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Psychological Intervention and COVID-19: What We Know So Far and What We Can Do
AbstractThe coronavirus COVID-19 and the global pandemic has already had a substantial disruptive impact on society, posing major challenges to the provision of mental health services in a time of crisis, and carrying the spectre of an increased burden to mental health, both in terms of existing psychiatric disorder, and emerging psychological distress from the pandemic. In this paper we provide a framework for understanding the key challenges for psychologically informed mental health care during and beyond the pandemic. We identify three groups that can benefit from psychological approaches to mental health, and/or inter...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - May 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Roll Out the Red Carpet: The 3rd Annual Awards for the Most Valuable Contributions to Psychotherapy
AbstractEvery spring, media coverage emphasizes the"award season", highlighting contributions made by musicians, actors, and professional athletes. Unfortunately, psychologists are not included in these gala celebrations. It seems appropriate to take time to praise the hard work and dedication that is required to publish in an academic journal. The present article summarizes the results from the 3rd annual psychotherapy award program designed to highlight the valuable contributions made in eleven different categories. A total of 81 academic journals were reviewed for their articles published during 2019, and 150 ...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - May 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Comprehensive Treatment of Depression: As Simple as the A-B-C ’S
AbstractThe treatment of depression can become complicated because of the mix of symptoms and the range of interventions that are available. Furthermore, treatment works best when adapted to the unique needs of each client. A simple A-B-C ’S framework can help therapists address several key domains that are relevant to the treatment of most depressed clients.Acceptance refers to the process whereby a therapist helps clients to understand and accept their emotional reactions, learning how to express negative emotions in a more constructive manner.Behavioral activation involves the use of structured activities to help clie...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Susan M. Pollak: Self-Compassion for Parents: Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Capacity to End: Termination of Mentalization-Based Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
AbstractTerminating a therapeutic relationship can be a challenging phase with patients suffering from borderline personality disorder. Despite the critical importance of the termination phase, the proportion of psychotherapy literature devoted to the demands and challenges of this phase is small. This paper describes a mentalization-based approach to detect and intervene against such challenges. It is proposed that termination challenges, while operating through overlapping and interactive mechanisms, can be attributed to (1) patient factors, (2) therapist factors, and (3) therapeutic relationship factors. The paper has c...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Review of Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice, Second Edition
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy in Group for Personality Disorders: Preliminary Results from a Pilot Study in a Public Mental Health Setting
AbstractTo build the evidence for a randomized controlled trial, a pilot study was conducted to investigate the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of a group-psychotherapy based on Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT-G) for patients with personality disorders (PDs). Ten outpatients with PD diagnoses were offered 16 sessions of MIT-G delivered in group format. Effect sizes were calculated for changes from baseline to treatment end for clinical symptoms, interpersonal difficulties, and metacognition. Nine patients finished the full treatment protocol with nonsignificant large effect sizes obtained for change i...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - February 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychotherapy Trainee Humility and Its Impact: Conceptual and Practical Considerations
AbstractHumility has been increasingly recognized and elaborated upon as a critical variable for effective therapeutic practice and training. But all considerations thus far have focused virtually exclusively on supervisor or therapist humility, the psychotherapy trainee ’s humility going unexamined. What role might humility play in the trainee’s own therapist development process and treatment functioning? Furthermore, what implications might trainee humility have for the supervisory relationship? Those questions are considered subsequently. We examine the role of trainee humility in both the treatment and supervisory ...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - February 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Schizophrenia: Psychoanalytical Explorations of the Metacognitive Movement
AbstractMetacognition refers to the set of activities which allow persons to have a sense of oneself and of others available to them within the flow of daily experience. These activities range from awareness of discrete aspects of experience to their synthesis into larger, more complex ideas. Following research documenting the existence and influence of metacognitive deficits in schizophrenia, psychotherapeutic frameworks have emerged aiming to improve metacognition in this group. Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) is one such integrative psychotherapy framework. Therapeutic targets and principles of MERI...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - January 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Qualitative Meta-analytic Review of the Therapist Responsiveness Literature: Guidelines for Practice and Training
AbstractPsychotherapy researchers have developed a body of research on the construct of therapist responsiveness. This literature seeks a clearer picture of how therapists adapt their relational and intervention strategies to their individual clients. The goal of this review was to summarize this literature and generate clinical recommendations. We used the PsycINFO database to identify theoretical papers, case studies, quantitative research, and qualitative research focused upon therapist responsiveness. After exclusion criteria were applied, 75 articles were included in the final thematic analysis. A thematic analysis or...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - January 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Mentalization and Psychosis: A Rationale for the Use of Mentalization Theory to Understand and Treat Non-affective Psychotic Disorder
AbstractSocial functioning can be severely impaired in non-affective psychotic disorder (NAPD). Current models of psychosis pathogenesis do not tend to focus on social dysfunction and pharmacological treatment fails to ameliorate it. In this article, we propose that mentalization theory provides a valuable contribution to the understanding and treatment of NAPD. Impaired mentalizing may contribute to both positive and negatives symptoms as well as social dysfunction observed in NAPD. Furthermore, impaired mentalizing may help explain the relation between childhood abuse, insecure attachment and psychosis. Mentalization bas...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - January 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills and Behavioral Weight Loss for Emotional Eating and Obesity: A Case Study
AbstractLive FREE is a 16-week group intervention for adults with emotional eating and obesity that combines Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills (sessions 1 –9) with standard behavioral weight loss strategies (sessions 10–16). Traditionally, behavioral weight management programs yield inconsistent outcomes, particularly for emotional eaters. Live FREE is predicated on the premise that improved emotion regulation will facilitate greater success in ad opting weight management techniques among emotional eaters. Outcomes are presented with a case study of Amy, a woman who completed Live FREE. Amy reported a history of unsu...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - January 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Imagery Rescripting and Exposure in Social Anxiety: A Randomized Trial Comparing Treatment Techniques
AbstractThis randomized trial compared the effects of imagery rescripting against in vivo exposure administered separately during a single session with 27 socially anxious individuals. Previous research shows that imagery rescripting is a promising treatment technique for various disorders including social anxiety, although imagery rescripting and exposure for social anxiety have not yet been compared. Social anxiety self-report measures (LSAS-SR and BFNE-II); the distress, vividness, and frequency of fear images (i.e., Imagery condition); and the levels of anxiety, avoidance, and the strength of convictions of a feared so...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - December 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Young Women Treating Men with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Challenge for Psychotherapy Integration
AbstractYoung female therapists may struggle with treating heterosexual men who adhere to traditional masculine role norms. This challenge is exacerbated when these men present with borderline personality disorder. Certain evidence-based therapeutic interventions such as irreverent humor, confrontation, and teaching mentalization may require female therapists to violate typical female gender role expectations, which could be intimidating for some women. The authors use a clinical case study to demonstrate ways in which a young female therapist confronts her client ’s devaluing behaviors while working through her conflict...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - December 10, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Early Maladaptive Schemas and Cognitive Fusion on the Regulation of Psychological Needs
AbstractPrevious research had associated early maladaptive schemas, cognitive fusion and psychological needs. However, a deeper understanding of these relationships is needed regarding mediational effects of schemas on psychological needs and symptomatology. We aimed to explore the relationships between schema domains, cognitive fusion, psychological needs and symptoms.  Therefore a clinical sample composed of 58 individuals with psychiatric diagnosis, who filled self-reported questionnaires was reanalyzed on a cross-sectional design. Medium to strong correlations between schema domains and dialectical polarities of psych...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - December 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research