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| Simone KoolSummaryAffiliation: Mentrum Mental Health Organization Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy versus Short Psychodynamic Supportive Psychotherapy in the outpatient treatment of depression: a randomized controlled trialEllen Driessen
Depression Research Group, JellinekMentrum Mental Health Care, Overschiestraat 65, 1062 XD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Psychiatry 7:58. 2007..This article outlines the study protocol. The results of the study, which is being currently carried out, will be presented as soon as they are available...
Changes in personality pathology after pharmacotherapy and combined therapy for depressed patientsSimone Kool
Mentrum Mental Health Organization Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Pers Disord 17:60-72. 2003..Patients with cluster B pathology changed the least. Depressed patients with comorbid personality pathology appear to benefit most from a combination of pharmacotherapy and a form of short, psychodynamic, supportive psychotherapy...- Efficacy of combined therapy and pharmacotherapy for depressed patients with or without personality disordersSimone Kool
Mentrum Mental Health Organization, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Harv Rev Psychiatry 11:133-41. 2003.... - Efficacy of pharmacotherapy in depressed patients with and without personality disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysisSimone Kool
Mentrum Mental Health Organization, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 88:269-78. 2005..Recently, there has been a shift towards a less negative opinion. Still, the evidence in the literature remains inconclusive. This may be explained by methodological differences between published studies... - [Treatment of depressive disorder and comorbid personality pathology: combined therapy versus pharmacotherapy]S Kool
Mentrum GGZ Amsterdam, Polikliniek West, Frederik Hendrikstraat, Amsterdam
Tijdschr Psychiatr 49:361-72. 2007..There is no equivocal treatment method of choice in literature, and opinions differ as to whether personality pathology has an adverse influence on the efficacy of the treatment for depression... 
Patient preference compared with random allocation in short-term psychodynamic supportive psychotherapy with indicated addition of pharmacotherapy for depressionHenricus L Van
Mentrum Depression Research Group, Mentrum Mental Health Care, Mentrum Mental Health Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychother Res 19:205-12. 2009..It might be warranted to continue an initially ineffective psychotherapy for depression, because a considerable number of patients do have a pattern of delayed response...- Short psychodynamic supportive psychotherapy, antidepressants, and their combination in the treatment of major depression: a mega-analysis based on three randomized clinical trialsSaskia de Maat
Depression Research Group of the Mentrum Institute for Mental Health, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Depress Anxiety 25:565-74. 2008..Combined therapy and SPSP also seem equally efficacious, except that patients think that the first is better in symptom reduction... - Managing the patient with co-morbid depression and an anxiety disorderRobert A Schoevers
JellinekMentrum Mental Health Care Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsDepartment of Psychiatry, Medical Center, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drugs 68:1621-34. 2008..The results should be interpreted with caution because the number of studies on this issue was relatively small, with considerable clinical and methodological heterogeneity... - Does early response predict outcome in psychotherapy and combined therapy for major depression?Henricus L Van
Depression Research Group of Mentrum Health Care Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 105:261-5. 2008..To examine the predictive value of early response for final outcome of psychotherapy and combined therapy in major depression... - Dose-effect relations in time-limited combined psycho-pharmacological treatment for depressionJ Dekker
Depression Research Group of the Mentrum Institute for Mental Health, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychol Med 35:47-58. 2005..Whether there is a relation between the number of sessions and the efficacy of the treatment is uncertain... - Speed of action: the relative efficacy of short psychodynamic supportive psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy in the first 8 weeks of a treatment algorithm for depressionJ J M Dekker
Clinical Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 109:183-8. 2008..To examine the efficacy and speed of action of short-term psychodynamic supportive psychotherapy (SPSP) in comparison to pharmacotherapy (PhT) in the acute treatment of depression... - Combining psychotherapy and antidepressants in the treatment of depressionF de Jonghe
Mentrum Mental Health Amsterdam, Department SPDC, Tweede Constantijn Huygenstraat 37, 1054 AG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Affect Disord 64:217-29. 2001..To compare the efficacy of antidepressants with that of antidepressants plus psychotherapy ("combined therapy") in the treatment of depression... - Psychotherapy alone and combined with pharmacotherapy in the treatment of depressionFrans de Jonghe
Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, and Depression Research Group, Mentrum Institute for Mental Health, The Netherlands
Br J Psychiatry 185:37-45. 2004..Neither the treating clinicians nor the independent observers were able to ascertain them, but the patients experienced them clearly. CONCLUSIONS: The advantages of combining antidepressants with psychotherapy are equivocal...