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Valued Living Before and After CBT
In this study we examined whether cognitive behavioral therapy, without explicit values work, enhanced value-oriented action. We also explored the role of change in valued action for subsequent life satisfaction and continued change after therapy. Addi tionally, data on the reliability and validity of the Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ) are reported. We analyzed the pre-, post-, and 6-month-follow-up-data of 3687 patients of a university psychotherapy outpatient clinic, most of which suffered from reliably diagnosed anxiety and mood disorders. Q uestionnaires included the VLQ (with 10 items each on the “importance” a...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

David H. Rosmarin: Spirituality, Religion, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: A Guide for Clinicians
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

In Memoriam: Abraham W. Wolf, Ph.D.
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Patient-Made Videos as a Tool of Self-Observation Enhancing Self-Reflection in Psychotherapy
In this report, we describe the flow and functionality of the VideoTalk method through the case of a 24-year-old fem ale patient suffering from depression and social phobia. The self-mirroring from the video facilitates self-observations of the patient’s own facial expressions, voice and body posture. We hypothesize that this new information gradually changes emotional processing, leads to better self-awareness and strengthens more functional schemas. (Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy)
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Assessment of Mentalization: Measures for the Patient, the Therapist and the Interaction
We report here on a critical evaluation of measurement approaches commonly used to conceptualize and assess mentalization and argue for the value of conversation analysis (CA) as an alternative approach. A variety of approaches have been shown to have utility in assessing mentalization as an individual capacity. We illustrate how conversation analysis allows for an in-depth-analysis of mentalization as it is co-created across different contexts in real-life therapy sessions. This method of analysis shifts the focus from content to process. Conversation analysis is a potentially valuable tool to support training, to assess ...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Emotion-Focused Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Formulation
AbstractRecent years have seen the emergence of transdiagnostic psychotherapeutic treatments, typically targeting depression, anxiety and related disorders. The rationale for developing transdiagnostic protocols is based on a number of factors; shared etiology and maintenance mechanisms, high co-morbidity, hypothesising that discrete disorders may be underpinned by common psychological vulnerabilities, and the burden currently placed on clinicians to master multiple disorder-specific interventions. This paper describes a transdiagnostic model of emotion-focused therapy (EFT-T), which combines modular (targeting specific cl...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Rejection Sensitivity and Self-Regulation of Daily Interpersonal Events
AbstractThe present research case sought to illustrate how self-regulatory patterns of interpersonal behavior manifest within a rejection sensitive individual at the daily level. Cross-sectional research has demonstrated negative relational outcomes associated with rejection sensitivity, but less attention has been paid to how this manifests in daily relational events. Expanding upon prior research evaluating the daily interpersonal functioning of those with high rejection sensitivity in a large sample, the research case study of Mary demonstrates how findings from research may manifest within a rejection sensitive individ...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Resilience, Defense Mechanisms, and Implicit Emotion Regulation in Psychodynamic Child Psychotherapy
AbstractResilience is associated with the internal capacity for the regulation of unpleasant emotions in the face of adversity. These self-regulatory processes, linked with both explicit and implicit emotion regulation systems, have wide ranging implications for overall psychological health. Child psychotherapy can be conceptualized as helping children adapt more effectively to the external environment and develop a more comfortable sense of self as a result of improved emotion regulation and, thus, greater resilience. Most available treatments for youth promote resilience by addressing the explicit emotion regulation syst...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Schematic Functioning, Interpersonal Dysfunctional Cycles and Cognitive Fusion in the Complementary Paradigmatic Perspective: Analysis of a Clinical Sample
AbstractPrevious research has shown that transdiagnostic variables, such as dysfunctional schemata, interpersonal cycles, and cognitive fusion, are strongly related to psychological disorders and mental health. In this sense, this study sought to clarify, identify, and differentiate to what extentearly maladaptive schemas, interpersonal dysfunctional cycles, andcognitive fusion relate to each other and to determine what are their differential contributions to theregulation of psychological needs, well-being, psychological distress, andsymptomatology. For this purpose, we assessed a clinical group (n  = 58) and found st...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Therapists ’ Training and Their Attitudes Towards Therapy as Predictors of Therapeutic Interventions
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the therapist ’s attitudes in therapeutic matters are a better predictor of interventions employed than the therapeutic method in which the therapist was trained. The relationships between various types of psychotherapeutic intervention and both predictors were tested by means of Markov Chain Monte Carlo simula tions. A total of 162 therapy sessions conducted by 18 therapists affiliated to 6 different therapeutic methods were analyzed. The interventions were classified according to the criteria of essentiality and commonality. The analysis showed that 40% of the exam...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Relationship Between Client Regulatory Focus and Treatment Use Intentions, Attitudes, Credibility Beliefs, and Outcome Expectations for Psychotherapy
AbstractClient variables in psychotherapy have been shown to play an important role in psychotherapy, explaining a significant amount of variance in treatment engagement, the therapeutic alliance, and psychotherapy outcomes; however, little is known about how the client variables develop. Specifically, there may be internal characteristics of the client that underlie several client attitudinal variables that play a role in psychotherapy. The purpose of this study was to test one particular client internal characteristic (regulatory focus) as a predictor of the psychotherapy use intentions, attitudes, credibility beliefs, a...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

John C. Norcross and Gary R. VanderBos: Leaving It at the Office: A Guide to Psychotherapist ’s Self-Care (2nd ed.)
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - February 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Constructions of Nonagency in the Clients ’ Initial Problem Formulations at the Outset of Psychotherapy
AbstractThis multiple case study investigated how clients construct nonagentic positions when formulating their problems in the beginning of their first psychotherapy session. The initial problem formulations of nine clients entering psychotherapy were analyzed with a detailed model drawing on discursive methodology, the 10 Discursive Tools model (10DT). We found ten problem formulation categories, each one distinguished by the tool from the 10DT model primarily used to construct nonagency. All clients gave several problem formulations from different categories and constructed nonagentic positions with a variety of discurs...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - February 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Metacognitive Therapy in Patients with Tinnitus: a Single Group Study
AbstractTinnitus is often in comorbidity with anxiety and depression, and several authors have proposed a reduced efficiency of the top-down executive control in its perception. This single-group study describes a novel application of the metacognitive therapy (MCT), which works on a top-down engagement of proactive attentional control mechanisms on a group of patients with tinnitus, to see its impact on the perception of tinnitus and its anxiety and depression correlates. Eight metacognitive therapy group-sessions were proposed to a group of nine patients, as part of a regional project conducted at the University General ...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - February 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Murray, Christine, Pope, Amber, and Willis, Ben, Sexuality Counselling: Theory, Research, and Practice
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - January 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research