Reviews studies of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, and social phobia. Sees CBT as consistently more effective than waiting-list and placebo control groups. Notes that cognitive change may be strong predictor of treatment outcome but that such change may be produced…

Sees cognitive therapy as promising psychosocial intervention for treatment of depression. Notes that, although cognitive therapy appears to be at least equal to alternative interventions with respect to acute treatment and there are indications that it may reduce risk of symptom return after treatment termination, design limitations reduce…

Used archival records to compare therapy process in 30 brief psychodynamic and 32 cognitive-behavioral therapies. Analyses of verbatim transcripts of 186 treatment sessions demonstrated that, although some features were common to both treatments, there were important differences. Identified what types of processes led to patient improvement in…

Reviews use of cognitive therapy (CT) for depression compared to use of tricyclic pharmacotherapy in nonbipolar outpatients. Suggests that CT may be roughly comparable in treatment of the acute episode, combined CT-pharmacotherapy does not appear to be clearly superior to either modality, and CT treatment during the acute episode may reduce the…

The term "rehabilitation" is inappropriate for offenders, implying restoration to a prior good condition. Instead, the socialization process must help them learn a new set of concepts and values regarding human beings that can truly habilitate them to becoming members of society. (SK)

Investigated extent to which cognitive-behavioral therapy can be used successfully in treatment of secondary depressed panic patients. Findings from eight panic patients with major depression and seven panic patients without major depression showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy was significantly superior to information-based therapy in…

Investigated psychosocial treatment for 47 children with anxiety disorders, comparing cognitive-behavioral treatment with wait-list condition. Evaluated outcomes using child self-report, parent report, teacher report, cognitive assessment, and behavioral observations. Found that many treated subjects were without diagnosis at posttest and at…

Examined relationship of patient (n=32) pretreatment interpersonal functioning to therapeutic alliance. On basis of interpersonal circumplex interpretation, results generally indicated that friendly submissive interpersonal problems were positively related to development of aspects of alliance and that hostile-dominant problems were negatively…

Drawing on social constructionism, presents a clinical model for mental health counseling called solution-focused counseling (SFC). SFC is distinguished from rational emotive behavior therapy in that SFC is presented as a process or framework for change rather than as a content to be learned. (EMK)

Bibliotherapy is presented as a strategy for cocreating therapeutic metaphors with clients. The use of these metaphors for promoting both first and second order change is enhanced when the metaphor is processed using Developmental Counseling and Therapy (DCT). Case examples are included to illustrate the combined use of these techniques. (Author)

Discusses the similarities between Kuhn's essay about scientific revolutions and Popper's idea of falsification. Assesses Kuhn's contribution to the theory of naturalism. (Author/CCM)

DETOUR and Turning Point are programs directed toward restructuring offenders' criminal thinking errors. Results indicate a lower incidence of disciplinary cases for program completers and those with whom they came into contact as they practiced techniques learned in the programs. (JOW)

It has been shown that schizophrenics have certain difficulties in the processing of semantic context. These difficulties have usually been evaluated using lexical decision tasks with semantic priming. In this study, we chose to examine the idea of an abnormality in the early stages of semantic context processing in thought-disordered…

Historically, people with learning disabilities have had little or no access to psychotherapeutic interventions, although there are signs that, over the past decade, this situation has seen some gradual improvement. This paper provides an overview of the evidence for the effectiveness of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural and cognitive therapies…

Despite the importance placed on completion of extra-session homework in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a review of the available literature suggests there is much about the nature of homework compliance that remains to be empirically evaluated. This is especially true among youth receiving CBT. The present study begins to address how best to…