Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  The design was ambitious: 439 adolescents (age 12—17) with major depressive disorder were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Prozac (chemical name, Fluoxetine) along with cognitive therapy, Prozac alone, cognitive therapy alone, or placebo.37 Treatment lasted twelve weeks and took place at thirteen academic and community settings between the years
2000 and 2003. Those receiving drugs were monitored six times; cognitive therapy "designed to restructure the negative thought patterns typical of depression," took place in fifteen sessions. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts |  In the treatment of moderate depression, cognitive therapy can be as effective as the use of antidepressant drugs, and there is a lower risk of relapse—the return of depression—with cognitive therapy. One reason is that cognitive therapy teaches people practical skills they can use to combat depression any time, anywhere, every day for the rest of their lives. cognitive therapy has proven especially effective in helping adolescents with type 1 diabetes deal with their disease, leading to improvements in both mood and blood sugar control. |
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See book keywords and concepts | | Lackner, director of the behavioral medicine clinic and assistant professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine, assigned 59 patients to either a 10-week course of cognitive therapy, a four-week course, or a wait list.
Both the short and long cognitive therapy sessions included the same information, but the short course had a self-study workbook developed specifically for the study. | | Short courses of cognitive therapy or hypnosis can alleviate the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for the estimated
15% of adult Americans who have this disorder, according to several recent studies.
THE FIRST STUDY
In one study, Jeffrey M. Lackner, director of the behavioral medicine clinic and assistant professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine, assigned 59 patients to either a 10-week course of cognitive therapy, a four-week course, or a wait list. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts | | One reason is that cognitive therapy teaches people practical skills they can use to combat depression any time, anywhere, every day for the rest of their lives. cognitive therapy has proven especially effective in helping adolescents with type 1 diabetes deal with their disease, leading to improvements in both mood and blood sugar control.5
Mental health specialists trained in cognitive therapy seek to change the way the depressed person consciously thinks about failure, defeat, loss, and helplessness. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
See book keywords and concepts |  Beck developed cognitive therapy as a means to discover the "distorted" or "unrealistic" thinking that drives a person's negative feelings and behaviors.
Cognitive therapy has evolved a lot over the four decades since Beck's groundbreaking research. The core notion behind it remains the same, however: feeling follows thought. People who suffer chronically from negative emotions (anger, fear, resentment, powerlessness, poor self-esteem) suffer from a distorted thought process. If you can discover and correct the distortion in thought, the negative emotions disappear. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts | | One reason is that cognitive therapy teaches people practical skills they can use to combat depression any time, anywhere, every day for the rest of their lives. cognitive therapy has proven especially effective in helping adolescents with type 1 diabetes deal with their disease, leading to improvements in both mood and blood sugar control.5
Mental health specialists trained in cognitive therapy seek to change the way the depressed person consciously thinks about failure, defeat, loss, and helplessness. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
See book keywords and concepts | | The method I am going to teach you comes from cognitive therapy, a branch of traditional psychotherapy that is responsible for most of the advances in the field of psychology over the last thirty years. Aaron T. Beck, MD, first introduced cognitive therapy to the field of psychology in the 1960s. Beck believed that understanding the way people perceive and interpret experiences (known as cognition) was the key to freeing them from unhealthy emotional patterns.
