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In cases of agitation and aggressive behavior after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), the benefits/risks ratio of pharmacological treatments remains unclear. A qualitative analysis of clinical situations could highlight the relevance of psychotherapy care.
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PMID: 21596642
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According to current medical opinion chronic mental diseases such as schizophrenia require life-long treatment. The choice of antipsychotics is an important treatment factor, since their side-effects often influence patients' compliance with treatment. Severe side-effects may cause t...
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PMID: 21448108
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The treatment of dysthymia in itself poses a problem in the everyday psychiatric practice and it can be further hindered when accompanied by pronounced personality traits (which are indicative of disorder). Due to its pathology and duration dysthymia interferes with the patient's qua...
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PMID: 21448115
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Long-term outcome of patients with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizotypal features has been rarely studied. We investigated this issue in this retrospective pilot study.
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PMID: 21377062
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Alexithymia is characterized by deficits in perceiving, differentiating and regulating affects, both one's own affects and those of others. It is often related to interpersonal problems which are a major reason for seeking psychotherapy. This study assesses the relationship between alexithymia, speci...
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PMID: 21968938
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The study assesses patient satisfaction and investigates the correlation between patient satisfaction and the setting and attainment of goals.
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PMID: 21432841
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We found at least one clinical psychiatric diagnosis in one third of all patients at follow-up. Even more of the formerly inpatients reported subthreshold psychic symptoms (55%). The mental outcome was strongly related to comorbid diagnosis at time of inpatient care. Estimated remission rate for sep...
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PMID: 21425639
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Called dotage in Korea, dementia is primarily characterized by cognitive impairments. Secondary manifestations include mental-emotional problems, including depression. This study was designed to examine the effects of an integrated dementia intervention for Korean older adults. The intervention is c...
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PMID: 21053789
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Performance anxiety, or stage fright, is anxiety aroused about potential mishaps in performance that expose feared inadequacies before an audience and which evoke feelings of embarrassment and humilation. For affected musicians, performance anxiety can be emotionally devastating, as their career cho...
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PMID: 21170476
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To develop an individualized treatment plan that addresses both psychotic and affective symptoms in patients with schizoaffective disorder, clinicians can take several steps. First, clinicians can confirm the diagnosis. In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Te...
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PMID: 21190648
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The goals of maintenance treatment for euthymic patients with bipolar disorder are to prevent recurrence of acute episodes and to optimize the patient's adaptive functioning. Although medications are the primary treatment for preventing relapse, patient outcomes can be enhanced through the use of ps...
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PMID: 21190635
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Although guided self-help for depression and anxiety disorders has been examined in many studies, it is not clear whether it is equally effective as face-to-face treatments.MethodWe conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in which the effects of guided self-help on depression and a...
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PMID: 20406528
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The results of a meta-analysis about the efficacy of psychological treatment for children who have suffered physical maltreatment and neglect by their parents or tutors are presented. Sixteen studies that met our selection criteria were included, providing 22 treated groups and 8 control groups. The...
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PMID: 21044489
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We hypothesized that OCD patients will select a combination of medication and psychotherapy as their most preferred choice overall.
The authors designed a treatment-preference survey using 2 health economics methods, forced-choice and contingent-ranking methods, to elicit preferences for OCD treatme...
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PMID: 21114948
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Childhood-onset schizophrenia is a rare variant of adult-onset schizophrenia. Patients with early-onset schizophrenia typically have a more chronic course of illness, greater cognitive impairment, increased negative symptoms, and more severe social consequences than patients with adult-onset schizop...
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PMID: 21114942
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The aim of this study was to examine long-term changes in symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, and in health-related quality of life in traumatized refugees 23 months after admission to multidisciplinary treatment. The study group comprised 45 persons admitted to the Reha...
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PMID: 21048474
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This article discusses some of the practices of psychosocial treatment. Broadly speaking, these practices include an emphasis on the doctor-patient relationship, the creation of a sound and lasting alliance, and the experience of trust and partnership that the physician fosters in helping the patien...
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PMID: 20951276
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Psychotherapy is an efficacious and long used type of care. However, information available in specialized literature shows that this area has been little studied. The objective of this study is to determine the prevalence of use of outpatient psychotherapy by adult population, their related factors,...
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PMID: 21048467
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Based on empirical evidence, psychotherapeutic treatment of depression is recommended if the following methods are applied: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Psychoanalytic/Short-term Psychodynamic Therapy. The empirical evidence for the efficacy of CBT and IPT is...
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PMID: 21043019
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Biological treatment procedures are based on evidence-based guidelines. According to all of them, a correct diagnosis of depression is required before starting therapy. Within recent years many different types of antidepressants have been introduced to the pharmacotherapeutic armamentarium. The "new...
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PMID: 21043020
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By now psychoeducation is also recommended for the treatment of depression, due to data showing high acceptance and efficacy regarding a broad range of clinical variables. The impact of family-involvement by groups for relatives is not sufficiently studied yet, but findings concerning other severe m...
