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Mark Berthold-Losleben, Marianne Liebing-Wilson, and John S. Swan: The ABCs of CBASP: A Guide to the Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy for Therapists and Supervisors
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Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - July 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A Cross-Cultural Conceptual Comparison of Behavioral Activation and Ikigai
AbstractCultural bridging may alleviate and catalyze the therapeutic process and help to match therapeutic interventions and patient preferences. In this article, we propose to enhance Western-originated prevention and treatment of depression (behavioral activation) with an Eastern-originated cultural concept of the purpose of living (ikigai).Behavioral activation (BA) is an effective standard method (within cognitive-behavior therapy) to treat depression, whereasikigai is a Japanese life philosophy attitude. Both approaches share the fundamental idea that the reflection of personal values guides the individual ’s everyd...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - July 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Consensus on Alliance Quality in the Psychotherapeutic Dyad and Its Differentiating Effect on Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Adjustment Disorders
AbstractThe study aimed to analyze patient –therapist convergence in therapeutic alliance ratings. The author also tested if increasing patient–therapist consensus on alliance quality during psychotherapy was related to better treatment outcomes. The study included 20 patients and one psychotherapist, who was a person other than the rese archer in this study. The patients, suffering from adjustment disorders, were undergoing individual outpatient treatment in private practice. Three estimations of alliance and two estimations of treatment outcomes were performed. Psychotherapeutic processes, lasting nearly a year and a...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - July 3, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Lethal Means Counseling for Suicidal Firearm Owners
AbstractThe death of a patient by suicide is one of the professional events most feared by psychotherapists and firearms are the most commonly used means of suicide. However, as the number of firearm owners within the United States has increased in recent years, so has the risk of firearm-related suicides. Suicidal patients with easy access to their firearms may give in to the wish to die and end their life with little opportunity for reflection or forethought. Furthermore, because the topic of gun control has become so polarized, patients may not always be open to discussing barriers between themselves and their firearms....
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - June 9, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reawakening Hope in the Psychotherapy for Psychosis
AbstractHope is known to be a crucial factor that can facilitate recovery from psychosis. In contrast, hopelessness has been associated with a variety of poor outcomes for people with psychosis, such as low self-esteem, depression, and suicide. While hope is central to recovery, the concept of hope can be challenging to identify and define. Furthermore, little is known about how psychotherapists can help people with psychosis reawaken a sense of hope that enables them to recover and lead meaningful lives with a severe mental illness. In this paper, the concept of hope is explored based on a selective review of the psycholo...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - June 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An Introduction to Change in Psychotherapy: Moderators, Course of Change, and Change Mechanisms
AbstractThis overview addresses for whom and under what conditions psychotherapy produces change, the course of change over sessions, and why change happens. Specifically, the most confirmed moderators are pretreatment symptoms level, readiness for change, assertiveness, agency, defense maturity, quality of object relationships, mentalization, and interpersonal functioning. Regarding the course of change, processual models better describe change than stage ones, capturing its nonlinear and time-embedded nature. Moreover, trajectories of change describe different classes of change by clients (i.e., from three to five) and m...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - June 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Integrating Intersectionality into Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
This article illustrates the integration of an intersectionality-informed framework within psychodynamic psychotherapy using Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP) as an exemplar. TLDP is a contemporary evidence-based relational psychodynamic therapy that focuses on illuminating and changing intrapersonal-interpersonal cycles of behavior that are presumed to underly psychological problems. After presenting an overview of the intersectionality concept and its broad applications within psychology and psychotherapy, emerging applications of an intersectional framework in psychodynamic psychotherapy are described. A synopsi...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - June 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Collusion Revisited: A Narrative Review of Dyadic Collusions
