Status: Modest Research Support In general, brief dynamic therapies for depression focus on increasing patients' awareness and insight about...
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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...
Supported Employment for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support Supported Employment (SE; also known as Individual Placement and Support) is an approach to vocational...
Social Skills Training (SST) for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support SST uses the principles of behavior therapy to teach communication skills, assertiveness skills, and other skills...
Social Learning/Token Economy Programs for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support Token economy programs are generally used in long-term care setting such as long-stay inpatient units and...
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...
Stimulus Control Therapy for Insomnia
Status: Strong Research Support The main goal in stimulus control therapy is to reduce the anxiety or conditioned arousal individuals may feel when...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain
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...