Clinical Psychotherapy - Science topic

For more than half a century, attachment theory has explained the effects of maternal deprivation and the negative impact of traumatic events on a child's psychophysical growth; however, the literature has not yet been able to demonstrate what the correlation is between attachment style and the onset of a specific psychopathological personality pic...

Background This paper examines cognitive and body-based therapies through the lens of embodiment, framing treatments as constructed experiences shaped by individuals' subjective and intersubjective lived experiences. Embodiment is considered to have restorative qualities that have the potential to improve psychotherapy’s success. We address some of...

In demanding application scenarios such as clinical psychotherapy and criminal interrogation, the accurate recognition of micro-expressions is of utmost importance but poses significant challenges. One of the main difficulties lies in effectively capturing weak and fleeting facial features and improving recognition performance. To address this fund...

Background:Interventions are required that give a lecture depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) indications and social wellbeing.The Psychotherapies aimed at Chronic PTSD randomizedexperimentalestablish that three fourteen -week psychotherapies severelyfurthered patients with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Earlierinves...

Por más de 40 años, Sidney ha ejercido la psicoterapia clínica para niños, adultos, parejas y profesionales, por cerca de 45 años. Junto a su esposo, Al Tompkins, quien es profesor senior del Instituto Poynter, ha trabajado con periodistas de todo el mundo quienes han sufrido estrés traumático. De manera reciente, ambos lo han hecho con reporteros...

O fenômeno da terminalidade refere-se ao processo que ocorre quando uma pessoa recebe o diagnóstico de uma doença grave ou terminal, e precisa enfrentar a perspectiva da morte. A morte e o luto são temas complexos e difíceis que podem afetar profundamente a vida das pessoas. A psicoterapia pode ser uma ferramenta importante para ajudar as pessoas a...

Visual reality (VR) plays a huge role in mental issue prevention and therapy by providing an immersive experience and distracting patients’ attention from the pain. However, since researchers mainly focus on clinical psychotherapy, VR products are more inclined to formal medical treatment rather than recreational programs. To create a project that...

Durante la pandemia por COVID-19 se dio una acelerada virtualización de los procesos de atención psicológica en Costa Rica, en paralelo a la expansión en la regulación de esta modalidad por parte del Colegio de Profesionales en Psicología de Costa Rica. El presente artículo tiene el objetivo de identificar valoraciones de personas del gremio de pro...

This paper specifically addresses and presents the actual knowledge of teaching Psychology, the fact that Psychology as a course is broad and can be applied to assessing and treating problems, not just regarding to mental health but other aspects of human beings. It can be channeled also to understanding the situations and problems of people. This...

Background and Objective Childhood is a crucial period for the formation of an individual’s attachment type. Previous studies focused more on how to directly intervene in children’s mental health problems such as depression, and less on how to improve children’s mental health from the perspective of attachment relationship. Secure base, as one of t...

Competent clinical psychotherapy treatment imparts the spiritual/religious/transpersonal (S/R/T) beliefs and practices of clients (Barnett, 2016). Therefore, understanding a client’s symptoms (e.g., cultural, spiritual, or religious) is important to developing competence in the delivery of effective and ethical clinical care. Questions for Clinici...

Background: In the German healthcare system benefits include inpatient and day clinic psychotherapy of trauma-related disorders, which are often provided in gender specific groups. Despite this widespread practice, the actual impact and potential outcome have been studied relatively scarcely and are still open to debate. The present study therefore...

As clinicians, we find ourselves in the role of helping others and collectively we have the systemic power to help improve the health and well-being of our communities through our clinical work and the inherited admonition to ‘do no harm.’ This help includes the support of life-changing and potentially life altering experiences that have the potent...

Background: Internet addiction is one of the serious consequences of recent advances in the use of social media. Early detection of Internet addiction is essential because of its harms and is necessary for timely and effective treatment. Aim: The aim of this study was to use data mining and an artificial intelligence algorithm to estimate the di...