AbstractCollusion is a specific and potentially harmful transference-countertransference interaction. At its core is an unconscious, unresolved issue shared by two or more participants, who are interlocked in a defensive maneuver. The issue at stake, which is avoided at the intrapsychic level, externalized, and circulating in the interpersonal space, may pertain to control, intimacy, loss, or domination, among other possibilities.  Collusion occurs not only in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychiatry, and medicine but also in couples and both within and between groups. This critical narrative review is based on a compre...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - June 2, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An Evolutionarily Oriented Therapy for Autistic Adolescents with Extraordinary Skills: A Two-Case Series
AbstractRecent studies have suggested that one in ten persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder have extraordinary skills. This condition, often described as savant syndrome, may be associated with high psychosocial distress. The goal of this cases series is to present a novel form of therapy for adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder —level 1 reporting extraordinary skills. Two female late adolescents were treated with an integrative form of psychotherapy (evolutionary systems therapy) that was previously tested on young adults with severe detachment even in presence of extraordinary skills. The prima...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - May 31, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Revisiting the Origins of EMDR
AbstractFrancine Shapiro, the founder of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), reported that the therapeutic use of eye movement patterns was discovered by chance while walking in a park. An alternative accounting for the origins of EMDR comes from research that demonstrates individuals are unable to perceive their own eye movements and from historical sources that document Shapiro ’s acceptance of Neuro-Linguistic Programming theory on eye movement patterns and super-achievers. The present paper brings together this diverse set of findings to provide a more accurate context within which Shapiro’s purpo...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - May 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Current Tensions and Challenges in Mindfulness Research and Practice
AbstractThe field of mindfulness practice and research has expanded over recent years and become more established in the public consciousness. In this paper we explore four key tensions for the mindfulness community to hold in awareness. These include:Mindfulness for me vs. mindfulness for others (an awareness of the loss of the spiritual and collective elements historically essential to mindfulness),Mindfulness for some vs. mindfulness for all (understanding why mindfulness may be more appealing for some more than others),The whole vs. the sum of its parts (the need to understand the mechanisms of mindfulness and still pr...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - May 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Coping with Transitions: A Promising Intensive Outpatient DBT Program for Emerging Adults and Their Families
AbstractEmerging adulthood is a period of significant exploration, transformation, variability, and growth. Simultaneously, this developmental period presents unique challenges as emerging adults work to achieve developmental milestones including self-identity formation, the establishment of long-term intimate relationships, career advancement, and independence from parents. For those who are vulnerable, this period is also marked by the development of significant mental health problems and associated impairment, which prevents individuals from successfully reaching these developmental milestones. To address the various ch...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - May 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Celebrating the Most Valuable Publications from 2022: The 6th Annual Psyche Awards for Excellence in Scholarship
AbstractMany useful articles are published every year, and these scholarly works can help to improve and advance the field of psychotherapy. However, as the field has grown and the number of academic journals has expanded, it has become difficult for the average mental health professional to remain abreast of the best publications in the field. The present article provides a concise review of the published literature that is relevant to the field of psychotherapy. The rationale behind the 12 criteria that were used for selecting the most valuable papers are described. The nomination process initially identified 48 of the m...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - April 19, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Accepting the Challenges of Employment and Self-Sufficiency (DBT-ACES) Strategies into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
AbstractDBT-ACES (Dialectical Behavior Therapy —Accepting the Challenges of Employment and Self-Sufficiency) is an expansion and adaptation of Standard DBT developed to assist clients to achieve their employment, social, and financial independence goals. This paper provides an overview of several DBT-ACES strategies and considerations for thei r use in standard CBT as well as DBT treatment settings to increase employment among clients with significant emotion dysregulation difficulties including borderline personality disorder. These novel strategies include conceptualizing specific Recovery Goals, tracking Normative Pro...
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - March 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Self-injury Functions, Romantic Relationship Stress, and Suicide Attempts in Adolescents
This study suggests targeting these distinct interpersonal factors will help to identify high-risk youth who may go on to attempt suicide. (Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy)
Source: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy - January 24, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research