Basic premise: Clients learn to re-conceptualize avoided or feared thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations in an adaptive manner....
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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...
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...
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...
Supported Employment for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support Supported Employment (SE; also known as Individual Placement and Support) is an approach to vocational...
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...