Integrating Sex Therapy Interventions with Couple Therapy

This conceptual/clinical paper presents a couple, integrative, psychobiosocial model of assessment, treatment, and relapse prevention for common sexual dysfunctions. The goal is to encourage couple therapists to integrate sexual permission-giving, scientifically and clinically relevant sexual information and guidelines, and specific sexual suggestions/interventions into their couple work. The artificial barriers between couple and sex therapy is to the detriment of couples who need to address intimacy and sexuality problems.     

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Play Therapy Techniques

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy provides a framework for understanding children's behaviors in terms of attachment needs of comfort and support. However, when working with young children, play therapy is often developmentally preferred over “talk therapy.” By integrating play therapy techniques within an Emotionally Focused Family Therapy theoretical framework, therapists can help parents understand and meet their child's needs for affection and comfort. This article will discuss how play therapy techniques can be integrated with an Emotionally Focused Family Therapy theoretical framework for work with young children and their families.     

Beyond Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Process-Based Therapy

The Psychological Record - This article describes process-based therapy (PBT) as a natural evolution toward more effective and efficient mental health care. Using acceptance and commitment therapy...     

Feminist Therapy

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Couples Therapy

The authors propose a more comprehensive definition of couples therapy since parenting and individual issues can impact so forcefully on spousal relationships. Couples therapy, is redefined as a therapy with both spouses concerning their individual, parenting, and marital functioning which is conducted in conjoint marital/family sessions and individual meetings with each spouse. A case example illustrates this approach which is called Comprehensive Family Therapy.     

Wilderness Therapy

Wilderness therapy is neither a newcomer nor a fringe therapy-it originates from wilderness challenge programs that were established in 1945, and it has been applied to clinical populations in the United States since the 1960s. Its efficacy, particularly in work with adolescent populations, is supported by a solid body of research. Its therapeutic application to survivors of incest, rape, and battering is, however, very recent (early 1980s), as is its specific application to empowerment of women (mid 1980s). After a brief review of the general wilderness therapy model, this paper turns to a consideration of wilderness therapy in work with survivors of abuse and empowerment for women. The author draws on the voices of women who have experienced wilderness as healing and empowering, and includes her own voice, to explore two distinct components of wilderness therapy-the healing effects of specific therapeutic activities and challenges in a novel environment, and the more elusive spiritual healing effects of a newly found or renewed sense of connectedness with the power of the earth.     

Development of Family Therapy and Systemic Therapy in Germany

The roots of systemic therapy in Germany date back to the sixties. Systemic therapy is one of the most widely applied forms of psychotherapy and counseling in Germany. The majority of therapists and counselors in child guidance centers, couples therapy counseling centers and youth protective services have been trained in systemic therapy. A high number of clinical psychologists, social workers and medical doctors have received training in this model of therapy. In the beginning, multigenerational, experiential, as well as structural-strategic and Milan systemic approaches were popular. Today, the post-modern systems concepts, solution-oriented and narrative approaches and self-organization theory appear to be predominant. Some centers provide research and training in behavioral and psychodynamic family and couples therapy. However, systemic approaches are clearly leading the field with over 10,000 people who have received systemic training and about 150 training institutes across the country. The critical attitude shared by many leading figures towards empirical research has limited its success in university programs. In addition, training is usually provided in the form of post-graduate courses rather than at academic institutions. Currently, three journals and one online-journal publish articles on various systemic topics. Many publishing houses have a series of books on systemic therapy and one publishing house specializes exclusively on systems oriented books. In 2008, systemic therapy gained recognition as an evidence-based treatment. Four years later, the appropriate authorities have not initiated the process of assessing it as a treatment paid for by public health insurances. In consequence, systemic therapy is not available on a large scale in the public outpatient psychotherapy system. Some additional remarks are provided on the history and current situation of systemic therapy in Austria and Switzerland.     

Gestalt Therapy and Feminist Therapy: A Proposed Integration

A proposal is offered for integrating the Gestalt goals of self-responsibility with a feminist perspective that places value on the web of relationships in women's lives and focuses attention on the environmental constraints and socialization that affect women's choices.     

美托洛尔常规治疗与基因导向治疗高血压病的比较

比较基因导向美托洛尔个体化治疗与常规治疗高血压病的临床疗效、安全性和经济性。从300例1或2级原发性高血压患者中随机抽取165例进入常规治疗组（A组,n＝165）,其余135例患者进行CYP2D6基因、β1肾上腺素能受体（β1-AR）基因多态性检测,将β1-AR基因389位携带了Arg等位基因的原发性高血压患者133例分入基因导向治疗组（B组,n＝133）;基因导向治疗组患者按照CYP2D6基因分型分为弱代谢组（PMB,n=43）、中等代谢组（IMB,n=54）和强代谢组（EMB,n=36）。常规治疗组给予美托洛尔100mg/日,基因导向治疗组中PMB组、IMB组、EMB组分别给予美托洛尔25 mg/d、100mg/d、200mg/d,均分2次口服降压治疗,共随访8周,观察血压和不良反应等指标。应用成本-效果分析方法对基因导向型个体化治疗方案进行药物经济学评估。结果为基因导向治疗组降压总有效率明显高于常规治疗组（65.08% vs 47.4%, P＜0.05）;基因导向治疗组的不良反应发生率明显低于常规治疗组（P＜0.05）。成本效果分析,基因导向治疗组的平均成本效果比稍高于常规治疗组（350.05 vs 249.96）,与常规治疗组相比增量成本效果比（ICERs）为618.38。依据基因导向的前瞻性美托洛尔个体化降压治疗较传统给药模式更为安全、有效,但短期治疗难以体现其更优的经济学价值。     

森田疗法与认知行为疗法的比较分析

阐述森田疗法和认知行为疗法的基本理论,在此基础上对两种疗法作比较分析。尽管这两种心理治疗方法在治疗程序和具体操作方法上迥然不同,但在发病机制的解释和治疗原理方面,它们又有很多相似之处,对存在这种现象的原因进行了探讨。