Psychological Treatments Archive (Chambless)

Status: Strong Research Support Motivational interviewing (MI) is a brief person-centered clinical method for strengthening clients' motivation for...

Status: Modest Research Support for depression Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) is a modification of the Klerman and Weisman...

Basic premise: Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive theory of depression proposes that persons susceptible to depression develop inaccurate/unhelpful core...

Basic premise: By accepting and learning to live with pain, one can limit the control it exerts over his or her life. Essence of therapy: This...

Basic premise: the manner in which people historically and currently cope with extant stressful events via effective social problem solving may...

Basic premise: Depression often follows changes in one’s interpersonal environment (e.g., struggle with a significant other, loss of a loved one)....

Basic premise: When people get depressed, they may increasingly disengage from their routines and withdraw from their environment. Over time, this...

Status: Strong Research Support for Mania Systematic care consists of a system-level intervention and a group therapy component. At the system...

Status: Modest Research Support In general, brief dynamic therapies for depression focus on increasing patients' awareness and insight about...

Status: Modest Research Support Self-System Therapy (SST) is a brief, structured psychotherapy that is based on Higgin's (1997) regulatory focus...

Status: Modest Research Support Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) is a form of CBT developed by Albert Ellis (Ellis, 1994). Like other...