Paul Crits-Christoph

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..These results suggest that a feedback system adapted to the treatment of substance use problems is a promising approach that should be tested in a larger randomized trial...

..The goal of the current study was to use a relatively inexpensive methodology to examine the prevalence and demographic correlates of nonmedical methamphetamine use in the United States...

..In addition, a measure of beliefs about addiction developed to test mediation of outcome of cognitive therapy was found to correlate moderately with drug use outcomes in both cognitive therapy and individual drug counseling...

..DAT levels were unrelated to craving, severity of cocaine use, or duration of cocaine use, but DAT levels in the caudate and anterior putamen were significantly (p<0.05) negatively correlated with days since last use of cocaine...

..Counselors implemented the new treatment manuals with acceptable levels of adherence and competence. Outcome results indicated that substantial change in drug use was evident, but the amount of abstinence obtained was limited...

..Implications of the findings for conceptualization of the alliance and for training of therapists are discussed...

..Possible insights from these findings and alternative methods of utilizing feedback reports to enhance clinical outcomes are proposed...

..The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the interpersonal accuracy of interventions in cognitive therapy and interpersonal therapy as a predictor of the outcome of treatment for patients with major depressive disorder...

..Simulation studies conducted by Siemer and Joormann confounded bias due to small sample size and inconsistent estimates...

..The implications of the findings for the design of process-outcome studies are discussed...

..Program variability in the alliance is important to the alliance-outcome relationship in the treatment of substance abuse. Better outcomes can be achieved by improving both organizational functioning and the patient-counselor alliance...

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..Of those that receive CBT, there appears to be no additional benefit of combined treatment compared to venlafaxine XR alone...

..Randomized controlled trials remain the most powerful way to test notions of causal agency...

..Changes in self-understanding and compensatory skills across treatment were predictive of follow-up symptom course. Changes in self-understanding demonstrated specificity of change to dynamic psychotherapy...

..The results suggest that during uncontrolled follow-up phases, additional non-protocol services may potentially confound the interpretation of treatment group comparisons in drug use outcomes...

..The Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale-24 showed that 50% of patients treated with dynamic therapy moved into a normative range compared with only 29% of patients treated with TAU...

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..The implications of these findings for future research and clinical practice are discussed...

..Ratings of helpfulness were significantly related to retention and alliance but were largely unrelated to changes in drug use or psychiatric outcomes...

..Issues requiring attention included the diversity in treatments offered across sites, heterogeneity in the study sample, and training of clinicians drawn from the staff of community programs to deliver the study treatments...

..Thus, treatments were easily discriminable by the independent judges...

..African American consumers were more likely to receive psychotherapy alone than combined treatment and attended significantly fewer psychotherapy sessions...

..Studies suggest that dynamic psychotherapy has great promise as a monotherapy for MDD and alcohol dependence and thus should be evaluated further...

..When defined in a parallel fashion, rates of sudden gains in GAD are similar to those found in MDD, although anxiety symptoms are highly variable...

..The combination of IDC and GDC was associated with an equal or even greater reduction in HIV risk than the other treatment conditions and thus shows promise as an effective HIV prevention strategy, at least for some patients...

..The most common reasons that patients in their sample did not match with published RCTs for psychotherapy are listed, and the implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed...

..An independent evaluation of session audiotapes indicated that MET and CAU were highly and comparably discriminable across sites...

..However, substantial heterogeneity of patient outcomes was evident. Longitudinal data analysis techniques can be helpful in examining differential effects of psychosocial interventions on specific subpopulations of patients...

..Furthermore, change in ASQ correlated with change in depression. There was some evidence suggesting that ASQ at termination predicted level of depression at follow-up...

..CONCLUSIONS: The CT group was resistant to the effects of tryptophan depletion, but the SSRI group was not...

..Moreover, the distinction between attending meetings and actively participating in 12-step activities has not typically been examined...

..Among patients with a concurrent anxiety disorder, nefazodone. either alone or in combination with CBASP, improves anxiety symptoms faster than CBASP alone, independent of depressive symptom reduction...

..Changes across treatment indicated that the WHI Total and Performance scores increased significantly across psychotherapy. The WHI seems to be a reliable and valid instrument for measuring treatment related changes in work functioning...

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..Administration of the BASIS-24 via handheld computer may allow for efficient and sustainable outcomes assessment, adaptable research infrastructure, and maximization of clinical impact in community mental health agencies...

..This study examined possible interrelations between drug use and depression severity among cocaine-dependent patients in psychosocial treatments for cocaine dependence...

..Implications for further research with this difficult-to-treat patient population are discussed...

..Nevertheless, purified BAI and BDI-II scales might be useful for separating the effects of interventions on anxiety and depressive symptoms...

..To determine the incidence of depression, anxiety, and suicidality in patients with psoriasis compared with the general population...

..Because drug-involved women are among the fastest growing groups with AIDS, sexual risk reduction intervention for them is a public health imperative...

..In all acute and long-term trials, duloxetine was well-tolerated. This body of research suggests that duloxetine should be one of the options considered as a first-line treatment for GAD...

..The data gathered from this treatment development project will inform the design of a subsequent larger study. ..

..Statistical solutions for addressing such "rolling" groups have yet to be developed. Our second aim is to develop a new statistical approach to the analysis of data from "rolling" groups. ..

..A collaborating clinical trial application for this test of PF is being submitted by John Rotrosen, M.D., from New York University, School of Medicine. ..

..created will work synergistically with existing programs at Penn that focuses on psychotherapy research (Center for the Study of Psychotherapy) and mental health services research (Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research) ..

..Data analysis will focus on differential rate of change (mixed model analyses) for the two groups. If promising results are obtained for combined treatment, a larger more definitive trial will be planned. ..