... significant treatment challenges. Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy (MIT) targets core features of BPD, including metacognitive impairments and emotional dysregulation. This study used Latent Transition Analysis to assess changes in BPD symptoms and psychological factors over a 12-month MIT intervention...

..., global functioning, and quality of life. Results: Both treatments led to large reductions in PTSD symptoms, without significant differences after 1 year (p = 0.312, d = −0.23, 95% CI = −0.6, 0.1). Both treatments also yielded large and comparable reductions in BPD symptoms and improved quality of life...

... Loneliness Chronic loneliness Treatment Intervention Public health Loneliness, defined as a subjective and distressing feeling emerging from a perceived discrepancy between the desired and perceived quality or quantity of interpersonal relations [ 1 ], is a common and universal experience...

...Nina Dittmer; Ulrich Voderholzer; Claudia Mönch; Ulrich Cuntz; Corinna Jacobi; Sandra Schlegl Introduction: Treatment of compulsive exercise is recognized as a key unmet challenge in the treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN). To address this challenge, we developed the manualized group intervention...

... depression management need in routine care. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence, treatment rates, prognosis, and management need of clinical and subclinical depression in CHD patients according to the American Heart Association recommendations and the National Institute for Health and Care...

... level these deficits have been closely linked to impaired, yet treatment-sensitive, prefrontal regulatory control over the amygdala. Gaining direct control over these pathways could therefore provide an innovative and promising intervention to regulate exaggerated anxiety. To this end the current proof...

...Claudia Buntrock; David Ebert; Dirk Lehr; Heleen Riper; Filip Smit; Pim Cuijpers; Matthias Berking Background: Research on the effectiveness of treatments for subthreshold depression (sD) is still scarce. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of a web-based guided self-help intervention...

...Gemma Kok; Huibert Burger; Heleen Riper; Pim Cuijpers; Jack Dekker; Harm van Marwijk; Filip Smit; Aaron Beck; Claudi L.H. Bockting Background: Internet-based cognitive therapy with monitoring via text messages (mobile CT), in addition to treatment as usual (TAU), might offer a cost-effective way...

... disorder is frequently, but not invariably, present. General principles of treatment and specialist procedures are reviewed. 18 2 2010 © 1993 S. Karger AG, Basel 1993 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated...

... (PTSD) Parental killing Bereavement Children Murder Grief Adolescents Treatment Research 2nd Europ Confon Traumatic Stress Psychothcr Psychosom 1992:57:152-157 Dora Blacka Jean Harris-He. ndriksb Tony Kaplan* Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, and Royal Free Hospital. London: Chase Farm...

... to in the content or advertisements. Cardiac phobia Normal coronary arteries Psychological factors Follow-up studies Treatment Special Article Psychother Psychosom 1995;64:62-73 A. W. Ser/iea-b R A M. Erdmana h J. Passchiera R. W. Trijsburga F.J. ten Cateb a Department of Medical Psychology...

.... The present study attempted to examine the role of the patient-therapist relationship as well as other variables for dropout among eating disorder patients. Methods: Eating disorder patients and their therapists were assessed on a measure of treatment expectations previously developed by the author...

... medications targeting the serotonin system. In the current investigation, we examine HA as a potential mediator of treatment response to a serotonergic tricyclic antidepressant. Methods: Outpatients (n = 150) with MDD were randomized to receive clomipramine or a control treatment. Patients completed...

...Secondo Fassino; Giovanni Abbate-Daga; Andrea Pierò; Paolo Leombruni; Giovanni Giacomo Rovera Background: To explore the personality, psychopathology, and clinical features of bulimic patients who do not complete psychotherapy, within a combined treatment. Methods: 86 patients with bulimia nervosa...

... heart disease (p = 0.032). All the other clinical/instrumental parameters showed no relation with QoL (p > 0.150 in all cases). Conclusions: Objective indicators of disease severity, which largely determine physicians’ care, appear to have little bearing on QoL, suggesting that current treatment...

... at the start of treatment and assessed at every treatment session for credibility during panic attacks and during that session. The relation between the belief in CCMs and other measures of panic was also studied. Sixty-six patients rated their belief in 1–3 CCMs during treatment with cognitive therapy...

...Abraham Bakker; Philip Spinhoven; A.J. Willem van der Does; Anton J.L.M. van Balkom; Richard van Dyck Background: In this study the effects of treatment with cognitive therapy, antidepressants or pill-placebo on the locus of control orientation in panic disorder patients were analysed, as well...

... with agoraphobia a prodromal phase can be identified. Most patients report residual symptoms despite successful treatment. Residual symptoms upon remission have a prognostic value. There appears to be a relationship between residual and prodromal symptomatology (the rollback phenomenon). Appraisal of subclinical...

...Ilan Shimon; Shlomo Melmed Critical issues in diagnosis and treatment of pituitary disease are surveyed. The most relevant clinical aspects of hyperprolactinemia, acromegaly, Cushing’s disease, secondary hyperthyroidism, syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion, panhypopituitarism, growth hormone...

...Jambur Ananth Our ability to treat depression has improved with the availability of receptor-specific and chemically diverse groups of antidepressants. Even now, most of the short-term studies indicate that about 20% of depressed patients remain resistant to treatment. Therefore, it is important...