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A CAT envelope to deliver EMDR: Cognitive analytic therapy around eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
Two psychological therapy approaches are outlined: cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Substantial benefits are to be gained, particularly for patients with complex interpersonal trauma, in combining the 2; providing EMDR within the CAT envelope. This synthesis harnesses the benefits of a CAT reformulation framework of understanding and a proven CAT therapeutic approach generally with the well-established therapeutic efficacy and expediency of EMDR. An overview of each single approach is given, followed by the rationale and the main benefits and limitations of the comb...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 26, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darongkamas, Jurai; Kiely, Brian; Walker, Mark J. Source Type: research

A clinical science approach to training first year clinicians to navigate therapeutic relationships.
We describe how we have used the principles of the clinical science perspective to develop a training model for graduate students emphasizing therapeutic relationships within the context of collaborative assessment and relational/interpersonal psychodynamic therapy. We use a case example to illustrate how our training model engages students in understanding and using the therapeutic relationship as a mechanism for change within treatments. We demonstrate how we have implemented this training model within the context of a clinical science program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A clinical science approach to training first year clinicians to navigate therapeutic relationships.
We describe how we have used the principles of the clinical science perspective to develop a training model for graduate students emphasizing therapeutic relationships wi thin the context of collaborative assessment and relational/interpersonal psychodynamic therapy. We use a case example to illustrate how our training model engages students in understanding and using the therapeutic relationship as a mechanism for change within treatments. We demonstrate how we have implemented this training model within the context of a clinical science program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved);培养一年级...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Levendosky, Alytia A.; Hopwood, Christopher J. Source Type: research

Psychologists ’ perceptions of the importance of common factors in psychotherapy for successful treatment outcomes.
Research has extensively identified common factors and their contribution to successful psychotherapeutic outcomes. However, there are various inconsistencies in the literature and much debate regarding their importance and role in therapy. As such, in this study, we examined the extent to which different common factors are important in psychotherapy from the clinicians ’ perspective. Sixteen common factors were identified from a previous literature synthesis and consensual process method. Participants were expert psychologists (N = 21; 13 females) with an average of 23 years of experience providing psychotherapy. Partic...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stamoulos, Constantina; Trepanier, Lyane; Bourkas, Sophia; Bradley, Stacy; Stelmaszczyk, Kelly; Schwartzman, Deborah; Drapeau, Martin Source Type: research

Emotional processes in borderline personality disorder: An update for clinical practice.
Despite prior assumptions about poor prognosis, the surge in research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) over the past several decades shows that it is treatable and can have a good prognosis. Prominent theories of BPD highlight the importance of emotional dysfunction as core to this disorder. However, recent empirical research has suggested a more-nuanced view of emotional dysfunction in BPD. This research is reviewed in the present article, with a view toward how these laboratory-based findings can influence clinical work with individuals suffering from BPD. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserv...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 13, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Convergence in psychotherapy supervision: A common factors, common processes, common practices perspective.
Trans-theoretical and common factors supervision literature is quite limited. Although supervision similarities may be readily recognized, articulated trans-theoretical and common factors perspectives are rare (Bernard & Goodyear, 2014). Yet I contend that all psychotherapy supervision is most fundamentally guided by a nomological network of binding commonalities that foremost enlivens and invigorates, directs and determines supervisory action. In what follows, I identify 50 (nonexhaustive) commonalities, shared by any and all supervision perspectives, that cut across at least 9 practice-impacting areas: Supervisee charact...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Convergence in psychotherapy supervision: A common factors, common processes, common practices perspective.
Convergencia en la supervisi ón de psicoterapia: Una perspectiva de factores comunes, procesos comunes y prácticas comunes La literatura sobre la supervisión transteórica y de factores comunes es limitada. A pesar de que las similitudes en supervisión son reconocidas, no es común ver perspectivas transteóricas y de facto res comunes siendo bien expresadas (Bernard& Goodyear, 2014). Sin embargo, yo afirmo que la supervisi ón de psicoterapia es guiada fundamentalmente por una rede nomológica de los aspectos comunes vinculantes que ilumina y revigoran, dirigen y determinan la acción del supervisor. En el resto del m...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 9, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Watkins Jr., C. Edward Source Type: research

