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Recovery in bipolar disorders: Experienced therapists ’ view of their patients’ struggles and efforts when facing a severe mental illness.
The aim of this study was to explore how experienced therapists view recovery in bipolar disorders. In what ways do professionals conceptualize and give meaning to processes of healing and growth? How do they experience working with their patients toward recovery? We conducted 12 semistructured interviews and analyzed the resulting transcripts, following a hermeneutical –phenomenological approach. The study was developed within a reflexive–collaborative framework, in which a group of service users participated as coresearchers in designing the study, developing the interview guide, and analyzing the data. This collabor...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Veseth, Marius; Binder, Per-Einar; Borg, Marit; Davidson, Larry Source Type: research

Testing the impact of Key Strategies Training for Individual Psychotherapy on understanding, confidence, and intention to use skills in practice.
This study represents a preliminary test of the impact of Key Strategies Training for Individual Psychotherapy (KST-IP), a new method of integrative training for graduate psychology students. Trainees received 8 weeks of training, introducing them to practical skills designed to explore and transform thoughts, feelings, and actions. A total of 24 skills were taught; 4 skills for exploration and 4 skills for transformation for each of 3 theoretical models: cognitive, emotion-focused, and behavioral. After receiving KST-IP, trainees reported increased understanding, confidence, and intention to use skills drawn from all 3 th...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - September 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Harris, Jeff E.; Maddoux, John A.; Stretcher, Amanda L. Source Type: research

Transtheoretic transdiagnostic psychotherapy.
This article aims to show how a bio ↔psychology network (BPN) explanatory system that gives rise to an applied psychological science (APS) clinical orientation supports an approach to psychotherapy that is both transtheoretic and transdiagnostic. Clinical orientations are broader than the underlying theories that authorize them and are therefore easier to unify theoretically. The cognitive, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and psychodynamic clinical orientations are already unified in that they all lack mechanism information that can explain how they work. None can explain how we learn and form memories. The brain is a ...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - September 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tryon, Warren W. Source Type: research

Client perceptions of corrective experiences in cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing for generalized anxiety disorder: An exploratory pilot study.
Percepciones de clientes sobre experiencias correctivas en la terapia cognitiva-conductual y la entrevista motivacional para el trastorno de ansiedad generalizada: Un estudio piloto exploratorioEl objetivo del estudio presente fue explorar cualitativamente los reportes pos-terapia de clientes luego de experiencias correctivas – un factor común propuesto y principio integrativo de la terapia de cambio (Castonguay& Hill, 2012) – luego de completar terapia cognitiva-conductual breve (CBT, por sus siglas en inglés) o entrevista motivacional (MI, por sus siglas en inglés) integrada con CBT (MI-CBT) para trastornos de ans...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - August 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Khattra, Jasmine; Angus, Lynne; Westra, Henny; Macaulay, Christianne; Moertl, Kathrin; Constantino, Michael Source Type: research

Teaching behavioral medicine professionals and trainees an elaborated version of the Y-Model: Implications for the integration of cognitive –behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, and motivational interviewing.
The Y-Model is used to teach evidence-based psychotherapy to mental health care trainees. We adapt the Y-Model to help teach psychotherapy to providers in medical settings (e.g., physicians, nurses, dietitians, physical therapists, etc.). This elaboration of the Y-Model aids educators to help learners overcome multiple barriers that inherently exist as new psychotherapy concepts are being assimilated in medical settings. The stem of the Y-Model represents foundational therapeutic principles and techniques common to all psychotherapy approaches. One branch of the Y-Model represents cognitive –behavioral therapy (CBT) tech...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - August 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ramezani, Amir; Rockers, Daniel M.; Wanlass, Richard L.; McCarron, Robert M. Source Type: research

Psychotherapy integration: Research, practice, and training at the leading edge.
The psychotherapy field is devoting considerable attention to (a) elucidating and harnessing intervention mechanisms, (b) adopting a dimensional approach to assessment and treatment personalization through measurement-based care, and (c) studying the implementation of evidence-based practices. Given these foci, as well as the inherent complexities embedded in them, psychotherapy integration will continue to play a critical role in the field’s progress. In this article, I assert that an integrative approach has and will continue to be at the leading edge of psychotherapy research, practice, and training. To illustrate thi...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychotherapy integration: Research, practice, and training at the leading edge.
La integraci ón psicoterapéutica: estudios, práctica, y el entrenamiento en la vanguardia El campo de la psicoterapia ha dedicado considerable atención a (a) elucidar y utilizar mecanismos de intervención, (b) adoptar un enfoque dimensional para la personalización de evaluación y tratamiento por el cuidad o basado en medición, y (c) estudiar la implementación de prácticas basadas en evidencia. Dado estos objetivos y sus inherentes complejidades, la integración psicoterapéutica va seguir teniendo un rol crítico en el progreso de la psicoterapia. En este artículo, yo afirmo que un enfoque integr ado es y contin...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Boswell, James F. Source Type: research