Objective: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) increases risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and both CSA and PTSD are strongly associated with impaired social functioning. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has demonstrated promise for adults with PTSD and has been shown to be effective for women with PTSD and histories of CSA, but the mechanis...

The present study used the bibliometrics to review the research progress and hotspots of hyperscanning researches in recent years in combination with macro and micro perspectives, and prospect for future research trends. The results found that the number of literatures published in hyperscanning was increasing exponentially. The autism spectrum dis...

Abstract Individuals in some societies suffer from their submission to the prevailing social forces, which leads to depriving them of the will, the free expression of their feelings, and the original internal clarity of the individual. The most important goal of educational institutions is to achieve psychological health and psychological and...

Background: Residential and day-hospital psychotherapy are treatment modalities for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A systematic overview of their effectiveness is lacking. Aim: To systematically examine the effects of residential and day-hospital psychotherapy for BPD (PROSPERO, CRD42020158557). Method: PsycINFO and PubMed, as...

The Examen is a 500-year-old end of day prayer developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits). Like many other religious or spiritual practices, such as mindfulness and yoga, the Examen is suitable as either a spiritually focused or secular intervention strategy to assist people within clinical ps...

Background: Interpersonal skills deficits and dysfunctional metacognitive beliefs have been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of depression. This study aimed to investigate the association between changes in these skills deficits and change in depressive symptoms over the course of treatment with Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psy...

This paper offers a detailed description of a Cognitive Apprenticeship Model for psychotherapy training and supervision. This form of training has been utilized in a novel psychotherapy training program developed for psychiatric trainees, enrolled in a specialized psychotherapy scholars track, embedded in an adult psychiatric residency training pro...

Empathetic response from the therapist is key to the success of clinical psychotherapy, especially motivational interviewing. Previous work on computational modelling of empathy in motivational interviewing has focused on offline, session-level assessment of therapist empathy, where empathy captures all efforts that the therapist makes to understan...

The concept of biological adaptation was closely connected to some mathematical, engineering and physical ideas from the very beginning. Cannon in his “The wisdom of the body” (1932) systematically used the engineering vision of regulation. In 1938, Selye enriched this approach by the notion of adaptation energy. This term causes much debate when o...

In Germany, rehabilitation programs are established for both cardiovascular and mental illness. They aim to improve quality of life and social participation. In the case of coronary artery disease, rehabilitation also reduces mortality. Cardiovascular and psychological disease are often co-existing: cardiovascular patients are at risk for depressio...

There has been recent emphasis on the assessment of competence in psychotherapy training courses to improve evidence‐based practice and outcomes for clients. The Systemic Practice Scale (SPS) was developed as a structured way of evaluating systemic practice. There is, however, little research on the impact and experience of competence measures, par...

In the past 40 years, the prevalence of eating disorders (ED) in China has shown an increasing trend, leading to an urgent need to develop efficient treatment modes and methods. Since the beginning of the new century, the diagnosis, treatment, and research of ED in China have been under development. This article gives an introduction and commentary...

Mental health is an integral part of the quality of life of cancer patients. It has been found that mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety, are more common in cancer patients. They may result in catastrophic consequences, including suicide. Therefore, monitoring mental health metrics (such as hope, anxiety, and mental well-being) is r...

Trata-se de três casos de adolescentes com idade entre 14 e 17 anos, sendo dois do sexo feminino e um do sexo masculino, diagnosticados com Transtorno do déficit de atenção com hiperatividade – TDAH, encaminhados para Psicoterapia clínica na abordagem comportamental devido os pensamentos suicidas e tentativas. O foco delimitado consistiu em trabalh...

The concept of biological adaptation was closely connected to some mathematical, engineering and physical ideas from the very beginning. Cannon in his "The wisdom of the body" (1932) systematically used the engineering vision of regulation. In 1938, Selye enriched this approach by the notion of adaptation energy. Adaptation energy is a hypothetical...

