Cognitive Therapy for Depression

Abstract

Thirty-one community-residing older adults age 60 or over either received 16 sessions of individual cognitive psychotherapy (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979) or read Feeling Good (Bums, 1980) for bibliotherapy. Posttreatment comparisons with the delayed-treatment control indicated that both treatments were superior to a delayed-treatment control. Individual psychotherapy was superior to bibliotherapy at posttreatment on self-reported depression, but there were no differences on clinician-rated depression. Further, bibliotherapy participants continued to improve after posttreatment. and there were no differences between treatments at 3-month follow-up. Results suggest that bibliotherapy and that individual psychotherapy are both viable treatment options for depression in older adults.

Bibliotherapy for low sexual desire: Evidence for effectiveness.

“…Another methodological shortcoming is the large (28.6%) posttest attrition rate in the intervention group. Albeit similar to the 30%-35% intervention group attrition rate found in other studies of bibliotherapy (e.g., Floyd, Scogin, McKendree-Smith, Floyd, & Rokke, 2004;Malouff, Noble, Schutte, & Bhullar, 2010) and nearly identical to the 28.9% rate found in a study on bibliotherapy for life-long vaginismus (van Lankveld et al, 2006), and whereas a 30% dropout rate is not unusual for treatment studies (Elkin, 1994), attempts should still be made to diminish these rates. Future studies would benefit from providing an incentive for those in the intervention group to take the posttest measures.…”

Exploring the Efficacy of Cognitive Bibliotherapy and a Potential Mechanism of Change in the Treatment of Depressive Symptoms Among the Chinese: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…The lower BDI-II cutoff point, based on previous studies (e.g., Jamison and Scogin 1995;Rohen 2002), was used to prevent very mild cases from entering the study. As for the upper cutoff point, previous studies did not provide an agreed-upon criterion: While some studies (e.g., Ackerson et al 1998) did not set an upper cutoff point, some (e.g., Floyd et al 2004) required that their participants meet a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; APA 1994) diagnosis of major depressive disorder or Dysthymia, and some (e.g., Stice et al 2006) excluded participants whose BDI scores exceeded 30. In the present study, we excluded individuals whose BDI-II scores exceeded 47, which, according to the psychometric data on the Chinese version of BDI-II (Lu et al 2002), represents the midpoint of the severe depression range (31-63).…”

“…Using this approach, individuals would receive a standardized self-help book and work it through independently (Cuijpers 1997). The accumulating evidence suggests that bibliotherapy is an effective treatment modality (Cuijpers 1997;Gould and Clum 1993;Lovell and Richards 2000;Shechtman 2006;Williams 2003), for individuals ranging in age from adolescents (Ackerson et al 1998) to older adults (Floyd et al 2004;Gregory et al 2004;McKendreeSmith et al 2003;Scogin et al 1990Scogin et al , 1989. There is also support for parent-implemented bibliotherapy for children Rapee et al 2006).…”

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“…At 2-year follow-up, approximately three-quarters of the participants felt less depressed than they had initially and half continued to use the bibliotherapy materials (Scogin, Jamison, & Davis, 1990). In a comparison of bibliotherapy and individual cognitive therapy, both were more effective than the control group and showed decreases in selfreported depression with no differences between the two treatment groups (Floyd et al, 2004).…”