Cognitive behaviour therapy more effective for SAD patients.Byline: ANI Washington, Oct 17 (ANI): An American psychologist The American Psychologist is the official journal of the American Psychological Association. It contains archival documents and articles covering current issues in psychology, the science and practice of psychology, and psychology's contribution to public policy. has found that cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT (Computer-Based Training) Using the computer for training and instruction. CBT programs are called "courseware" and provide interactive training sessions for all disciplines. ) is better than light therapy at preventing recurrence of seasonal affective disorder seasonal affective disorder (SAD), recurrent fall or winter depression characterized by excessive sleeping, social withdrawal, depression, overeating, and pronounced weight gain. (SAD), a form of acute depression that occurs annually during the autumn and winter. Kelly Rohan, a psychologist at the University of Vermont, has become the first person to publish a study of the long-term effects of various cures for SAD. The research appears in the September issue of the journal Behavior Therapy behavior therapy or behavior modification, in psychology, treatment of human behavioral disorders through the reinforcement of acceptable behavior and suppression of undesirable behavior. . In the first year, Rohan randomized ran·dom·ize tr.v. ran·dom·ized, ran·dom·iz·ing, ran·dom·iz·es To make random in arrangement, especially in order to control the variables in an experiment. 69 people suffering with SAD into one of four groups viz. light therapy treatment, cognitive behavior therapy, a combination of the two or a wait-list control. After a year she reviewed the progress of the patients. She found only 7 percent of those who had received CBT had a recurrence of SAD compared to 36.7 percent of people given light therapies. Of those receiving a mix of the two therapies the recurrence rate was only 5.5 percent. Rohan also found that even in cases where SAD had resurfaced in patients after taking CBT, its severity was much less. An earlier study had shown combination therapy to be more effective, but Rohan says this was because constant monitoring ensured the participants followed the therapies regularly, which is almost never the case when they are left on their own. Her study even shows that people rarely follow therapies regularly over the long-term. She said: "People treated with only CBT - that's all they know... so I think they do it with gusto GUSTO Cardiology A series of clinical trials that have examined a series of strategies to reduce the M&M of acute MI; the GUSTOs include: Global Utilization of Streptokinase & tPA for Occluded coronary arteries trial–GUSTO I; Global Use of Strategies in the next year and reap the benefits." And added: "The combination therapy may blow your socks off across six weeks of the initial winter.... but if it doesn't have good long-term outcomes, what is the point? This is a recurrent depression. It's going to come back every year in some form and I want to develop treatments that are going to have lasting effects." (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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