Hintergrund und Zielstellung: Die Zunahme älterer Menschen und der epidemiologische Übergang zu nicht übertragbaren Erkrankungen bedingen einen steigenden Bedarf an hochqualifizierter Rehabilitation (Stucki et al., 2018). Rehabilitation ist daher in vielen wissenschaftlichen medizinischen Fachgesellschaften als Gesundheitsstrategie verankert. Die A...

Embodied Imagination, which was proposed by Dutch psychologist Robert Bosnak, is a dreamwork technique. By re-experiencing the dream images in a dual-state and triggering body feelings, the contents of unconsciousness could be revealed consciously, and thus achieving the therapeutic goal. This article systematically expounds the theoretical basis a...

The concept of atmosphere in psychopathology has been used sporadically and by only a few, albeit authoritative, authors, although such contributions, largely neglected by debate in psychiatry and psychotherapy, today are particularly interesting because they point to and support a conception of psychopathology that goes beyond a symptomatic and in...

One growing area of research in the field of interaction design concerns new applications of filmed VR, or what is sometimes referred to as 360 video. We have studied this new semi-interactive medium in two applied use settings: in clinical psychotherapy sessions for agoraphobia and in elderly care. The systems used in both projects were effective...

This chapter introduces the reader to principles found to be efficacious in the practice of mental health-based psychotherapy, and their application to career counselling. Drawing upon the clinical psychotherapy research literature, and personal experience as therapists, the authors discuss two factors that have been found to each play a statistica...

O presente artigo relata uma experiência de atuação em psicologia escolar. Desde 1980, a psicologia escolar critica a psicologia tradicional, através de pesquisas que contestam a explicação patologizante do fracasso escolar, gerando modificações na atuação de muitos psicólogos. Práticas psicológicas como a psicoterapia clínica em ambiente escolar s...

This first article traces some of the lesser known roots and branches of Yoga and how they weave into modern neuroscience and psychology, melding with integration science. The second article will review in more detail the research evidence for the broad-ranging benefits of Yoga to the body, mind, and spirit, gathered from diverse fields such as epi...

Die moderne Arbeitswelt erfordert mehr denn je psychomentale Fähigkeiten von Mitarbeitern aller Hierarchieebenen. Arbeitsunfähigkeiten aufgrund psychischer Erkrankungen haben in den vergangenen zehn Jahren deutlich zugenommen. Dabei liegt jedoch die Prävalenz psychischer Erkrankungen in der Allgemeinbevölkerung seit Jahrzehnten stabil bei etwa 30%....

In this Monograph, Eva Bonda proposes a new theory of the sense of ‘touch’ in Aristotle’s foundational treatise ‘Περὶ Ψυχῆς’ (On the Soul). The author argues that a delve into the aristoteleian lexicon reveals an intrinsically dialectical theory of the senses, that of all senses being reduced to ‘touch’ either as an experience of polysensoriality o...

Background: Women with depression and childhood sexual abuse histories constitute more than 20% of the female patient population in publicly funded community mental health centers (CMHCs). Interventions are needed that address depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and social health. Method: We compared Interpersonal Psycho...

My presentation is both personal and professional. Radical changes have taken place in both areas of my life. By ‘radical’ I mean truths that I have needed to hear; to witness. As I looked back over my journey more and more deeply, revisiting to once more listen, now to witness my own sense of ‘(un)wellness’ - the title of the talk - I could no lon...

RESUMO A literatura sobre terapia comportamental infantil denuncia carência em pesquisas aplicadas que guiem a prestação de serviço. Na Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional (FAP) aplicada a crianças, observa-se tal constatação e nota-se que essa proposta tem sido utilizada como uma técnica adjunta à Terapia Analítico-Comportamental Infantil (TACI) e co...

Background Internet technology offers psychiatrists new opportunities for remote interaction with patients. It also raises issues regarding therapeutic effectiveness, safety, technical problems and possibilities for overcoming them, and matters related to specific mental health problems such as autism. The case presented concerns an adolescent male...

