American Journal of Psychotherapy

Publication date: 28 November 2023

Objective: Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy (IPSRT) was developed to empower patients with mood disorders by stabilizing underlying disturbances in circadian rhythms and by using strategies from interpersonal psychotherapy. Group IPSRT has not been ...

Publication date: 10 January 2024

Objective: Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) has been proposed for prevention of excess weight gain among adolescents with loss-of-control (LOC) eating. Mixed findings from a trial testing this conjecture warrant elucidation of potential outcome ...

Publication date: 19 October 2023

Current treatments for trauma are ineffective for many patients. For traumas involving violence that targets aspects of patients’ identities, treatments that do not address systemic factors involved in the trauma (e.g., past and ongoing experiences of ...

Publication date: 06 September 2023

Bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder commonly co-occur. Each disorder is associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, which are worsened by co-occurrence of the disorders. Emotional dysregulation, suicidality, and disrupted ...

Publication date: 14 December 2023

Although therapist empathy has long been recognized as one of the most important ingredients of successful psychotherapy, its role in the treatment of schizophrenia has been neglected, relative to the treatment of other psychiatric disorders. In this ...

Publication date: 19 May 2023

Objective: The aim of this report is to describe how trainees and instructors skew their performance of psychotherapies when sessions are observed by third parties and to discuss approaches to mitigate potentially adverse consequences. Methods: To supplement ...

Publication date: 24 October 2023

Publication date: 10 January 2024