Status: Strong Research Support The main goal in stimulus control therapy is to reduce the anxiety or conditioned arousal individuals may feel when...
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Behavioral Weight Management
Basic premise: Eating and activity behaviors are reinforced by cues and consequences that can be internal (e.g., thoughts and feelings) or external...
Social Skills Training (SST) for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support SST uses the principles of behavior therapy to teach communication skills, assertiveness skills, and other skills...
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...
Social Learning/Token Economy Programs for Schizophrenia
Status: Strong Research Support Token economy programs are generally used in long-term care setting such as long-stay inpatient units 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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
Smoking Cessation with Weight Gain Prevention
Status: Modest Research Support Smoking Cessation with Weight Gain Prevention is a cognitive behavioral treatment that fosters tobacco cessation...
Self-System Therapy for Depression
Status: Modest Research Support Self-System Therapy (SST) is a brief, structured psychotherapy that is based on Higgin's (1997) regulatory focus...