Abstract Objectives: First, to outline the paradigm change of the past 20 years that has transformed the theory and practice psychodynamic psychotherapy; second, to update aspects of the current applications in clinical practice to align with the paradigm change driven by the principles of regulation theory, relational trauma and repair, and the cr...

In their psychotherapy practice, the authors of this article observed that the diagnostic assessment of the personality structure in most patients with burnout syndrome shows features of medium-level borderline personality organization, relatively closer to a neurotic structure or moderately integrated borderline personality structure. Therefore, w...

Objectives: First, to outline the paradigm change of the past 20 years that has transformed the theory and practice of child and adolescent psychodynamic psychotherapy; second, to update aspects of the current Practice Parameters for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children to align with the paradigm change driven by the principles of regulation...

Psychodrama, created by Jacob Levy Moreno, is a method of approach to the individual, the family, groups and the community, which had its origins in the theatre, sociology and psychology. From his work with children and marginalized groups, its creator gestated its theory and its technique. It develops in different areas: clinical, psychotherapy, p...

Objective Depressive disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders. For severely depressed patients, day clinic and inpatient settings represent important treatment options. However, little is known about patients’ perceptions of the different levels of care. This study aimed to obtain an in-depth analysis of depressive patients’ experi...

Die Weiterentwicklung der Rehabilitation ist ohne Forschung nicht möglich. Daher ist es ein zentrales Anliegen der Deutschen Rentenversicherung und der in der Forschung engagierten Rehabilitations-kliniken, eine qualitativ hochwertige Reha-Forschung sowie die Umsetzung der Forschungsergebnis-se in die klinische Praxis effizient und nachhaltig zu fö...

The post-rationalist psychotherapy academy (non-classic cognitive approach) started at the end of the 80’s with a series of con- sistent hypotheses. It is an academy which stems from contemporary psychotherapy and develops different areas, giving a strong contribu- tion to theoretical and clinical psychotherapy. This academy has presented developme...

Philosophical Psychotherapy: Pyrrhonean Methodology of Self's Critical Inclination. Investigating Contemporary Psychotherapeutic Challenges into the Education and the Promotion of the Person in dire need Abstract The contemporary academic literature on the field of the psychologicallyoriented pain relief, gives us a whole new perspective on the “me...

We propose that key concepts from clinical psychotherapy can inform science-based initiatives aimed at building tolerance and community cohesion. Commonalities in social and clinical psychology are identified regarding (1) distorted thinking (intergroup bias and cognitive bias), (2) stress and coping (at intergroup level and intrapersonal level), a...

In this part of our work about a comparison between Kelly's personal construct theory and phenomenology, we enter the fields of psychotherapy and research. The topic of intersub-jectivity, meant as original recognition of the other's subjectivity, provides a backdrop for both phenomenological clinic and Kellyan psychotherapy. Though Kelly never use...

This paper gives an introduction into the "Social Panorama Model" developed by the dutch social psychologist and member of the ILMSR, Lucas Derks. The model described is not only reconceptualizing important issues discussed in the field of social psychology and social cognition. It also proved to be highly valuable for imagery-based applications in...

A clinical psychotherapy needs to turn its gaze to the current demands, and update its practice in empirical studies. The objective of this research is to ascertain the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of children treated in psychotherapy by learning problems. We conducted a retrospective documentary study with records of 2106 children...

The present study addresses whether it is possible to accurately determine a subject's Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classification by observing a video-recorded clinical psychotherapy discussion that uses the principles of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). A random sample of eight of the author's (Robert J. Nebrosky) private p...

The field of “Philosophical Psychotherapy”, underlies an epistιmological trend of great importance, undiminishedly and continually developed into the contemporary scientific context, offering, in this way, a new perspective on the crucial existential impasses, which tend to trouble people nowadays. This School of Thought, has already come to existe...