Therapist use of specific and nonspecific strategies across two affect-focused psychotherapies for depression: Role of adherence monitoring.
This study used the Collaborative Study Psychotherapy Rating Scale (CSPRS) to evaluate therapist use of both specific and nonspecific techniques in 2 affect-focused ESTs for depression. Blinded raters evaluated 180 recorded sessions of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and brief supportive psychotherapy (BSP). Because IPT and BSP both emphasize attention to affective states and developing a warm therapy relationship, we expected overlap across scales measuring therapist warmth, empathy, and focus on feelings. In contrast, we expected differences in scales measuring therapist directiveness, as well as IPT- and BSP-specific ...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Growing through pain: An integrative approach to treating chronic pain and emotional distress.
This article examines the process of integrating existential and psychodynamic-informed aspects of treatment with cognitive–behavioral therapy by highlighting the critical importance of validating and normalizing emotional dist ress, encountering existential anxieties, and engaging authentically with resistance, enactment, and transference–countertransference reactions in the “here-and-now” of the therapy relationship. Through clinical vignettes, I show how an integrative approach to treatment facilitated the develop ment of affective awareness and expression, self-differentiation and identity-formation, and the ex...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - June 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Coren, Sidney Source Type: research

Wise additions bridge the gap between social psychology and clinical practice: Cognitive-behavioral therapy as an exemplar.
Progress in clinical science, theory, and practice requires the integration of advances from multiple fields of psychology, but much integration remains to be done. The current article seeks to address the specific gap that exists between basic social psychological theories and the implementation of related therapeutic techniques. We propose several “wise additions,” based upon the principles outlined by Walton (2014), intended to bridge current social psychological research with clinical psychological therapeutic practice using cognitive-behavioral therapy as an example. We consider how recent advances in social psych...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - May 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An integrative theory of psychotherapy: Research and practice.
A dual-process personality theory and supporting research are presented. The dual processes comprise an experiential system and a rational system. The experiential system is an adaptive, associative learning system that humans share with other higher-order animals. The rational system is a uniquely human, primarily verbal, reasoning system. It is assumed that when humans developed language they did not abandon their previous ways of adapting, they simply added language to their experiential system. The 2 systems are assumed to operate in parallel and are bidirectionally interactive. The validity of these assumptions is sup...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - April 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Epstein, Seymour; Epstein, Martha L. Source Type: research

Psychological flexibility, attachment style, and personality organization: Correlations between constructs of differing approaches.
Psychological flexibility is a theoretical construct associated with acceptance and commitment therapy, a “third wave” cognitive–behavioral therapy treatment focusing on mindfulness and acceptance of aversive internal events. Psychological flexibility has been thoroughly investigated in clinical and nonclinical populations. However, very little research has been done pertaining to the possible relationships between psychological flexibility and attachment style. Similarly, there is no research investigating the potential link between psychological flexibility and constructs associated with a psychodynamic formulation...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - April 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perceived control and mindfulness: Implications for clinical practice.
A broad range of studies conducted over the past 50 years suggest that perceived control is an important construct to physical health and psychological well-being. When people feel that they can exert control, they demonstrate better immune responses, cardiovascular functioning, physical strength, increased longevity, increased life satisfaction, and decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms. The authors discuss how perceived control can be understood through lens of mindfulness without meditation. In this framework, mindfulness is defined as the act of noticing new things, a process that promotes flexible responding to th...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pagnini, Francesco; Bercovitz, Katherine; Langer, Ellen Source Type: research

Combining Cognitive Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for depression: A manualized group therapy.
Cognitive Therapy (CT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) have different philosophical tenets. CT targets the form and frequency of mental experiences, whereas ACT focuses on the context of thoughts and feelings. Integrating both approaches in a single therapy may prove beneficial because clients are offered greater flexibility and a vaster repertoire of strategies. In the combined therapy, we offer clients guidelines that explain when change-oriented techniques (e.g., cognitive restructuring) may be more effective and when acceptance techniques (e.g., defusion) may be more effective. This combined treatment may b...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hallis, Leandra; Cameli, Luisa; Dionne, Frédérick; Knäuper, Bärbel Source Type: research

Common therapeutic change principles as “sensitizing concepts”: A key perspective in psychotherapy integration and clinical research.
In this article, we discuss the role of common therapeutic change principles in psychotherapy practice and clinical research. Elaborating on a recent debate between Hoffart and Hoffart (2014a, 2014b) and Goldfried (2014) in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration regarding the scientific status of general therapy change principles, we discuss focal questions of psychotherapy integration, addressing (a) the relationship between general change principles, specific techniques, and clinical theory, and the status of scientific evidence in the realm of psychotherapy integration; (b) the function of clinical theories; and (c) t...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oddli, Hanne Weie; Nissen-Lie, Helene A.; Halvorsen, Margrethe Seeger Source Type: research