Status: Modest Research Support Biofeedback is a training technique that conveys information about a patients’ bodily functions that are typically...
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Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy for Depression
The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP; McCollough, 2000) is an integrative therapy for chronically depressed adults that...
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...
Motivational Interviewing, Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), and MET plus CBT for Mixed Substance Use/Dependence
Status: Strong Research Support Motivational interviewing (MI) is a brief person-centered clinical method for strengthening clients' motivation for...
Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) for Bipolar Disorder
Status: Modest Research Support for depression Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT) is a modification of the Klerman and Weisman...
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...
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...
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...