This study aimed to identify characteristics and specificities that permeate the psychotherapeutic work with older women, in order to highlight the challenges of this clinic, both from a theoretical standpoint, as epistemological. We conducted a field study of exploratory, through the clinical-qualitative method. The twelve psychotherapy sessions w...

Including biological measures such as the serotonin function to the outcome variables of psychotherapy opens novel perspectives, which may enable better integration of diagnostic and neurobiological aspects with psychotherapy research. However, the problems of epistemology, ontology and the conceptual differences pertaining to such interdisciplinar...

This article presents data of one of the studies developed in the thesis "The narrative text as therapeutic intervention in written language problems in adolescence" (Grohs, 2009): a structural analysis of the narrative text produced in psychoanalytical psychotherapy. This analysis points to the possibility of using the narrative text as an instrum...

I comment on the article by Krause (see record 2011-19228-002), which discusses a number of ways for clinical psychotherapy outcome researchers to make the results of randomized controlled trials (RCT) more useful to practicing psychotherapists primarily by making the distributions of raw data from those studies available to the public. In this way...

This article explores transactional analysis (TA) teaching—that is, teaching “in the manner of TA”—and distinguishes it from teaching TA from a generic educational perspective, an activity that may or may not be analyzed in transactional analysis terms. The author applies transactional analysis philosophy, practice, and theory to the teaching and t...

Systematic psychotherapy training of psychiatrists began in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s in the university departments of psychiatry and in the Psychiatric Association of Finland. Some ten years later several local psychotherapy societies were founded in different parts of the country providing training for psychiatrists but also for other profes...

In explorative regression studies, linear models are often applied without questioning the linearity of the relations between the predictor variables and the dependent variable, or linear relations are taken as an approximation. In this study, the method of regression with optimal scaling transformations is demonstrated. This method does not requir...

Abstract\BACKGROUND: Standardised evaluation studies performed in the Netherlands in a large number of inpatient and day-treatment hospitals providing psychotherapy have shown significant symptomatic improvements in patients between the date of entry to the studies and follow-up after one year. However, the work situation of ex-patients hardly chan...

Although, according to the DSM-IV criteria, low self-esteem is not a specific disorder and is only one of several distinguishing aspects in some disorders, many patients with emotional problems have to deal with this condition. The purpose of this study was to analyze Competitive Memory Training (COMET) for treating low self-esteem. The main hypoth...

Forgiveness and gratitude are positive psychological characteristics that are connected to well-being. This study examined these connections in an understudied population of psychotherapy outpatients and examined the extent to which affect and beliefs mediated these relationships. Participants were 72 outpatients who completed a battery of assessme...

To examine the issue of informed consent and how this is translated into clinical psychotherapy practice. A qualitative approach was taken in which interviews were used to produce data. Nine clinical psychologists with specialist psychodynamic training took part in the research. Participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview schedu...

Dit artikel is het verslag van een exploratief, retrospectief onderzoek naar drop-out onder patiënten die een klinische psychotherapie zijn aangegaan. Bijna eenderde van de patiënten breekt de behandeling voortijdig af. De meeste drop-outs staken de behandeling vroeg, binnen grofweg drie maanden. Drop-out blijkt geassocieerd met het ontbreken van e...

Desde a mais tenra idade, uma criança tem o direito de crescer em sua história, a história que é governou sua concepção e que é delineada por seu desenvolvimento fetal, sem qualquer disjunção entre essa história e aquela após seu nascimento. A exploração da amnésia infantil que consiste na negação da existência de memórias esquecidas do início da v...

c An, een jonge vrouw die is opgenomen in een behandelsetting voor patiënten met persoonlijkheidsproblemen, lijkt haar hoofd te ver-liezen na een ruzie met haar vriend. Oskar Shell, het negenjarige personage uit de roman 'Extreem luid & ongelooflijk dichtbij' van Jonathan Safran Foer, probeert de plotse dood van zijn vader te ver-werken. Beiden ver...

