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The 6 Steps to Catalyze CBT and DBT With Young Patients

Psychiatric Times

SPECIAL REPORT: PSYCHOTHERAPY Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) are widely adapted treatment paradigms grounded in empirical findings, meta-analyses, and case reports. Concrete elements when supervising cognitive-behavioral therapy with youth. Persons JB.

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Integrating Redemption in Psychiatry, Part 3: A Nod to the Late Brian Wilson

Psychiatric Times

Colleagues who responded to my redemption query mentioned how redemption seems present without saying directly so in the work of the psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor Victor Frankl, 4 in the developing intervention of religion-adapted cognitive behavior therapy, 5 in forgiveness literature, in human flourishing, and compassion.

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AI Therapy: The Reality of an Instant Therapist 

Clear Behavioral Health

There are many reasons why people are beginning to accept AI therapy as a viable option to address their mental health issues. A study conducted in 2022 found that people generally have positive views when it comes to the use of AI in psychotherapy. These numbers increase when there is adequate human supervision of therapy chatbots.

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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

Mad in America

Even for severe depression, multiple studies have found that adding antidepressants to cognitive behavioral therapy does not result in better outcomes —psychotherapy alone is just as good in the short term. And therapy alone beats the drugs when it comes to long-term outcomes.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model.

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Study: Non-Medication Treatments for ADHD Not as Effective as Stimulants

ADDitude

cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) , neurofeedback, and relaxation therapy] benefited people with ADHD over longer periods. 2022, March 8). A small body of evidence suggested that non-medication treatment [i.e., Comparing the efficacy of stimulants for ADHD in children and adolescents using meta-analysis.

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Placebo Effect—Not Antidepressants—Responsible for Depression Improvement

Mad in America

Moncrieff has also been interviewed by Mad in America , and was the lead author on a 2022 study that put the final nail in the coffin of the chemical imbalance myth of depression. There were four treatment arms, including fluoxetine (Prozac) only; cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) only; fluoxetine and CBT; and placebo.