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Psychotherapy is Important for Depression Prevention

Peter Forster — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 23:34:45 +0000

Psychotherapies — particularly cognitive-behavioral approaches used as adjunctive treatments — can play a critical role in helping people with a history of depression avoid relapse. For many people, major depression is a chronic illness. Even when they are no longer depressed, people who have had several episodes of depression have to be concerned about a significant risk of a recurrence ...

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Psychotherapy for Bipolar

Peter Forster — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:27:17 +0000

People with bipolar disorder are much less likely to receive psychotherapy (26-50% of patients in one study got therapy) as opposed to psychiatric medications (46-90% were treated with medications) according to a study sponsored by the Depressive and Bipolar Support Association. This is not surprising since many mental health professionals were taught when we were in training that bipolar depression ...

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Impaired Decision Making in Depression – Treatment Implications

Peter Forster — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:22:50 +0000

Why do depressed people make choices that are unlikely to be rewarded. And why aren’t they willing to make choices that are likely to be rewarded. In fact, why are depressed people less likely than people who are not depressed to choose to take an antidepressant, or begin psychotherapy, or follow the advice of a therapist? A meta-analysis of many ...

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CBASP Advanced Training and Certification for Gateway Therapists – Update

Peter Forster — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 15:03:37 +0000

Gateway Psychiatric was established with the belief that in order to give our patients the best care possible, it is necessary to invest heavily in training for the clinical staff. We particularly focus on evidence based practices that have been shown to address significant problems facing our patients. Since chronic depression is one of the most common problems seen in ...

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“Are You Living a Life You Value?”

Peter Forster — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:05:12 +0000

Sometimes our lives can become so full of the myriad items to manage and tend to that we lose track of what is most meaningful. Rarely do we afford ourselves the time to stop and ask, “How do I really want to be spending my time? What is it that I value?” The end-result of this way of functioning tends ...

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Integrated Care

Peter Forster — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:26:13 +0000

We have a passion for providing the most effective treatment at Gateway and that passion is illustrated by the efforts that we make to ensure that we deliver integrated care. Integrated care is a very simple idea. In fact it is probably something that you expect your treatment providers are already delivering. It means that the different providers who are ...

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Long Term Depression Psychotherapy

Peter Forster — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 02:15:19 +0000

Effective psychotherapy for depression that has lasted for years is needed because chronic depression (lasting two years or longer) develops in up to a third of people with an episode of major depression. Chronic depression is associated with more suicidality, more impairment in functioning, and more hospitalizations. Chronic depression psychotherapy is often less effective than therapy for other forms of depression. ...

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Psychotherapy for Depression – New Data

Peter Forster — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:55:11 +0000

Many reviews have pointed out that there is a significant “publication bias” that affects studies of antidepressants: because studies that don’t find an effect tend not to be published a review of the published literature would suggest that these medications are more effective than they really are. Indeed this is been the basis of a great debate in the popular and ...

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Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy

Peter Forster — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:59:15 +0000

I have just posted another page on the site devoted to orienting patients to types of psychotherapy that we may recommend for them. This most recent page talks about Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy, an approach to the treatment of patients with chronic depression that many people have benefitted from during the course of their treatment at Gateway Psychiatric. ...

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Therapy or Medication for Depression?

Peter Forster — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:29:11 +0000

Therapy or medication for depression? Which is more effective? When might you want to consider both treatments? These are among the most frequent questions that we are asked. A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry provides the best information available about how to make this decision. The study involved 452 patients who received antidepressant medication treatment for depression with or ...

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