cbt

So there's some news from Belgium. The government has extended its ME/CFS-convention until 2020. In parliament our Minister of Health said the assessment report of GET/CBT rehabilitation has shown to be highly successful. Patients however were not allowed to see the report... The new...

Here's a weird one: A 4-day mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural intervention program for CFS/ME. An open study, with one-year follow-up. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00720/abstract These people seem to be implying that four days of CBT will fix your "CFS/ME"...

Free full text: http://iacfsme.org/PDFS/Reporting-of-Harms-Associated-with-GET-and-CBT-in.aspx

yet another psychotherapy: "A large proportion of the identified studies treated patients suffering from anxiety and depression (see Table 1). There were eight trials on depressive disorders. Of these, seven were on major depressive disorder, whereas one study also included a small proportion...

Another 'who said' post! I've got Vink's paper (2016). Even the PACE authors themselves say there was no difference between groups in lost employment, before or after the trial, and yet CBT and GET were more expensive anyway, and that may be enough. In general benefits is a terrible, terrible...

A blog about personal experience of PACE recommended 'treatments' published earlier this year. https://mookpixie-chronicills.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-pace-trial-complaint.html

Thursday, April 25th, 2019 18:00 - 18:45 Childhood maltreatment and treatment resistance in adult psychiatric disorders Carmine Pariante (King's College London, United Kingdom) Saturday, April 27th, 2019 9:00 - 9:45 CBT-resistance Trudie Chalder (King's College London, United Kingdom)...

Cognitive behaviour therapy for distress in people with inflammatory bowel disease: A benchmarking study First published: 11 September 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2326 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cpp.2326 so it was tried before and it made no difference, but the...

Seems like MS still has friends in the UK at Oxford University: An ode to Michael's tremendous work (wondering who wrote this, I nearly choked while reading...): And the best (this was suposedly revised in 2018!): Direct...

@Cheshire first posted about this here, but I thought it was important enough to warrant its own thread. https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/pace-trial-and-behavioural-treatments-for-me/

Would someone who's on twitter please make this dutch journalist aware of... - the S4ME PACE briefing paper: https://www.s4me.info/threads/science-for-me-pace-briefing-document.3140/#post-55894 - Graham's video...

http://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrjcp/11/2/127

Moderator note: This post and several subsequent posts have been moved from this thread. Posts requesting the move have been deleted. CPD Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 21 August @ 09:00 - 16:30 The University of Bolton now offers a variety of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events in...

Probably a minority interest. I think the biggest concern with CBT for ME/CFS is the graded activity component. However, potentially other aspects may cause problems. Adverse effects from nonpharmacological therapies have not been studied as closely as adverse effects from pharmacological...

Open access at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2055102918792648

Perhaps there is something interesting or more likely annoying (!) in this. Free full text: https://bjgp.org/content/early/2018/07/30/bjgp18X698321 Research Patients’ perspectives on GP interactions after cognitive behavioural therapy for refractory IBS: a qualitative study in UK primary and...

Anyone From Around the World Can Submit EVIDENCE OF HARM Caused by CBT/GET to Scottish Parliament

Keith Laws, professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University of Hertfordshire in The Conversation: Why CBT should stop being offered to people with schizophrenia Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, has in the past decade become a standard tool for helping people with schizophrenia deal...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/cognitivebehavioural-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-neither-efficacious-nor-safe/C8B85E1E18395A44E4535281167FD413