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Patient preference and research efficacy in EBPP

Swift and Callahan (2010) have recently published an intriguing empirical study of patient preference regarding psychotherapy. Adult outpatients were asked to indicate how much certainty of improvement (a la RCT efficacy research) they would be willing to trade in favor of “common factors” variables such as a therapist who is empathic, experienced, listens well, or [...]

Book Review: Healing the Incest Wound by Christine A. Courtois, PhD

Review by James A. Chu, MD. Healing the Incest Wound, originally published in 1988, was a landmark achievement in the modern era of trauma psychiatry and psychology. Christine Courtois, PhD is one of the pioneers who helped rediscover the long-neglected effects of pandemic childhood sexual abuse and to introduce treatment models that could help incest [...]

Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy Shows Promise in Reducing Somatization Patients’ Return Emergency Department Visits

By Michael Constantino and Jeffrey Magnavita. Summary Abbass et al. (2009) examined the preliminary efficacy of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in the treatment of patients with medically unexplained symptoms (i.e., somatization complaints) presenting to the emergency department (ED). ISTDP is a brief, although not time-restricted, approach that targets the unconscious emotional processes underlying patient’s [...]

EBPP Treatment Update Suggestions

Suggest Topics for the Evidence-Based Treatment Updates for Psychotherapists Michael J. Constantino & Jeffrey Magnavita This evidence-based treatment update column was designed to keep clinicians abreast of the most current findings in clinical science. In this section of our website we draw information from recent reports published in a variety of cutting edge journals, and [...]

Treatment of Comorbid PTSD and Substance Abuse Shows Support of the Self-Medication Model

By Michael Constantino and Jeffrey Magnavita. Summary In an RCT study of 353 women assigned to either 12 sessions of trauma-focused or health education group treatment the researchers found that PTSD severity reductions were more likely associated with substance use improvement whereas minimal reduction in PTSD was found with substance use reduction (Hein et al., [...]