Basic premise: Eating and activity behaviors are reinforced by cues and consequences that can be internal (e.g., thoughts and feelings) or external...
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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...
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...
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...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression
Basic premise: Clients learn to re-conceptualize avoided or feared thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations in an adaptive manner....
Emotion Focused Therapy for Depression
Basic premise: Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) for depression builds on Greenberg’s (2004) more general process-experiential approach that was...
Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Basic premise: Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive theory of depression proposes that persons susceptible to depression develop inaccurate/unhelpful core...