Affect-focused psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression and anxiety through the internet: A randomized controlled trial

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Johansson, Robert ^a   Björklund, Martin ^a   Hornborg, Christoffer ^a   Karlsson, Stina ^a   Hesser, Hugo ^a   Ljótsson, Brjánn ^b   Rousseau, Andréas ^c   Frederick, Ronald J ^d   Andersson, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Center for Courageous Living   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Anxiety; Depression; E health; Emotion; Internet; Internet delivered treatments; Psychodynamic therapy; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL PROCESSING SCALE; FEMALE; FIVE FACETS OF MINDFULNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER SCALE; HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOBIA; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAINING;

EID: 84884804765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.102     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Abbass A, Town J, Driessen E. 2012. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcome research. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 20:97-108 DOI 10.3109/10673229.2012.677347.
2. Andersson G. 2009. Using the Internet to provide cognitive behaviour therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy 47:175-180 DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2009.01.010.
3. Andersson G, Paxling B, Roch-Norlund P, Östman G, Norgren A, Almlöv J, Georén L, Breitholtz E, Dahlin M, Cuijpers P, Carlbring P, Silverberg F. 2012. Internet-based psychodynamic vs. cognitive behavioural guided self-help for generalized anxiety disorder: a randomised controlled trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 81:344-355 DOI 10.1159/000339371.
4. Baer RA, Smith GT, Hopkins J, Krietemeyer J, Toney L. 2006. Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment 13:27-45 DOI 10.1177/1073191105283504.
5. Baker R, Thomas S, Thomas PW, Gower P, Santonastaso M, Whittlesea A. 2010. The emotional processing scale: scale refinement and abridgement (EPS-25). Journal of Psychosomatic Research 68:83-88 DOI 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.07.007.
6. Barlow DH, Allen LB, Choate ML. 2004. Toward a unified treatment for emotional disorders. Behavior Therapy 35:205-230 DOI 10.1016/S0005-7894(04)80036-4.
7. Bergström J, Andersson G, Ljótsson B, Rück C, Andréewitch S, Karlsson A, Carlbring P, Andersson E, Lindefors N. 2010. Internet-versus group-administered cognitive behaviour therapy for panic disorder in a psychiatric setting: a randomised trial. BMC Psychiatry 10:54 DOI 10.1186/1471-244X-10-54.
8. Berking M, Ebert D, Cuijpers P, Hofmann SG. 2013. Emotion regulation skills training enhances the efficacy of inpatient cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 82:234-245 DOI 10.1159/000348448.
9. Borenstein M, Hedges LV, Higgins JPT, Rothstein HR. 2009. Introduction to meta- analysis. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
10. Bryant RA, Mastrodomenico J, Hopwood S, Kenny L, Cahill C, Kandris E, Taylor K. 2013. Augmenting cognitive behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder with emotion tolerance training: a randomized controlled trial. Psychological Medicine 1-8 DOI 10.1017/S0033291713000068.
11. Cohen J. 1988. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences, 2nd ed. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
12. Craske MG. 2012. Transdiagnostic treatment for anxiety and depression. Depression and Anxiety 29:749-753 DOI 10.1002/da.21992.
13. Cuijpers P, Donker T, Van Straten A, Li J, Andersson G. 2010. Is guided self- help as effective as face-to-face psychotherapy for depression and anxiety disorders? A systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative outcome studies. Psychological Medicine 40:1943-1957 DOI 10.1017/S0033291710000772.
14. Davanloo H. 2000. Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: selected papers of Habib Davanloo. Chichester: Wiley.
15. Diener MJ, Hilsenroth MJ, Weinberger J. 2007. Therapist affect focus and patient outcomes in psychodynamic psychotherapy: a meta-analysis. The American Journal of Psychiatry 164:936-941 DOI 10.1176/appi.ajp.164.6.936.
16. Dornelas E, Ferrand J, Stepnowski R, Barbagallo J, McCullough L. 2010. A pilot study of affect-focused psychotherapy for antepartum depression. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration 20:364-382 DOI 10.1037/a0022035.
17. Driessen E, Cuijpers P, DeMaat SCM, Abbass A, De Jonghe F, Dekker JJM. 2010. The efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for depression: a meta- analysis. Clinical Psychology Review 30:25-36 DOI 10.1016/j.cpr.2009.08.010.
