Tag Archives: cognitive behavioural therapy
Computer CBT programmes for depression ‘of no benefit’
Computer CBT programmes for depression ‘of no benefit’, by Caroline Price in Pulse, 12 November 2015 Offering people a computer-based cognitive behavioural therapy programme for depression did nothing to improve their symptoms, according to a study by York University academics published in … Continue reading
The chokehold behavioural treatments have on ME/CFS
American health blogger Cort Johnson looks at which ME/CFS treatment studies have been published since the start of 2013. He highlights that there has been a lack of drug studies and that most of the these studies were small. Extracts: “With … Continue reading
To future GPs – psychosomatic should not be the default suspicion re ME/CFS
Time to swot up on chronic fatigue – Future general practitioners need to be made aware that “psychosomatic” should not be the default suspicion, by Michael Brooks in the New Statesman, Nov 12 2015 Around 250,000 people in the UK suffer from … Continue reading
Norwegian professors question GET & CBT as interventions for ME
Article extracts: The assessment and treatment of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in Norway is, according to a SINTEF study from 2011 highly inadequate: There is a lack of expertise within the social, welfare and healthcare … Continue reading
The challenge of treating depression & CFS/ME in children
Research abstract PROBLEM: Up to one in three young people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) also has depressive symptoms. It is not known how best to treat young people with this comorbidity. METHOD: This case report seeks to describe and … Continue reading
ME Action launches petition to retract the PACE trial
Petition: Misleading PACE claims should be retracted TO: THE LANCET, PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, AND THE AUTHORS OF THE PACE TRIAL Given the weak and flawed methodologies of the PACE trial, which claims that CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and GET (graded exercise) led … Continue reading
Implications of trauma for CFS treatment
Research abstract: Chronic fatigue syndrome is a case definition for conditions of chronic, disabling physical and mental fatigue which are not fully explained by medical or psychiatric causes (NICE, 2007). There has been much controversy over both the case definition and … Continue reading
Group CBT for CFS
Research abstract: BACKGROUND: Meta-analyses have been inconclusive about the efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapies (CBTs) delivered in groups of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) due to a lack of adequate studies. METHODS: We conducted a pragmatic randomised controlled trial … Continue reading
Review of interventions for CFS
Review abstract: Introduction: Chronic fatigue syndrome affects between 0.006% and 3% of the population depending on the criteria of definition used, with women being at higher risk than men. Methods and outcomes: We conducted a systematic overview, aiming to answer … Continue reading
