England, Department of Health, 2nd July 2008
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This document is designed to assist mental health trusts and other specialist mental health service providers in developing their plans for responding to an influenza pandemic. This document details a national approach, [...]

Equality & Diversity – Making the difference: The Pacesetters beginner’s guide to service improvement for equality and diversity in the NHS

Making the difference: The Pacesetters beginner’s guide to service improvement for equality and diversity in the NHS, Department of Health, 7th July 2008
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This guide is intended to raise awareness of service improvement approaches for those working within the Pacesetters programme. Service improvement is concerned with testing ideas, [...]

Rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and medication in the treatment of major depressive disorder: a randomized clinical trial, posttreatment outcomes, and six-month follow-up

Rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and medication in the treatment of major depressive disorder: a randomized clinical trial, posttreatment outcomes, and six-month follow-up , Journa;l of Clinical Psychology, 2008, V64 (6) 728-746
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A randomized clinical trial was undertaken to investigate the relative efficacy of rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT), cognitive therapy (CT), and pharmacotherapy in the treatment [...]

Eating Disorders & CBT Evidence-Based Practice – Moving From Efficacy to Effectiveness in Eating Disorders Prevention: The Sorority Body Image Program

Moving From Efficacy to Effectiveness in Eating Disorders Prevention: The Sorority Body Image Program, Cognitive & Behavioral Practice 2008 Vol.15 (1) 18-27
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Although eating disorders prevention research has begun to produce programs with demonstrated efficacy, many such programs simply target individuals as opposed to engaging broader social systems (e.g., [...]

Advances in understanding the mechanisms and management of persistent pain in older adultsa

Advances in understanding the mechanisms and management of persistent pain in older adults, British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 101(1):111-120
Abstract: Older adults with persistent pain are not simply a chronologically older version of younger pain patients. Pain-related disability in older adults may be driven by pain ‘homeostenosis’, that is, diminished ability to effectively respond to the [...]

SFBT – The integration of solution-focused brief therapy principles in nursing: a literature review

The integration of solution-focused brief therapy principles in nursing: a literature review, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Volume 15 Issue 1, Pages 37 - 44, Published Online: 4 Jan 2008

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The ongoing movement from institutional care to community-orientated care has gradually spread around the developed world. This shift in the philosophy of care has resulted in a reduction in [...]

The utility of the Cambridge Behavioural Inventory in neurodegenerative disease

The utility of the Cambridge Behavioural Inventory in neurodegenerative disease, Journal of Neurology,  Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. July 2008; 79: 500-503
Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, UK
Abstract: We investigated the utility of [...]