Beck focused initially on depressed clients, ultimately expanding his research to cover other forms of mental disharmony. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts |  They would include speech therapy, cognitive therapy, and exercises, the teaching of life skills, and techniques to address distortions in thinking.25
Indeed, intriguing work at the University of Minnesota has shown just this. "There is neuroplasticity even in the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is the corner office of the brain, where all those important executive decisions are made about what to attend to and how to reach goals," according to Angus MacDonald III, a clinical psychologist and cognitivie neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  The basis of cognitive therapy is to identify—through maintaining a journal and by introspection—the negative, self-defeating inner dialogue of thoughts (what cognitive therapists refer to as "automatic thoughts"). Positive, coping thoughts can then be used to counter the negative thoughts. The goal is to pull yourself out of reflexive self-destructive mental behavior that may be exacerbating your sleep problems and to bolster the positive, self-reliant aspects of your personality. | | In many cases, people can resolve sleep problems with nothing more than counseling in what types of behavioral, dietary, or physical changes they need to make and some support in making those changes. cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy can be very helpful for those with sleep problems. First, let's take a look at the purely cognitive aspect of this approach: It has been estimated the average human being has around 50,000 thoughts per day, according to Dr. Richard
Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. . . And It's All Small Stuff. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Therapy: Therapy is advisable if any of the above drugs need to be used to treat an anxiety disorder. cognitive therapy, psychotherapy, and support groups are useful tools that can help you deal with anxiety issues.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Herbs: The herbs listed in the following formulas are available from Chinese pharmacies or online. To make a decoction, combine the herbs of either formula in a ceramic pot and add 3 cups of water. Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain the liquid and drink 1 cup twice a day. |
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See book keywords and concepts |  Options include one-on-one cognitive therapy and group therapy.
Often psychotherapy can be effective in helping patients who have not responded well to drug therapy. Researchers in the Netherlands, for example, found that cognitive therapy worked well for subjects plagued by paruresis, a fear of urinating in the proximity of others. After receiving cognitive therapy for 18 weeks, the patients reported a significant reduction of symptoms. Moreover, the researchers found that the patients maintained their psychiatric gains after six months (Jaspers 1998). |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts | | I've seen people who have done hard work in cognitive therapy, but they just can't sustain it when depression returns," says Jerrold Rosenbaum of Massachusetts General Hospital.39
The other problem is that CBT has not entered the mainstream culture, nor may it ever. Psychoanalysis, while devoid of much research base, was a lot of fun. It was the stuff of dreams, stories, conflicts, sex, aggression, unconscious desires, Freudian slips. It even offered a couch to lie down on! CBT, perhaps to its detriment as an art if not a science, is not narrative- or interpretation-based. | | In 1994, he founded the nonprofit
Beck Institute for cognitive therapy and Research, now run by his daughter. Aaron is in his eighties and is still going strong. In recent years, he has been evaluating CBT for schizophrenia and for the prevention of suicidal behavior, among other psychiatric disorders.
Beck ultimately came to the conclusion that psychoanalysis was a "faith-based therapy." Armed with now hundreds of studies, Beck can claim CBT as an empirical therapy. | | Adapted version of the chart, "The Cognitive Model," from Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond by Judith S. Beck, copyright © 1995 by Judith S. Beck; adapted version of the chart, "The Stages of Change Model," from Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover by Carlo C. DiClemente, Howard T. Blane, and Thomas R. Kosten, copyright © 2003 by Carlo C. DiClemente, Howard T. Blane, and Thomas R. Kosten. Reprinted by permission of Guilford Publications, Inc. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts | | Another critic criticized the study's design, noting that the group which received Prozac with cognitive therapy, for which most benefit was claimed, was not double or even single-blinded. Patients in this group knew that they were receiving the real SSRI, as did their physicians, a condition which surely created expectations of maximum benefit—and made comparison with the other groups less meaningful. "The data do not support the TADS authors' optimistic conclusion. The balance between benefit and harm of SSRI for depression in childhood has yet to be shown to be favorable. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts | | The goal is to pull yourself out of reflexive self-destructive mental behavior that may be exacerbating your sleep problems and to bolster the positive, self-reliant aspects of your personality. cognitive therapy does not focus on the root causes of psychological problems; rather, it seeks to support health by interrupting the flow of negative thoughts. Countering each negative thought with a list of positive responses to the same situation enables the mind to reframe the situation.
Now let's take a look at the behavioral component of cognitive-behavioral therapy. | | We explore different ways emotional issues can be resolved, including diet modification, cognitive therapy, hypnotherapy, and stress management techniques such as meditation. We also discuss how you can establish sleep rituals that will allow you to unwind at day's end and fall asleep easily and
Assessing Your Sleep History
As part of an examination for sleep problems, a physician will generally askaboutsleep habits. These questions are also helpful for self-assessment of your own sleep problems:
¦ Do you have a history of sleep problems? |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurring depression in older people: A qualitative study. Aging Ment Health 2007 May; 11(3):346-57.
