Status: Modest Research Support Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) focuses on teaching illness self-management to persons with serious mental...
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Status: Information under development; update pending. Please refer to APA's Clinical Practice Guidelines for the treatment of PTSD. Description Eye...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...