Cognitive Behaviour Therapy A peer reviewed, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the application of behavioural and cognitive sciences to clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may help reduce current depression, but more long-term studies are needed. Depressive disorders are an extremely common category of mental health conditions around the world. Among all mental and substance use disorders, depression accounts for the largest proportion of disease burden (i.e., years that an individual lives …
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February, 2019
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5 February
Why we should know more about dropout: Identifying change-dropout patterns can help to estimate treatment progress in internet interventions
In their scientific work, researchers rely on the data available to them to draw conclusions based on empirical results. However, when values are missing the interpretation of results can be difficult especially if it remains unknown what caused the dropout to occur. With regard to studies in clinical psychology, this …
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December, 2018
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20 December
Materials used to support cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: A survey of therapists’ clinical practice and views
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for depression and patients who learn skills in CBT seem less likely to relapse. Between-session tasks (‘homework’), where patients practise skills learnt during sessions with their therapist are an integral part of therapy. Doing homework outside of the therapy session is associated …
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19 December
Web-Based CBT for the Prevention of Anxiety Symptoms among Medical and Health Science Graduate Students
Medical and health science graduate students experience more anxiety problems than the general population but are less likely to seek mental healthcare, despite the fact that many of these students learn about and even provide anxiety treatments. This incongruity may be due to concerns about stigma, anonymity, workload, and finances. …
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12 December
Task-Shifting to Improve the Reach of Mental Health Interventions for Trauma Patients: Findings from a Pilot Study of Trauma Nurse Training in Patient-Centered Activity Scheduling for PTSD and Depression
Text by: Doyanne Darnell Each year in the U.S. 1.5-2.5 million people suffer traumatic injury requiring inpatient hospitalization. The nation’s trauma care system is highly effective in saving lives, being well-coordinated within geographic regions to provide a full continuum of medical care and responsive to best-practice guidelines based on up-to-date …
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12 December
Dose response effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy in a school mental health program
Although mental health concerns represent one of the largest contributors to global burden of disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that this burden is not being sufficiently met with accessible and effective treatment. Indeed, significant barriers to accessing mental health treatment exist throughout much of the world, including …
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4 December
Therapist rated alliance can predict outcome in blended Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for depression
How important is alliance in blended Cognitive Behaviour Therapy? That is the research question that we tried to answer in this study that was conducted at Linköping University as part of a larger European project (the E-COMPARED project) on blended treatment for depression. The study was also included in a …
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November, 2018
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26 November
Better with Age? A Comparison of Geriatric and Non-Geriatric Trauma Patients’ Psychological Outcomes Six Months Post-Injury
In the United States, the geriatric population – adults ages 60 and older – is growing and expected to represent 16% of Americans by 2020. [1] Unfortunately, older adults are more prone to potential physical injury and often have a higher risk of morality, relative to the severity of their …
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October, 2018
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20 October
Cognitive processing therapy for PTSD works well! A meta-analysis of RCTs in adult patients
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that can develop following exposure to traumatic events, such as sexual assault, motor vehicle collision, natural disasters, and war. The course of the disorder is often chronic and costly, leading to increased risk for developing other psychiatric disorders (e.g., substance use disorder, …
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15 October
Inside the Black Box: What Accounts for Improvement in Internet-Delivered CBT for Maternal Depression
The World Health Organization ranks depression as the greatest contributor to disability world-wide. Mothers of young children are at high risk for depression, especially mothers experiencing economic difficulties. The impairment depression creates for women places their children at increased risk of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Though effective treatments exist, barriers …
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