Streeter CC et al. Yoga asana sessions increase brain GABA levels: A pilot study. J Altern Complement Med 2007 May; 13(4):4l9-26.
Surwit Richard S. The Mind Body Diabetes Revolution. New York: Free Press, 2004, p. 32.
Surwit RS, Feinglos MN. The effects of relaxations on glucose tolerance in non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Diabetes Care 1983 Mar-Apr; 6(2): 176-79.
Surwit RS et al. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts | | This is an edited version:
From my readings and discussions with His Holiness and other Buddhists, I am struck with the notion that Buddhism is the philosophy and psychology closest to cognitive therapy and vice versa.
. . . Acceptance and compassion were key similarities. Also, in both systems, we try to help people with their overattach-ment to material things and symbols (of success, etc., something we call "addiction"). |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The National Association of Cognitive Behavior Therapists Web site or that of the Academy of cognitive therapy lays out the details of CBT and also provides names of licensed therapists who follow the tenets of the doctors who developed CBT as an effective, highly focused therapy. Another Web-based alternative uses a parallel method developed by Dr. Abraham Low, a neurologist-psychiatrist who lived in the middle of the last century. Dr. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
See book keywords and concepts |  He may learn in cognitive therapy that he needs to let go and not try so hard, but down low in his brain remains the imprinted memory of the necessity for trying hard and never giving up. He is living out the initial patterning—the nervous system mode—the prototype, and he may drive himself to an early death.
It is logical to seek out and do what worked before. That is why, in a life-threatening situation, our entire life will pass before our eyes as the brain scans the history of a lifetime for a survival response. Some of us spring to action; others freeze. | | Those in cognitive therapy are able to "feel better," but confuse that with getting better because they can use language and words to suffocate pain. They use thoughts to anesthetize feelings and imagine and think that all is well.
There is a world of the deep unconscious that needs to be explored; an unconscious from our animal legacy. That unconscious can never be understood in verbal language. We can't talk to a salamander and we cannot talk to the salamander brain residing in each of us. | | This includes all insight therapies, cognitive therapy, rational emotive therapy, hypnotherapy, psychoanalysis, biofeedback, eye movement desensitization and reprocesssing (EMDR), and guided imagery/directive daydreaming. All of these can help, but none can make a profound change in personality or provide profound, lasting relief.
I would have disagreed with this proposition when I originally practiced psychoanalytic, insight therapy many decades ago. My patients agreed that they felt differently after treatment, and believed that they had made major changes in their lives. | | We will see how important this is later on when we discuss cognitive therapy.
For true and lasting change, deep levels of the brain must change physiologically, enabling key structures within the brain to recalibrate to optimal, healthy levels.
For true and lasting change, deep levels of the brain must change physiologically, enabling key structures within the brain to recalibrate to optimal, healthy levels. For true and lasting change, deep levels of the brain must change physiologically, enabling key structures within the brain to recalibrate to optimal, healthy levels. | | We go to cognitive therapy to enlist the armies of the word against the ranks of feelings. With this understanding, we can see how futile it is to use ideas in treating the effects of deeply ingrained traumas. It is not just ideas that are involved in therapy. The therapist is not only the purveyor of ideas, she is also the filler of needs (symbolically) and in that way we can only get well symbolically; therapy is yet another form of act-out. What is real is the patient's unresolved childhood need and the dislocation it caused long ago. |
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Although experts are not sure just how cognitive therapy and hypnosis ease IBS symptoms, Lackner's and Simren's results are in line with other studies that have come to similar conclusions.
Dr. Emeran Mayer, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles, believes that hypnotherapy works because it alters the way the brain reacts to stress, reducing levels of body arousal. "There's a very important role for these kinds of [mind-body] approaches," he says. | | Both the short and long cognitive therapy sessions included the same information, but the short course had a self-study workbook developed specifically for the study.
The therapy instructed IBS patients on how to undo some of their stressful habits, such as negative thinking patterns and poor coping skills, both of which can create anxiety and exacerbate IBS symptoms. "These people spend a lot of time in their head, engaging in worrisome thinking," Lackner says. |
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