18. Ebmeier KP, Donaghey C, Steele JD. 2006. Recent developments and current controversies in depression. Lancet 367:153-167 DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67964-6.
19. Fann JR, Berry DL, Wolpin S, Austin-Seymour M, Bush N, Halpenny B, Lober WB, McCorkle R. 2009. Depression screening using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 administered on a touch screen computer. Psycho-oncology 18:14-22 DOI 10.1002/pon.1368.
20. Farchione TJ, Fairholme CP, Ellard KK, Boisseau CL, Thompson-Hollands J, Carl JR, Gallagher MW, Barlow DH. 2012. Unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: a randomized controlled trial. Behavior Therapy 43:666-678 DOI 10.1016/j.beth.2012.01.001.
21. Fosha D. 2000. The transforming power of affect: a model for accelerated change. New York: BasicBooks.
22. Frederick RJ. 2009. Living like you mean it: use the wisdom and power of your emotions to get the life you really want. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
23. Graham JW. 2009. Missing data analysis: making it work in the real world. Annual Review of Psychology 60:549-576 DOI 10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085530.
24. Gueorguieva R, Krystal JH. 2004. Move over ANOVA: progress in analyzing repeated-measures data and its reflection in papers published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Archives of General Psychiatry 61:310-317 DOI 10.1001/archpsyc.61.3.310.
25. Guy W. 1976. Clinical global impressions. ECDEU assessment manual for psychopharmacology. Rockville: NIMH.
26. Hedman E, Ljótsson B, Lindefors N. 2012. Cognitive behavior therapy via the Internet: a systematic review of applications, clinical efficacy and cost- effectiveness. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research 12:745-764 DOI 10.1586/erp.12.67.
27. Hedman E, Ljótsson B, Rück C, Bergström J, Andersson G, Kaldo V, Jansson L, Andersson E, BlomK, El Alaoui S, Falk L, Ivarsson J, Nasri B, Rydh S, Lindefors N. 2013. Effectiveness of Internet-based cognitive behaviour therapy for panic disorder in routine psychiatric care. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Epub ahead of print Feb 14 2013 DOI 10.1111/acps.12079.
28. Johansson R, Andersson G. 2012. Internet-based psychological treatments for depression. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics 12:861-870 DOI 10.1586/ern.12.63.
29. Johansson R, Ekbladh S, Hebert A, Lindström M, Möller S, Petitt E, Poysti S, Larsson MH, Rousseau A, Carlbring P, Cuijpers P, Andersson G. 2012. Psychodynamic guided self-help for adult depression through the internet: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS ONE 7:e38021 DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0038021.
30. Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Merikangas KR, Walters EE. 2005. Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry 62:593-602 DOI 10.1001/archpsyc.62.6.593.
31. Kessler RC, Merikangas KR, Wang PS. 2007. Prevalence, comorbidity, and service utilization for mood disorders in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 3:137-158 DOI 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.3.022806.091444.
32. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JB. 2001. The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine 16:606-613 DOI 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016009606.x.
33. Kroenke K, Spitzer RL, Williams JBW, Löwe B. 2010. The patient health questionnaire somatic, anxiety, and depressive symptom scales: a systematic review. General Hospital Psychiatry 32:345-359 DOI 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2010.03.006.
34. Leichsenring F, Salzer S, Beutel ME, Herpertz S, Hiller W, Hoyer J, Huesing J, Joraschky P, Nolting B, Poehlmann K, Ritter V, Stangier U, Strauss B, Stuhldreher N, Tefikow S, Teismann T, Willutzki U, Wiltink J, Leibing E. 2013. Psychodynamic therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. The American Journal of Psychiatry. Epub ahead of print May 17 2013 DOI 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12081125.
35. Leichsenring F, Salzer S, Jaeger U, Kächele H, Kreische R, Leweke F, Rüger U, Winkelbach C, Leibing E. 2009. Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in generalized anxiety disorder: a randomized, controlled trial. The American Journal of Psychiatry 166:875-881 DOI 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09030441.
