Three-quarters of the people with serious alcohol and drug problems go without treatment. This is often caused by a lack of understanding about what constitutes treatment. Few consumers, family members, and policymakers realize that effective drug and alcohol treatment exists. This publication describes a nationwide project organized by Join…

Describes an individual's healing from the trauma of childhood sexual abuse through counseling, spiritual growth, and the use of therapeutic ritual. Explores relationships between the psychospiritual issues associated with childhood sexual abuse and commonly designated treatment goals. Claims that addressing psychospiritual issues is crucial in…

Changes in within-session family interaction patterns were examined over the course of Brief Strategic Family Therapy with four Hispanic adolescents referred for behavior problems and drug or alcohol use. Adolescents' successful outcomes were related to improvements in family style of conflict resolution and other measures of family functioning.…

Examined 91 older adults initially diagnosed as in episode of major depressive disorder who were treated with brief cognitive, behavioral, or psychodynamic psychotherapy. Using research diagnostic criteria, 52 percent, 58 percent, and 70 percent of sample did not meet criteria for depressive disorder at posttherapy, 12- and 24-month…

Presents Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) of persuasion (a reconceptualization of the social influence process) as alternative model of attitude change. Contends ELM unifies conflicting social psychology results and can potentially account for inconsistent research findings in counseling psychology. Provides guidelines on integrating…

Performed a meta-analysis on 18 studies in which a cognitive-behavioral therapy was compared with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis. Results indicated that hypnosis substantially enhanced treatment outcome, even though there were few procedural differences between the hypnotic and nonhypnotic treatments. Effects seemed particularly…

Outcome of abuse-focused treatment was examined with 105 children (ages 8 through 15) who had been sexually abused, 71 of whom completed at least 3 months of treatment. Measures of depression and trauma symptoms showed continuing declines in some areas (such as anxiety, posttraumatic stress, dissociation, and sexual concerns) over a 1-year…

Methodological issues are addressed for those who design studies that evaluate treatment efficacy among sexual abuse victims. Two areas of integrated inquiry are needed: studies that seek to determine the degree to which early sexual trauma differs from other early trauma, and studies that seek to understand how well different interventions fit…

Randomly assigned depressed family caregivers (n=66) of frail elderly relatives to 20 sessions of cognitive-behavioral (CB) or brief psychodynamic (PD) individual psychotherapy. At posttreatment, 71% of caregivers were no longer clinically depressed, with no differences found between two treatments. Found interaction between treatment modality and…

This case study describes use of a program of self-mediated recording and intervention, including distraction techniques, with monitoring within the family, with an 8-year-old child with leukemia and a generalized anxiety about health. Anxiety was reduced to the normal range and maintained at that level at a nine-month followup assessment.…

Uses work with anxiety-disordered youth as an example of potentially transportable manual-based treatment. Examines client factors, service-clinic therapist factors, and researcher factors that may contribute to the reported gap between research and practice outcomes. (JPS)

Offers the generic model of psychotherapy as a transtheoretical model of universal change processes. Examines session-three change processes in a naturalistic study of dynamic therapy guided by the generic model. Findings replicate and extend earlier work addressing propositions of the generic model in dynamic therapy. Openness and bond…

More methodologically sound research in adventure therapy is needed if the field is to claim empirically-based efficacy as a treatment modality. Some considerations for conducting outcome studies in adventure therapy relate to standardization, multiple domain assessment, regression techniques, objective assessment of participant change, client and…

This study of continuing care for substance dependent patients compared a telephone-based monitoring and brief counseling intervention (TEL) with 2 face-to-face interventions, relapse prevention (RP) and standard 12-step group counseling (STND). The participants were graduates of intensive outpatient programs who had current dependence on alcohol…

The therapeutic alliance is an established predictor of psychotherapy outcome. However, alliance research in the treatment of eating disorders has been scant, with even less attention paid to correlates of alliance development. The goal of this study was to examine the relation between specific patient characteristics and the development of the…