Psychological Treatments Archive (Chambless)

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...

Status: Strong Research Support for mania and Modest Research Support for depression Psychoeducation treatment involves providing patients with...

Basic premise: Clients learn to re-conceptualize avoided or feared thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations in an adaptive manner....