Behavioral and cognitive treatment methods: A critical comparative review

Sweet, Andrew A.; Loizeaux, Andrew L.

doi:10.1016/0005-7916(91)90014-v

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“…A very early narrative review of 40 studies that were mostly randomized trials or studies with matched control design (87%) compared behaviour therapy techniques with CT techniques or a combination of both across a large range of mental health disorders and other presenting issues, including depression. 44 The results from these 40 studies showed that in 83% of studies there was no additional benefit of adding cognitive techniques to behavioural approaches. Eight studies were conducted in adults with depression; these included a range of comparisons, and overall showed that CT adds little in terms of treatment effectiveness to BT.…”

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Back to basics: could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review

Hetrick

Cox

Fisher

et al. 2014

Early Intervention Psych

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Section: Evidence From Studies In Adultsmentioning

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Back to basics: could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review

Hetrick

Cox

Fisher

et al. 2014

Early Intervention Psych

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“…The component analysis study was not the first study to challenge the cognitive explanation for the documented success of CT. Cognitive therapy for depression has been demonstrated to be an efficacious treatment for depression in multiple clinical trials since the 1980s (DeRubeis, Gel‐fand, Tang, & Simons, 1999; Dobson, 1989; Hollon, Shelton, & Loosen, 1991). However, a number of investigators have questioned whether cognitive interventions, in fact, account for the positive outcome of cognitive therapy (see, e.g., Beidel & Turner, 1986; Latimer & Sweet, 1984; Sweet & Louizeaux, 1991; Wilson, Gol‐din, & Charbonneau‐Powis, 1983). The component analysis study highlighted the surprising efficacy of a purely behavioral approach and, from a pragmatic standpoint, raised the question of whether BA, a more parsimonious treatment, would be more amenable to dissemination, particularly via less experienced therapists and/or self‐administered or peer support treatments.…”

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Behavioral activation treatment for depression: Returning to contextual roots.

Jacobson

Martell

Dimidjian

2001

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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Behavioral activation (BA), as a stand‐alone treatment for depression, began as a behavior therapy treatment condition in a component analysis study of the Beck, Rush, Shaw, and Emery version of cognitive therapy. BA attempts to help depressed people reengage in their lives through focused activation strategies. These strategies counter patterns of avoidance, withdrawal, and inactivity that may exacerbate depressive episodes by generating additional secondary problems in individuals' lives. BA is designed to help individuals approach and access sources of positive reinforcement in their lives, which can serve a natural antidepressant function. Our purpose in this article is to describe BA and the history of its development.

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“…Beidel and Turner (1986) also argued that treatments classified as cognitive-behavioural are no more effective than treatments classified as purely behavioural. Although purely behavioural treatment is uncommon in current clinical practice, the conclusion of equal Emotion-Congruent Information Processing 4 effectiveness remains consistent with more recent evidence on the treatment of depression (Jacobson, Martell, & Dimidjian, 2001) and the anxiety disorders (Feske & Chambless, 1995;Sweet & Loizeaux, 1991;van Blakom et al, 1994).…”

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Components of Negative Emotion and Emotion-Congruent Information Processing Biases

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<p>Negative emotion is often associated with emotion-congruent biases in information processing. However, rather than all negative emotion being associated with biases in all information processes, certain components of emotion appear to be associated with specific biases. This project examined two examples of specific associations. First, Williams, Watts, MacLeod, & Mathews (1988, 1997) have argued that anxiety is associated with biases on tasks involving priming, and depression is associated with biases on tasks involving elaboration. Second, most models of mood-congruent bias have given purely cognitive explanations; these models suggest that biases should be more closely associated with the cognitive symptoms than the somatic symptoms of depression (Horowitz, Nelson, & Person, 1997). Evidence is reviewed that suggests this may not be the case. These issues were examined in two experiments, each of which administered a broad range of tasks to a large sample of students. The experiments examined attention and judgement, and explicit, implicit, and autobiographical memory. It was hypothesised that Williams et al.'s (1988, 1997) predictions about the task-specific effects of anxiety and depression would be confirmed, and that the somatic symptoms of depression would have a greater influence on information processing biases than the cognitive symptoms. Emotion-congruent biases were not shown on every task, but on the tasks where biases were shown, the hypotheses were broadly confirmed. Strengths, limitations, and implications of the studies are discussed. Current cognitive and neuropsychological models of emotion are used to provide a possible explanation of the results.</p>

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Behavioral and cognitive treatment methods: A critical comparative review

Cited by 79 publications

References 62 publications

Back to basics: could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review

Back to basics: could behavioural therapy be a good treatment option for youth depression? A critical review

Behavioral activation treatment for depression: Returning to contextual roots.

Components of Negative Emotion and Emotion-Congruent Information Processing Biases

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