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...
Transference-Focused Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Status: Strong/Controversial Research Support Transference-Focused Therapy (TFP) focuses on revealing the underlying causes of a patient's...
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...
Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Basic premise: Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive theory of depression proposes that persons susceptible to depression develop inaccurate/unhelpful core...
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...
Psychological Debriefing for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Status: No Research Support/Treatment is Potentially Harmful Psychological debriefing is a formal version of providing emotional and psychological...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Basic premise: The underlying premise assumes that patients with OCD experience distorted, dysfunctional thoughts about themselves, the world, and...
Supported Employment for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support Supported Employment (SE; also known as Individual Placement and Support) is an approach to vocational...
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 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...
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...