Prediction of Cognitive Behavior Treatment Outcome for Children with Anxiety Disorders: Therapeutic Relationship and Homework Compliance

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia A. Hughes ◽  
Philip C. Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Specific Factor ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Homework Compliance

We examined a non-specific or relationship variable as well as a specific or technical variable (i.e. homework compliance) and their prediction of cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) outcome for children with anxiety disorders. Therapist ratings of the therapeutic relationship (TR), but not homework compliance (HC) predicted CBT outcome at posttreatment (n = 138) and at 1-year follow-up (n = 121) for anxious children (aged 9 to 13 years). Findings from this study suggest the therapeutic relationship is a hardy non-specific factor in CBT of anxious children. Implications for the treatment of children with anxiety disorders using CBT and recommendations for research are offered.

The Impact of Cognitive Interventions in Treating Depressed Breast Cancer Patients

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek R. Hopko ◽  
Lindsey K. Colman
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Cognitive Interventions ◽  
Treatment Gains ◽  
The Impact

In behavioral medicine, there is adequate support for behavior modification strategies in reducing depression and anxiety in medical patients. There is comparably less support for cognitive interventions with these patients. Treatment outcome studies with cancer patients generally support the efficacy of cognitive–behavioral interventions, but studies have significant methodological limitations. Additionally, cognitive–behavioral therapy for depression incorporates numerous treatment components, and when examining data with nomothetic statistics, important individual differences may go unrecognized. With reference to the sudden gain literature on significant session-by-session treatment gains, this paper highlights the cognitive–behavioral treatment of two breast cancer patients with clinical depression. In addition to positive treatment outcome in which depression was significantly reduced and quality of life and medical outcomes improved, session-based sudden change data suggest that for these cancer patients, cognitive interventions were most significant in accounting for treatment gains. Findings are reviewed in the context of mechanism of change issues in the cognitive–behavioral treatment of depression.

A Comparison of Secular and Religious Versions of Cognitive Therapy with Depressed Christian College Students

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Richard Pecheur ◽  
Keith J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Modification ◽  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Waiting List ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Cognitive Behavior Modification ◽  
Treatment Of Depression

This study was designed to answer two related questions: (a) Could Beck's cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression be efficaciously employed in a religious population, and (b) would the efficacy of Beck's cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression be enhanced if it was integrated with the subjects’ religious beliefs? A multiple cutoff procedure was utilized in the selection of subjects for a secular cognitive behavior modification group, a religious cognitive behavior modification group, and a waiting list control group. The results indicated that the secular and the religious cognitive behavior modification groups were significantly more effective than the waiting list control group in alleviating depression. No significant differences were found between secular and the religious cognitive behavior modification groups. The reductions in depression were maintained at a one-month follow-up. The results relevant to Beck's cognitive-behavioral therapy of depression and to the treatment of religious patients are discussed.

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