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PMID: 21043021
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Postpartum depressive disorders, except for the brief and common postpartum blues, are serious mental disorders which can result in adversities for the mother, her infant and the whole family. Information and prevention should be topics of major concern. Because of its numerous psychosocial implicat...
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PMID: 21043018
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About 11% of pregnant women suffer from a major depression requiring treatment. If left untreated, there are specific risks such as preterm delivery or low birth weight. The initial difficulty lies in diagnosing the depression itself, since many depressive symptoms are falsely ascribed to the pregna...
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PMID: 21043017
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Although attachment theory has become an influential approach used for the study of mental disorders, hitherto little has been known about the relation of attachment to somatoform disorders. In this study 15 patients with a somatoform pain disorder were compared with 15 non-clinical control participa...
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PMID: 20967690
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We conclude that evidence in favour of psychodynamic psychotherapy exists for unipolar depression, panic anxiety with and without agoraphobia, social phobia, generalised anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. For complex mental conditions, long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy shows greater eff...
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PMID: 21040658
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Establishing the trust needed for deep affect work requires that the therapist's sense of self be engaged … the patient cannot be expected to rapidly open up to a therapist who remains hidden and shielded. The emotional atmosphere should be one in which the patient feels safe and the therapist bra...
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PMID: 20865597
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This study investigated the economics of multisystemic therapy (MST) versus individual therapy (IT) using rearrest data from a 13.7-year follow-up (Schaeffer & Borduin, 2005) of a randomized clinical trial with serious juvenile offenders (Borduin et al., 1995). Two types of benefits of MST were eval...
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PMID: 20954776
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The probability of achieving and sustaining symptomatic remission in major depressive disorder (MDD) with first-line pharmacotherapy is approximately 30%. Ample documentation shows that the maximal therapeutic effect obtained with antidepressant pharmacotherapy is approximately 4 to 6 weeks, perhaps...
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PMID: 20977871
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We provide the rationale, design, and preliminary data from 3 ongoing clinical trials of mobile interventions developed for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Project 1 used a personal digital assistant to prompt engagement in personalized self-management behaviors based on real-time data. Project 2...
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PMID: 20921861
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The effects of hospital-based rehabilitation including weekly supportive psychodynamic therapy compared with specialized assertive intervention and standard treatment has not previously been investigated in first-episode psychosis. The aim of the study was to examine long-term effect on use of insti...
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PMID: 20059798
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Patients with cancer are burdened with pain, ranging in prevalence from 14 to 100% in this population, and with comorbid behavioural symptoms such as depression and cognitive decline. However, the complex relationships between cancer pain, depression and cognitive decline, as well as their causes, s...
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PMID: 19969448
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By critically reviewing Freud's views on happiness, and also those of Helene Deutsch, Bertram Lewin, Melanie Klein, and Heinz Kohut, the author evolves a complex and multilayered perspective on the phenomenon. He categorizes happiness into four related and occasionally overlapping varieties: pleasur...
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PMID: 20798674
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The provision of mental health services over the Internet is becoming increasingly commonplace as new technologies continue to develop. Evidence in support of the efficacy of many such interventions is accumulating. Given the potential global reach of Internet-based psychological services, the autho...
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PMID: 20485997
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The authors describe the inception and subsequent testing of a questionnaire on attitudes regarding how psychotherapy ought to be pursued: the Valuable Elements in Psychotherapy Questionnaire (VEP-Q). A sample of 416 Swedish therapists (161 psychodynamic, 93 cognitive, 95 cognitive behavioral, and 6...
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PMID: 20635258
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I AND postpartum depression', 'bipolar II AND postpartum depression', 'postpartum hypomania', and 'postpartum hypomania AND screening', was carried out. The reference lists of articles identified were also searched to select other relevant publications.
Brief hypomanic symptoms occur in the early pu...
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PMID: 19837461
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These results provide cross-sectional evidence suggest that positive self-appraisals may buffer individuals with psychosis against the pernicious impact of a well known clinical risk factor, hopelessness. Accounting for positive self-appraisals may improve identification of individuals at high risk...
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PMID: 20538264
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This phase 1 clinical trial combined qualitative and quantitative methods to modify a collaborative care, telephone-based, depression care management intervention for adolescent mothers and to determine the acceptability, feasibility, and initial efficacy of the intervention in a sample of adolescen...
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PMID: 20020164
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A good number of different methods and antidepressive agents are now available for the management of depressive symptoms, the efficacy of which has been confirmed by clinical studies. Various approaches--be it medication, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), psychoeducation and psychotherapy--have also...
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PMID: 20694938
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In this comparative intervention study, 107 working individuals with above average levels of distress were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; n = 37); stress inoculation training (SIT; n = 37); or a waitlist control group (n = 33). The interventions...
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PMID: 20627269
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We established feasible factors. Thus, our results show good validity, and a plausible internal structure of the Axis I....
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PMID: 20645237
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