This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Scott Stuart, MD
University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry 200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City, IA 52242

Michael W. O'Hara, PhD
Iowa City

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1995;52(1):75-76.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In the past decade, psychotherapy researchers have focused on the use of short-term manualized psychosocial treatments for a number of psychiatric disorders and have emphasized empirical treatment trials that have demonstrated the efficacy of a number of psychotherapeutic treatments. There has been a growing appreciation that psychotherapeutic treatment must be tailored to specific disorders and that it must be carefully matched to the characteristics of individual patients as well.¹ Pressure to reduce health care costs and the appearance of newer psychopharmacologic agents with less toxic side effects, however, have led to an emphasis on the use of psychotherapy for conditions for which there are as yet no effective medications (eg, the use of cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal psychotherapy [IPT] for eating disorders^2,3) or for conditions for which medication is relatively contraindicated, such as the use of IPT for conditions such as depression in geriatric patients^4,5 and in pregnant . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?