Anger and social fragmentation: The Evil Violence Tunnel.
This article discusses (a) the dynamics of the Evil Violence Tunnel, (b) precursors and triggers of the tunnel, (c) stages of the tunnel, (d) case vignettes, and (e) possible ways to prevent it. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved);愤 怒和社会分裂: 邪恶暴力隧道 巴哈马与该区域许多国家一样, 由于1980年代广泛的可卡因流行／泛滥和持续的后遗症／遗患以及重大的国际金融衰退, 已经经历了严重的社会分化过程 。 快速增长的的谋杀率和暴力犯罪率显示, 社会 分裂与广泛的愤怒的爆发以及家庭和社区的破坏相关...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Allen, David; Bethell, Keva; Allen-Carroll, Marie Source Type: research

Divergence and convergence: An examination of cognitive–behavioral and dynamic therapies, theoretical and clinical perspectives.
Meta-analytic research has highlighted the clinical similarity in outcome between psychodynamic and cognitive–behavioral therapies (Leichsenring, 2001; Stiles, Barkham, Mellor-Clark, & Connell, 2008), yet patients’ understanding of the 2 therapies is qualitatively different (Nilsson, Svensson, Sandell, & Clinton, 2007). Through common mechanistic factors exemplified in the pioneering works of Aaron Beck, Steven Hayes, Keith Dobson, Hanna Segal, Peter Fonagy, and Donald Winnicott, among others, this article discusses the theoretical convergence of cognitive and psychodynamic therapy through the aid of illuminative clini...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Integrative research for integrative practice: A plea for respectful collaboration across clinician and researcher roles.
In recent decades, the field of psychology has experienced a kind of continental drift, resulting in a widening segregation between subdisciplines and schools of thought. The ever-increasing daily demands of the academic scientist and the practicing clinician provide scarce time for members of one group to maintain exposure to and understanding of the other. As this divide continues to grow, systemic group dynamics can develop, silently creating more distance in the best cases, and fostering unproductive contempt in the worst. In this article, I elaborate on this perceived estrangement and propose ways to reverse the divid...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Knowing-in-relation: How experienced therapists integrate different sources of knowledge in actual clinical practice.
Saber en Relaci ón: La Manera en la cual Terapeutas con Experiencia Integran Diferentes Fuentes de Sabiduría en su Práctica Clínica El presente artículo elabora los conceptos de la integración de la psicoterapia abarcando el problema desde la perspectiva de la actividad del terapeuta en las sesiones de terapi a. También se lleva a cabo un análisis de información cualitativa sobre el comportamiento durante la sesión y reflexiones posttratamiento de terapeutas con un alto nivel de experiencia y pluralistamente informados. El concepto de “saber en relación” surgió como método para representar la integración ...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oddli, Hanne Weie; McLeod, John Source Type: research

Integration and clinical demonstration of active ingredients of short-term psychodynamic therapy for depression.
Integraci ón y Demostración Clínica de los Ingredientes Activos de la Terapia Psicodinámica a Corto Plazo para la DepresiónLa terapia psicodinámica para la depresión ha recibido mucho apoyo científico en los últimos años, y hoy en día puede designarse como efectiva (Leichsenring, Leweke, Klein,& Steinert, 2015). A pesar de que la teor ía psicodinámica y la terapia son extensamente usadas clínicamente, los protocolos empíricos de la terapia psicodinámica siguen sin ser predominantes en el trabajo clínico cotidiano. Hasta los últimos años, no han habido intentos sistemáticos para integrar los elementos ce...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Leibovich, Liat; Zilcha-Mano, Sigal Source Type: research

Redefining the future of SEPI: Member characteristics, integrative practices, and organizational satisfactions.
This article summarizes those results and provides both a contemporary picture of the SEPI membership and, when possible, an historical comparison with the results of a similar 1996 study. The emerging picture is of an increasingly demographically and internationally diverse association (53% women, 39% non-U.S. members) of mental health professionals employed in university settings and independent practices. Psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive– behavioral theories most influenced respondents’ integrative practices. The most frequent subtypes of integration were assimilative integration, theoretical integration, an...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - July 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Norcross, John C.; Nolan, Bryan M.; Kosman, Dana C.; Fern ández-Alvarez, Hector Source Type: research

Guidelines for reflective practice in psychotherapy: A reflection on the benefits of combining moment-by-moment and phase-by-phase mapping in clinical decision making.
This article intends to highlight the importance of re flective practice, explore the benefits of integrating moment-by-moment and phase-by-phase guiding principles while thinking through and intervening in our cases, and offer psychotherapists of any persuasion guidelines for a reflective practice based on this integration. Reflective practice includes both careful observation of patient’s responses, and the use of such data to consider choices that might lead to greater attunement and more successful therapy. The integration of moment-by-moment and phase-by-phase maps, by allowing coordination between a more micro and ...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ferreira, Joana F.; Basseches, Michael; Vasco, Ant ónio B. Source Type: research

Integrative psychotherapy of patients with schizophrenic spectrum disorders: The case of a musician suffering from psychotic episodes.
Psychotherapy of patients suffering from schizophrenic disorders remains controversial. There are promising descriptions of treatments, and some empirical studies show that different forms of psychotherapy are effective. However, there are few models to combine different psychotherapeutic strategies in a comprehensive way. Here we propose a model of integrative psychotherapy that is based on the therapeutic alliance and the general principles of understanding and communication. It comprises cognitive –behavioral, psychodynamic, and existential elements. These aspects are applied hermeneutically to the narrative of a case...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Holm-Hadulla, Rainer Matthias; Koutsoukou-Argyraki, Asimina Source Type: research