Systematic Reviews of Psychotherapy

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

Reviewed May 2011

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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:   Nov 2011
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:   Aug 2011
Title:   Music interventions for improving psychological and physical outcomes in cancer patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Having cancer may result in intense emotional, physical and social suffering. Music therapy and music medicine interventions have been used to alleviate symptoms and treatment side effects in cancer patients. In music medicine interventions, the patient...
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Interventions for treating anxiety after stroke
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Anxiety after stroke occurs frequently and can be treated with antidepressants, other anxiety reducing drugs, or psychological therapy. This review of two trials, which included 175 participants, found that antidepressant and anxiety reducing drugs decr...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Biofeedback for pain management during labour
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Biofeedback is a therapy that aims to train women to recognise some body signals such as heart rate, muscular tension or temperature and, in consequence, change their body responses with the aid of electronic instruments that give a signal. It is an alt...
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Motivational interviewing for substance abuse
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   More than 76 million people worldwide have alcohol problems, and another 15 million have drug problems. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a psychological treatment that aims to help people cut down or stop using drugs and alcohol. The drug abuser and co...
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Psychological treatments for epilepsy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No reliable evidence supports psychological treatments for people with epilepsy. Psychological interventions are used in attempts to reduce seizure frequency, improve quality of life and avoid adverse effects of drugs among people with epilepsy. Of the ...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Music therapy for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Music therapy is a therapeutic method that uses music experiences to help people with serious mental disorders to develop relationships and to address issues they may not be able to using words alone. Studies to date have examined the effects of music t...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for premature ejaculation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Premature ejaculation is a frequent sexual dysfunction. It is characterized by ejaculation that always or nearly always occurs prior to or within about one minute of vaginal penetration. It is also characterized by the inability to delay ejaculation on ...
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Feedback or biofeedback to augment pelvic floor muscle training for urinary incontinence in women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women of all ages are affected by urinary incontinence. A common treatment is pelvic floor muscle exercises (also called pelvic floor muscle training) where the pelvic floor muscles are squeezed and lifted then relaxed several times in a row, up to thre...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Combined pharmacotherapy and psychological therapies for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   PTSD is a potentially debilitating anxiety disorder triggered by exposure to a traumatic experience such as an interpersonal event like physical or sexual assault, exposure to disaster or accidents, combat or witnessing a traumatic event. There are thre...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Psychological interventions for treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review examined the effect of psychological interventions in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) on health related quality of life, emotional state and disease activity. Overall, 21 studies were includ...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Psychological and pharmacological interventions for depression in patients with coronary artery disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review examined clinical trials on psychological treatments and antidepressant drugs in depressed patients with coronary artery disease. The objective was to determine the effects of these treatments on depression, death rates, cardiac events such ...
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Psychological therapies for sickle cell disease and pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sickle cell disease is a group of blood disorders. It can cause anaemia, which if severe can reduce mobility. It may also allow small blood vessels to become blocked causing pain in muscle and bone and it can damage major organs such as the spleen, live...
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Heart attacks and cardiac surgery may be frightening and traumatic, and can lead some patients to experience psychological problems. In addition, some psychological characteristics are linked to the development and progression of cardiac complaints. Psy...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   -Non-pharmacological interventions for wandering of people with dementia in the domestic setting
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No randomised controlled trials were found that proved or disproved the efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions for the prevention or management of wandering in the domestic setting. Trials of music therapy, bright light therapy, reality orientati...
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Psychological interventions for symptomatic management of non-specific chest pain in patients with normal coronary anatomy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Recurrent chest pain in the absence of coronary artery disease is a common, difficult to treat problem that sometimes leads to excess use of medical care. A substantial number of patients are not reassured by negative medical assessment, reporting persi...
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Individual psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for schizophrenia and severe mental illness
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Psychodynamic treatment is an intervention that can be classed as one of the 'talking' therapies. The relationship between the person seeking therapy and the therapist form the main component of the therapy. Its use for people with schizophrenia as a so...
Date:   Feb 2009
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

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