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...
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Problem-Solving Therapy for Depression
Basic premise: the manner in which people historically and currently cope with extant stressful events via effective social problem solving may...
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression
Basic premise: Depression often follows changes in one’s interpersonal environment (e.g., struggle with a significant other, loss of a loved one)....
Behavioral Activation for Depression
Basic premise: When people get depressed, they may increasingly disengage from their routines and withdraw from their environment. Over time, this...
Systematic Care for Bipolar Disorder
Status: Strong Research Support for Mania Systematic care consists of a system-level intervention and a group therapy component. At the system...
Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy for Depression
Status: Modest Research Support In general, brief dynamic therapies for depression focus on increasing patients' awareness and insight about...
Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Basic premise: Active and structured family involvement in the treatment of adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa significantly increases the...
Self-System Therapy for Depression
Status: Modest Research Support Self-System Therapy (SST) is a brief, structured psychotherapy that is based on Higgin's (1997) regulatory focus...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Binge Eating Disorder
Basic premise: Dietary restraint leads to binge eating, which leads to further dietary restraint. Thus, reducing dietary restriction via cognitive...
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Status: Modest Research Support Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) is a form of CBT developed by Albert Ellis (Ellis, 1994). Like other...
Psychoeducation for Bipolar Disorder
Status: Strong Research Support for mania and Modest Research Support for depression Psychoeducation treatment involves providing patients with...
Smoking Cessation with Weight Gain Prevention
Status: Modest Research Support Smoking Cessation with Weight Gain Prevention is a cognitive behavioral treatment that fosters tobacco cessation...