Er is weinig bekend over het type patiënt dat wordt verwezen voor (deeltijd) klinische psychotherapie. Een beschrijvend, retrospectief cohortonderzoek is uitgevoerd met 100 patiënten die zich hebben aangemeld voor een intake bij een (deeltijd)kliniek voor persoonlijkheids-, angst- en eetstoornissen. Van hen zijn sociodemografische en klinische kenm...

The authors' goal was to examine the incidence and predictors of emergent suicidality that occurred during a clinical trial of psychotherapy for adolescent depression. The rates and predictors of emergent suicidality in 88 medication-free depressed adolescent outpatients who reported no current suicidality during an intake interview were assessed o...

Obituary for psychologist Carmi Harari (1920-2003). Among other things the obituary notes that, Harari was a noted psychoanalyst, clinical and forensic psychologist, disability examiner, and prolific workshop leader worldwide on issues of peacemaking and political psychology. He was an active officer and member of many international psychology grou...

Thesis researching the interface between Clinical Psychotherapy and the Christian faith as seen through the eyes of a clinician with 30 years experience of maxillofacial Prosthetic reconstruction and the need for psychological help and support. The professional relationship between psychotherapist and patient is unique as the patient often shares...

Diese Struktur wird der Essstorungstherapie zugrunde gelegt. Basis ist der Stabilisierungsprozess. Er begleitet die gesamte Psychotherapie. Unverzichtbare Elemente sind das Schaffen einer atraumatischen therapeutischen Beziehung und einen atraumatischen Umgang der Patienten mit sich selbst (Plassmann 2002). Fur die Stabilisierung der essgestorten P...

It is often thought, that men have more difficulties in body oriented psychotherapy than women because of the gender specific differences in the attitude towards the body. Using a sample of 62 in-patients, the present study considers the question, whether in clinical psychotherapy influences of sex and age (as control variables) on course and outco...

The authors have reported that adolescents with major depressive disorder had a higher remission rate with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) than with systemic behavioral family therapy (SBFT) or nondirective supportive therapy (NST). Parent-rated treatment credibility deteriorated from baseline to end of treatment if patients were treated with SB...

Is the current internship system sufficiently diverse to prepare psychologists for the many professional roles they will take on in the post-managed care future? Creating internships in new settings may help clinical psychology become a stronger presence in diverse areas of intervention and expand work with populations less commonly reached in the...

Het intensief betrekken van familieleden en andere directbetrokkenen bij de behandeling van mensen met een schizofrene stoornis wordt tegenwoordig beschouwd als goed klinisch handelen. Hoe is de situatie bij patiënten met een borderline persoonlijkheidsstoornis? In de literatuur wordt weinig aandacht geschonken aan de plaats van directbetrokkenen i...

A favorable therapeutic course is achieved by the combination of an initial clinical psychotherapy and a subsequent analytical long-term treatment implemented as an outpatient therapy or an interval therapy. This form of therapy was offered to all of the patients and was accepted by half of the patient collective, i.e., by 12 out of 24. Only in 1 o...

The author's experience using treatment manuals for various forms of psychotherapy in several situations provides the basis for this discussion of their value in graduate-level clinical training programs and psychiatric residencies. Use of manuals is recommended, particularly for novice psychotherapists. Commonly accepted goals of clinical training...

Tested the hypothesis that personality changes ensue from practicing psychotherapy. Specifically, it was predicted that increases would occur in ratings of beginning psychotherapists' accurate empathy, nonpossessive warmth, and genuineness as a result of practicing psychotherapy. The initial stage of training was defined as the 1st month of a psych...

The chapter examines the role of spirituality and meaning in the aftermath of trauma. The chapter focuses on the variables that promote PTG and on the specific impact of spirituality and meaning. The chapter reviews PTG research results in multiple clinical settings, e.g., clinical psychotherapy centers and hospitals. The chapter conclude with a br...

