CBT & Case Formulation - Clients’ experience of case formulation in cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis

  Clients’ experience of case formulation in cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis , British Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 47, Number 2, June 2008 , pp. 127-138(12)
Abstract: Objectives Case formulation (CF) is considered essential to the practice of cognitive behaviour therapy, and crucial when working with more complex problems such as psychosis. Several claims are made for [...]

CBT & Suicide - Cognitive behaviour therapy to prevent complicated grief among relatives and spouses bereaved by suicide: cluster randomised controlled trial

   Cognitive behaviour therapy to prevent complicated grief among relatives and spouses bereaved by suicide: cluster randomised controlled trial, BMJ, May 2007; 334: 994
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Most read article from Treating depression with the evidence-based psychotherapies: a critique of the evidence

Treating depression with the evidence-based psychotherapies: a critique of the evidence , Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Volume 115, Issue 5, Page 352-359, May 2007
Abstract:  Objective: While Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) have been positioned as first-line evidence-based treatments for depression, we suggest that limitations to the ‘evidence’ deserve wider appreciation.
Method: A systematic literature search was [...]

Dual Diagnosis - Psychosocial Treatment Programs for People With Both Severe Mental Illness and Substance Misuse

Psychosocial Treatment Programs for People With Both Severe Mental Illness and Substance Misuse , Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34: 226-228
Abstract:  Over 50% of people with a severe mental illness also use illicit drugs and/or alcohol at hazardous levels. This review is based on the findings of 25 randomized controlled trials which assessed the effectiveness of psychosocial [...]

CBT & Schizophrenia - Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia: Effect Sizes, Clinical Models, and Methodological Rigor

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Schizophrenia: Effect Sizes, Clinical Models, and Methodological Rigor , Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access, 2008 34: 523-537
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Abstract: Guidance in the United States and United Kingdom has included cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis (CBTp) as a preferred therapy. But recent advances have widened the CBTp targets [...]

CBT - Coping Tool Kit for Psychosis

Cognitive Coping Tool Kit for Psychosis: Development of a Group-Based Curriculum
Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 98-106
Abstract:
This article outlines an 8-week curriculum that was created to help outpatients develop cognitive and behavioral skills for coping with delusions and hallucinations as well as to reduce patients’ comorbid subjective levels of distress (e.g., depression, [...]

CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Across the Stages of Psychosis: Prodromal, First Episode, and Chronic Schizophrenia, Online Early Edition, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 2008
Lucia R. Valmaggia, Paul Tabraham, Eric Morris, Theo K. Bouman
Abstract
Since the early 1990s, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been increasingly used as an adjunctive treatment for psychotic disorders. This paper describes the CBT of [...]

CBT & Adolescent Eating Disorders - Most Read Article from Child & Adolescent Mental Health

  Evidence Based Research in CBT with Adolescent Eating Disorders, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 9-12, Feb 2006
Abstract: Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is increasingly becoming the treatment of choice for a number of adolescent mental health problems, including depression (Harrington et al., 199 and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), (March, 1995). In [...]

New Reviews from Cochrane April 2008 - Occupational, Depression, CBT take your pick

  New Reviews from Cochrane
·         Anticonvulsants for cocaine dependence  
·         Clobazam as an add-on in the management of refractory epilepsy  
·         Cognitive-behavioural interventions for preventing youth gang involvement for children and young people (7-16) 
·         Dopamine agonist therapy in early Parkinson’s disease  
·         Huperzine A for Alzheimer’s disease   
·         Interventions to improve occupational health in depressed people 
·         Omega-3 fatty [...]

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis , Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 164-172, Nov 2007
Abstract: We conducted a meta-analysis using 20 randomised controlled studies of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. The mean pre-post effect size was d = 0.94, which [...]

Commissioning Toolkit on improving access to psychological therapies

  Commissioning Toolkit on improving access to psychological therapies, Department of Health, 11th April 2008,

 
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Link to NICE guideline (depression)

Link to NICE guideline (anxiety)

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme aims to help PCTs implement NICE Guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders. This Commissioning Toolkit is designed [...]