36. Lilja JL, Frodi-Lundgren A, Hanse JJ, Josefsson T, Lundh L-G, Sköld C, Hansen E, Broberg AG. 2011. Five FacetsMindfulness Questionnaire - reliability and factor structure: a Swedish version. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 40:291-303 DOI 10.1080/16506073.2011.580367.
37. Malan D. 1995. Individual psychotherapy and the science of psychodynamics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
38. Mallinckrodt CH, ClarkWS, David SR. 2001. Accounting for dropout bias using mixed-effects models. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 11:9-21 DOI 10.1081/BIP-100104194.
39. McCullough L, Kuhn N, Andrews S, Kaplan A, Wolf J, Hurley CL. 2003. Treating affect phobia: a manual for short-term dynamic psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press.
40. McEvoy P, Nathan P. 2007. Effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy for diagnostically heterogeneous groups: a benchmarking study. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 75:344-350 DOI 10.1037/0022-006X.75.2.344.
41. McEvoy P, Nathan P, Norton P. 2009. Efficacy of transdiagnostic treatments: a review of published outcome studies and future research directions. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly 23:20-33 DOI 10.1891/0889-8391.23.1.20.
42. Milrod B, Leon AC, Busch F, Rudden M, Schwalberg M, Clarkin J, Aronson A, Singer M, Turchin W, Klass ET, Graf E, Teres JJ, Shear MK. 2007. A randomized controlled clinical trial of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for panic disorder. The American Journal of Psychiatry 164:265-272 DOI 10.1176/appi.ajp.164.2.265.
43. Osimo F, Stein MJ. 2012. Theory and practice of experiential dynamic psychotherapy. London: Karnac.
44. Paxling B, Lundgren S, Norman A, Almlöv J, Carlbring P, Cuijpers P, Andersson G. 2013. Therapist behaviours in internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy: analyses of e-mail correspondence in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 41:280-289 DOI 10.1017/S1352465812000240.
45. Röper G, Rachman S. 1976. Obsessional-compulsive checking: experimental replication and development. Behaviour Research and Therapy 14:25-32 DOI 10.1016/0005-7967(76)90041-3.
46. Salkovskis PM. 1985. Obsessional-compulsive problems: a cognitive-behavioural analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy 23:571-583 DOI 10.1016/0005-7967(85)90105-6.
47. Schulz KF, Altman DG, Moher D. 2010. CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. PLoS Medicine 7:e1000251 DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000251.
48. Shapiro S, Wilk M. 1965. An analysis of variance test for normality (complete samples). Biometrika 52:591-611 DOI 10.2307/2333709.
49. Sheehan DV, Lecrubier Y, Sheehan KH, Amorim P, Janavs J, Weiller E, Hergueta T, Baker R, Dunbar GC. 1998. The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I.): the development and validation of a structured diagnostic psychiatric interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 59(Suppl 2):22-33. Quiz 34-57.
50. Smit F, Cuijpers P, Oostenbrink J, Batelaan N, De Graaf R, Beekman A. 2006. Costs of nine common mental disorders: implications for curative and preventive psychiatry. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 9:193-200.
51. Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW, Löwe B. 2006. A brief measure for assessing generalized anxiety disorder: the GAD-7. Archives of Internal Medicine 166:1092-1097 DOI 10.1001/archinte.166.10.1092.
52. Svartberg M, Stiles TC, Seltzer MH. 2004. Randomized, controlled trial of the effectiveness of short-term dynamic psychotherapy and cognitive therapy for cluster C personality disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry 161:810-817 DOI 10.1176/appi.ajp.161.5.810.
53. Titov N, Dear BF, Schwencke G, Andrews G, Johnston L, Craske MG, McEvoy P. 2011. Transdiagnostic internet treatment for anxiety and depression: a randomised controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy 49:441-452 DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2011.03.007.
54. Town JM, Diener MJ, Abbass A, Leichsenring F, Driessen E, Rabung S. 2012. A meta-analysis of psychodynamic psychotherapy outcomes: evaluating the effects of research-specific procedures. Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) 49:276-290 DOI 10.1037/a0029564.
55. Verbeke G, Molenberghs G. 2000. Linear mixed models for longitudinal data. New York: Springer.
56. Winston A, Laikin M, Pollack J, Samstag LW, McCullough L, Muran JC. 1994. Short- term psychotherapy of personality disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry 151:190-194.