This paper argues that the process of modeling in science and the process of encountering and working with a client in clinical psychotherapy overlap. In briefer terms: what makes a good therapist is much like what makes a good scientific modeler. Both modeling and psychotherapy are iterative processes, requiring careful observation, generation and...

From the very beginning of the pandemic period on the incidence of Covid-2019, numerous sources have recorded an increase in the number of suicides among adolescents, this number has not fallen to this day. The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at investigating the correlation structure of social and personal identity in adol...

Gli Autori cercano di descrivere lo stato dell'arte della ricerca nell'ambito della psicoterapia clinica. Vengono descritti i vari modelli proposti come scientifici provenienti dalla filosofia della scienza. Vengono descritti vari bias della ricerca in psichiatria e psicoterapia. Si sottolineano le difficoltà e le in- congruenze del tarare la sogge...

Chronic disease is a significant burden on individuals, families, and healthcare systems, with costs that continue to rise at alarming rates. It is the leading cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States, accounting for 70% of all deaths. Finding new and effective treatment options to address the complex and multifaceted issues sur...

Introduction Hip fractures are the major cause of disability and functional impairment in the elderly. Studies have correlated the results from treating femoral neck fractures; however, little has been described the quality of life (QOL) after hemiarthroplasty in these patients. Objective An assessment of physical, psychological, social relationsh...

From the very beginning of the pandemic period of Covid-2019 numerous sources have recorded an increase in the number of suicides among adolescents. The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at studying social and personal identity of adolescents with a history of suicidal attempts and adolescents without suicidal attempts. At th...

O trabalho em questão que possui a temática de compreensão a respeito da adaptação que a Psicologia em sua atuação de psicoterapia clínica precisou se reinventar e ser disruptiva as seus temores. Dessa forma foi utilizado uma revisão narrativa de literatura das dispostas resoluções de atendimento on-line lançado pelo Conselho Federal de Psicologia...

Esse artigo visa elaborar um breve estudo acerca do olhar da psicologia fenomenológico-existencial sobre a pessoa com vitiligo. A partir do crescimento das doenças de pele mediante a somatização das vivências, buscamos entender o vitiligo como uma condição que está além da materialidade do ser, sendo muitas vezes causadora de sofrimento psíquico. A...

Background: The worldwide prevalence for infertility varies between 4-17%, and in western countries about one out of seven couples with child wish is affected. The experience of infertility is associated with a risk for psychological and dyadic distress, which is characterized by partners influencing each other mutually in their individual conditi...

JL and Zerka T. Moreno created the fields of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy (Moreno and Moreno (1969) Foundations of psychodrama, vol 3. Beacon House). This chapter presents how TSM psychodrama uses the basics of sociometry to consistently build safety for trauma-informed experiential groups. It shows the therapeutic spiral model...

Reproduced below you will find the transcript of the interview I, Peter Maduro, conducted of Robert Stolorow, on April 17, 2021, respecting the forty-plus year history and conceptual development of his theory of emotional trauma. My interview of Dr. Stolorow was the centerpiece of an international on-line program co-sponsored by the Institute of Co...

S.I. Konstorum is a founder of Russian clinical psychotherapy. Clinical classical psychotherapy is a direction in psychotherapy that meets the same natural science principles as the clinical medicine of Hippocrates. Konstorum designed and described in his monograph “The Experience of practical psychotherapy” the detailed nuanced methods applied to...

Warum gibt es Veränderungen? Was bewegt Menschen dazu, ihre Komfortzone zu verlassen? Was sind die Beweggründe? Was treibt das Individuum an? Welche Erfahrungen bringen es in Bewegung? Wo will eine Person hin? Kaum eine Branche zeigt den Veränderungswillen von Menschen so deutlich wie die klinische Psychotherapie.

This column describes the initial steps to develop a bidirectional access initiative between outpatient psychiatric and primary care clinics within an academic medical center. The authors analyzed electronic health record data (N=2,837 patients), interviewed psychiatric and primary care providers, assembled a work group, and identified five patient...