Dr Alistair Smith, Lancashire Care Foundation Trust - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression in the Elderly

  Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurring depression in older people: A qualitative study, Aging & Mental Health, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 346 – 357
Dr Alistair Smith, L. GRAHAM, & S. SENTHINATHAN Psychological Services, Lancashire Care NHS Trust, 18 Euxton Lane, Chorley, Lancashire PR7 1PS
Abstract:

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a meditation-based intervention designed [...]

Special Series on Prevention of Mental Disorders from Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

 Special Series on Prevention of Mental Disorders, Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2008,
Prevention of Mental Disorders - pages 1-2
Maureen L. Whittal
Given the high prevalence and enormous burden of mental disorders and the efficacy of CBT in reducing symptom severity of a number of acute disorders, it is reasonable to use these [...]

CBT Interventions for Schizophrenic Voice Hearers

   Significance of Cognitive Intervention for Voice Hearers,   Volume 44 Issue 1 Page 40-47, January 2008, Perspectives In Psychiatric Care
Abstract: 
PURPOSE. Studies show that focused intervention attenuates depreciatory hallucinations.
DESIGN AND METHODS. A repeated measures design was used in this randomized controlled trial to determine the significance of any sustained abatement in the hallucinations of 65 persons suffering from [...]

Hawton - Life problems, Deliberate Self-Harm & Personality Disorder

  Life problems and deliberate self-harm: Associations with gender, age, suicidal intent and psychiatric and personality disorder, Journal of Affective Disorder, March 2008
Authors: Camilla Haw and Keith Hawton

 
Abstract
Background
Deliberate self-harm (DSH) may occur in response to negative life events and life problems. High suicidal intent may be a risk factor for subsequent suicide but little [...]

CBT to help Depression in Infertile Women

  Treatment of depression and anxiety in infertile women: Cognitive behavioral therapy versus fluoxetine, Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 108, Issues 1-2, May 2008, Pages 159-164
Abstract:

Background
Infertility is a stressful event that can give rise to psychological difficulties. Both psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy are well-established treatments for depression and anxiety. The aim of this study was [...]

CBT - How much will prevent depressive relapse

   How much cognitive therapy, for which patients, will prevent depressive relapse? Journal of Affective Disorder, March 2008

Background
Although clinicians accept that relapse is probable when successful acute phase pharmacotherapy is discontinued, less is known about when to stop versus continue successful cognitive therapy. This report describes the development of “translational tools” to bridge the gap [...]

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

  Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in bipolar disorder: Preliminary evaluation of immediate effects on between-episode functioning
Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 107, Issues 1-3, April 2008, Pages 275-279
J.M.G. Williams, Y. Alatiq, C. Crane, T. Barnhofer, M.J.V. Fennell, D.S. Duggan, S. Hepburn and G.M. Goodwin
Abstract:
Background
Bipolar disorder is highly recurrent and rates of comorbidity are high. Studies have pointed [...]

Therapeutic Use of Self-Confrontation with Suicidal Clients

   Clinician Perspectives of the Therapeutic Use of the Self-confrontation Procedure with Suicidal Clients, Journal of Mental Health Counseling, Jan2008, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p14-30
Abstract:  This research investigated clinician perspectives of the therapeutic use of the self-confrontation procedure with suicidal clients. The self-confrontation procedure, which involves the use of video playback of interviews with clients [...]

CBT - Vocational Rehabillitation with the Severely Mentally Ill

  Cognitive behavioural therapy in vocational rehabilitation with the severely mentally ill: Review, design and implementation , Journal of Mental Health, Volume 17, Issue 1 February 2008 , pages 105 - 117
Abstract:  Many individuals with severe mental illness want to return to work. Vocational rehabilitation attempts practically to help those with severe mental illness achieve [...]

