Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a behavioral therapy that is based on Relational Frame Theory, a theory of how human language influences...
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Binge Eating Disorder
Status: Strong Research Support Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for binge eating disorder is based on an intervention originally developed for the...
Healthy-Weight Program for Bulimia Nervosa
Status: Controversial The Healthy Weight Program for bulimia nervosa consists of six sessions designed to help the patient engage in weight control...
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...
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...
Family-Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Basic premise: Active and structured family involvement in the treatment of adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa significantly increases the...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Binge Eating Disorder
Basic premise: Dietary restraint leads to binge eating, which leads to further dietary restraint. Thus, reducing dietary restriction via cognitive...
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...
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...