Status: Strong Research Support In relaxation-based treatments, patients are taught formal exercises focused on reducing somatic tension (e.g.,...
Psychological Treatments Archive (Chambless)
Filter Results
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Basic premise: A subset of individuals experience emotions more intensely than others. In order to regulate heightened emotions, they tend to react...
Schema-Focused Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Status: Modest Research Support Schema Focused-Therapy (SFT) is an integrative approach founded on the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy...
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Basic premise: Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) is attachment based and conceptualizes the negative, rigid interaction patterns and...
Biofeedback-Based Treatments for Insomnia
Status: Modest Research Support Biofeedback is a training technique that conveys information about a patients’ bodily functions that are typically...
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder Status: Strong Research Support What does this mean? Description Cognitive and...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for adult ADHD
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD Description Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for adult ADHD provides concrete strategies and skills...
Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorders
Behavioral Couples Therapy for Alcohol use Disorders (ABCT) is an outpatient treatment for individuals with alcohol use disorders and their intimate...
Paradoxical Intention for Insomnia
Status: Strong Research Support Paradoxical intention is a cognitive technique that consists of persuading a patient to engage in his or her most...
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
Status: Modest Research Support Mentalizing is the process by which we make sense of each other and ourselves, implicitly and explicitly, in terms...
Sleep Restriction Therapy for Insomnia
Status: Strong Research Support Sleep restriction therapy utilizes a form of systematic sleep deprivation in which a sleep window is established and...
Behavioral Weight Management
Basic premise: Eating and activity behaviors are reinforced by cues and consequences that can be internal (e.g., thoughts and feelings) or external...