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Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Interventions for Psychosis
October 31st 2016Psychiatrists who treat patients with psychosis in institutional, community, and crisis settings provide evaluations and medication management, but rarely consider psychotherapeutic interventions. However, such interventions can be critical in recovery.
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Providing Culturally Competent Care: Understanding the Context of Psychosis
October 31st 2016Culture-the way people make meaning and live their lives in particular social worlds-matters in psychosis. The authors explore how a patient's cultural background should influence the way clinicians think about treatment and care.
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What Psychiatrists Need to Know About CBT for Personality Disorders
September 8th 2014A significant number of patients have some degree of personality pathology that can interfere with treatment, whether they receive medication or some form of psychotherapy. But how can clinicians develop a strong therapeutic alliance with patients who have personality disorders? An expert explains.
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Panic Disorder: Keys to Evidence-Based Effective Treatment
October 30th 2013Keys to the management of panic disorder include appropriate use of psychotropic medication and psychotherapy predicated on an understanding of the disorder's biopsychosocial underpinnings. Here, Stephen V. Sobel, MD, focuses on treatment options.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Escape From the Binds of Tight Methodology
July 30th 2013CBT has become rooted as proven dogma in the treatment of depression despite large problems remaining in methodology of CBT clinical trials and the logic behind how CBT works. This article will describe the major methodologic problems in the clinical trials of CBT.
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The Judaic Foundations of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
May 5th 2011See if you can tell if the following quote comes from religious wisdom or a CBT therapist: “To defeat depression, you must introduce a fresh perspective to your thinking. You must begin to replace troubling, destructive thoughts with positive, constructive ones.” To this, we say, “Amen.”
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