Systematic Reviews of Psychotherapy

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy.

Reviewed March 2009

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Title:   Psychological interventions for depression in adolescent and adult congenital heart disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sometimes young adults and adults who are born with heart problems grow up and have depression. Treatments to help them other than anti-depressant drugs include psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapies and talking therapies. Benefits to having tre...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Music for stress and anxiety reduction in coronary heart disease patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Individuals with coronary heart disease often suffer from severe distress putting them at greater risk for complications, including sudden cardiac death. This review included 23 randomized controlled trials with a total of 1461 participants. The finding...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Group behaviour therapy programmes for smoking cessation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Group programmes are more effective for helping people to stop smoking than being given self-help materials without face-to-face instruction and group support. The chances of quitting are approximately doubled. It is unclear whether groups are better th...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Psychological treatments for the management of irritable bowel syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In this review, the effectiveness of psychological therapies for adult patients with irritable bowel syndrome was evaluated. Studies involving cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and relaxation therapy or stress management were re...
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Psychosocial combined with agonist maintenance treatments versus agonist maintenance treatments alone for treatment of opioid dependence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The abuse of opioid drugs and drug dependency are major health and social issues. Maintenance treatments with pharmacological agents can help to reduce the risks associated with the use of street drugs for drug addicts who are unable to abstain from dru...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for prevention of psychological disorders in law enforcement officers
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People working in law enforcement are subject to many things that can act as work stressors. These include aspects of their job that are linked to operational factors (job content) and aspects that are linked to organizational factors (job context). A w...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Morita therapy for schizophrenia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Schizophrenia is a long-term, chronic illness with a high disability rate and disease burden. Treatment for schizophrenia should focus on the wider social aspects of living in the community in addition to medicating the immediate symptoms of this long-t...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Interventions for treating depression after stroke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antidepressant drugs may be useful in treating depression after stroke, but also cause side effects. Depression is common after stroke and may be treated with antidepressant medication or psychological therapy. This review of 16 trials, including 1655 p...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Inpatient versus other settings for detoxification for opioid dependence
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Dependence on opioid drugs, such as heroin, morphine, and codeine, is a serious problem in many societies. Opioids are very difficult to quit using. The first step to quitting is detoxification, which can cause a number of painful symptoms as the drug w...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Psychological therapies for thalassaemia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Thalassaemia is a group of genetic blood disorders. Blood transfusion is needed to treat severe forms of the condition, but this results in a high level of iron in the body. This excess iron is usually removed by drugs through 'chelation therapy'. Other...
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for women enrolled in alcohol treatment during pregnancy.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Pregnancy can be seen as a window of opportunity where women may seek treatment for their addictions out of concern for their unborn child. Worldwide estimates of alcohol usage report that a large proportion of women continue to drink during their pregn...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Interventions for preventing depression after stroke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The role of interventions for preventing depression after stroke is unclear. Depression is a common and important complication of stroke that is often missed or poorly managed. Little is known about whether treatment started early after stroke will redu...
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Individual psychotherapy in the outpatient treatment of adults with anorexia nervosa
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review aimed to assess evidence about the effects of outpatient psychotherapy on older adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa. Although anorexia nervosa is a severe and disabling disorder, only seven trials were found. The trials used differe...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Psychotherapy for depression among incurable cancer patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Depressive states represent frequent complications among cancer patients and are more common amongst advanced cancer patients. Psychotherapy comprises of various interventions for ameliorating or preventing psychological distress conducted by direct ver...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Non-pharmacological interventions for breathlessness in advanced stages of malignant and non-malignant diseases
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Shortness of breath is a common and distressing symptom in incurable cancer and some other illnesses at the end of life. Overall shortness of breath towards the end of life is still difficult to treat. Appropriate treatment of this distressing symptom r...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for the prevention of disability following traumatic physical injury
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Traumatic physical injury such as that resulting from road traffic accidents, falls and fires can cause high levels of subsequent disability in the person affected. This may include physical disability as a result of the initial injury and subsequent co...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Music therapy for depression
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Music therapy has been used in a range of ways to treat depression. Approaches can be active or receptive: active techniques might be used when participants cannot articulate difficult feelings. Here the therapist uses clinical techniques to connect wit...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Psychotherapeutic treatments for older depressed people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Depression is a common problem facing older people and is often associated with loneliness, physical illness and pain. The condition can last for some years and causes considerable distress and illness. A significant majority of depressed elders do not ...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Psychological interventions for women with metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For women with metastatic breast cancer (cancer that has spread beyond the breast) several types of psychological interventions may be available. These include educational and psychotherapeutic interventions, support groups and individual cognitive beha...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for pregnant women in outpatient illicit drug treatment programs compared to other interventions
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in pregnant women enrolled in illicit drug treatment programs.Women who use illicit drugs while pregnant are more likely to give birth early and have low weight infants that are at risk of neonatal abstine...
Date:   Aug 2007
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