CBT & GCBT - The effectiveness of group cognitive behaviour therapy for unipolar depressive disorders

  The effectiveness of group cognitive behaviour therapy for unipolar depressive disorders,  Journal of Affective Disorders Volume 107, Issues 1-3  April 2008, Pages 5-21
Abstract: This paper evaluates the effectiveness of group cognitive behaviour therapy (GCBT) as an intervention for unipolar depressive disorders. PsychINFO and PubMed databases were selected to generate the 34 papers used [...]

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Evaluating Current Evidence and Informing Future Research

  Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Evaluating Current Evidence and Informing Future Research, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology. 75(6):1000-1005, December 2007.
Abstract:  Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a recently developed class-based program designed to prevent relapse or recurrence of major depression ( Z. V. Segal, J. M. G. Williams, & J. Teasdale, 2002). Although research in this [...]

CBT & Psychosocial Therapeutic Strategies Effective in Patients with Schizophrenia

   Adjunctive psychosocial therapies for the treatment of schizophrenia,  Schizophrenia Research Volume 100, Issues 1-3, March 2008, Pages 108-119
Abstract: Antipsychotic pharmacotherapy is the standard of care for the treatment of schizophrenia. Although pharmacotherapy effectively improves some symptoms, others can remain. Pharmacotherapy alone also tends to produce only limited improvement in social functioning and quality [...]

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Bipolar Disorder

    Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in bipolar disorder: Preliminary evaluation of immediate effects on between-episode functioning,  Journal of Affective Disorders , Volume 107, Issues 1-3, April 2008, Pages 275-279
Abstract: 
Background
Bipolar disorder is highly recurrent and rates of comorbidity are high. Studies have pointed to anxiety comorbidity as one factor associated with risk of suicide attempts [...]

Top 10 Most Read Article from Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy - CBT - Therapist Skills

  Therapist Skills: A Cognitive Model of their Acquisition and Refinement, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Volume 34, Issue 01, Jan 2006, pp 57-78
Abstract: A new model of therapist skill development is presented. Grounded in information processing theory, it provides a comprehensive framework that accounts for a range of phenomena encountered by trainers and trainees – [...]

Top 10 Most Read Article from Cognitive Psychotherapy - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Asperger Syndrome

  Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Asperger Syndrome, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Volume 34, Issue 03, Jul 2006, pp 293-303
Abstract: People with Asperger syndrome (AS) appear to have higher than expected rates of co-morbid psychiatric disorder. The main co-morbid diagnoses are anxiety disorders and depression, but eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance abuse and [...]

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children: Results of a Pilot Study

  Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children: Results of a Pilot Study, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Volume 22, Number 1, 2008 , pp. 15-28(14)
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and helpfulness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) for the treatment of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of nonreferred [...]

Beating the Blues - Computerized cognitive–behaviour therapy for anxiety and depression: a practical solution to the shortage of trained therapists

  Computerized cognitive–behaviour therapy for anxiety and depression: a practical solution to the shortage of trained therapists, Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, Volume 11, Number 5, October 2004 , pp. 508-513(6)
Abstract: Computerized cognitive–behaviour therapy (CCBT) programmes have been developed to help meet the enormous need for evidence-based psychological treatment of common mental health problems [...]

The 10 Most Frequently Read Journal Articles from Evidence Based Mental Health Journal

   These articles have received the most “hits” in Evidence-Based Mental Health during February 2008
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Julie Glanville, Carol Lefebvre

Identifying systematic reviews: key resources

Evid. Based Ment. Health 2000; 3: 68-69.
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CBT & OCD - Clinical predictors of response to cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder

   Clinical predictors of response to cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder, Clinical Psychology Review  Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2008, Pages 118-130
Abstract: This paper reviews predictors of treatment response in open and controlled trials of cognitive-behavioral therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). We focus on demographic characteristics, aspects of OCD symptoms, comorbidity, family factors, cognitive [...]