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Updated 01/13/2006

• 100 links to psychotherapy-related articles at the web site of the American Psychological Association An automated Google search
• Co-Occurring Disorders Articles about dual diagnosis of substance abuse and mental disorders and how this is addressed in evidence-based treatment
• Cognitive Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder With Mary Anne Layden, PhD. Transcript of a video series from APA gives a look into therapy sessions. This is just one of a big series; see list below
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy From NAMI, the National Association on Mental Illness
• Dual Diagnosis Website Kathleen Sciacca's site devoted to co-occurring substance abuse and mental illness
• The Efficacy of Psychotherapy From APA Online. Reviews data from 1980 survey of 475 controlled studies, finds "Behavior and psychodynamic verbal therapies appeared to be superior"
• How to Find Help Through Psychotherapy From the American Psychological Association
• Medications -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #21, -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #29, -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #51
• New Age Psychotherapies Scathing assessment from The Skeptic's Dictionary
• Normality -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #22
• Psychotherapies -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #53, -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #86
• Psychotherapies: can we tell the difference? From the Harvard Mental Health Letter, October 2002. Abstract only, but it can be summed up in one line: "Despite labels, different kinds of psychotherapy are often almost indistinguishable in practice."
• Psychotherapy and Older Adults Resource Guide From APA Online
• Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorder (August, 2003) "At least 5 psychotherapy approaches for bipolar disorder have been recently been shown to be of benefit when added to medications, compared to medications alone."
• Psychotherapy research listed at ClinicalTrials.gov An automatically updated list of all ongoing government-backed research on psychotherapies in the U.S.
• Referrals -- AACAP Facts for Families Brochure #25
• Self-Help A comprehensive online self-help textbook from Clayton Tucker-Ladd & Mental Health Net
• Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series The American Psychological Association has produced several video series showing a wide variety of psychotherapies. They are for sale, of course, but the APA has included so much information from transcripts free online that this constitutes a major resource for people wishing to compare different psychotherapies. Here are some topics covered in the first two series as of 2004.

  Series I: Systems of Psychotherapy

  • Laura S. Brown, PhD: Feminist Therapy
  • Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD: Ethnocultural Psychotherapy
  • Donald K. Freedheim, PhD: Short-Term Dynamic Therapy
  • Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD: Cognitive-Affective Behavior Therapy
  • Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD: Process Experiential Psychotherapy
  • Bertram P. Karon, PhD: Effective Psychoanalytic Therapy of Schizophrenia and Other Severe Disorders
  • Florence W. Kaslow, PhD: Individual Therapy From a Family Systems Perspective
  • Arnold A. Lazarus, PhD: Multimodal Therapy
  • Alvin R. Mahrer, PhD: Experiential Psychotherapy
  • John C. Norcross, PhD: Prescriptive Eclectic Therapy
  • Jacqueline B. Persons, PhD: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
  • Nathaniel J. Raskin, PhD: Client-Centered Therapy

  Series II: Specific Problems and Populations

  • Jane Annunziata, PsyD: Play Therapy With a Six-Year-Old
  • Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD: Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
  • David M. Clark, DPhil: Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder
  • Richard A. Gardner, MD: Psychotherapy of Children With Conduct Disorders Using Games and Stories
  • Mary Anne Layden, PhD: Cognitive Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Don-David Lusterman, PhD: Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs
  • G. Alan Marlatt, PhD: Cognitive-Behavioral Relapse Prevention for Addictions
  • Susan H. McDaniel, PhD: Family Therapy With Patients Having Physical Health Problems
  • Alice K. Rubenstein, EdD: Practical Psychotherapy With Adolescents
  • Francine Shapiro, PhD: EMDR for Trauma: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
  • Samuel M. Turner, PhD: Behavior Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD: Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for an Impulse Problem

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