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| MARY BETH GIBBONSSummaryAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania Country: USA Publications
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Supportive-expressive dynamic psychotherapy in the community mental health system: a pilot effectiveness trial for the treatment of depressionMary Beth Connolly Gibbons
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Psychotherapy (Chic) 49:303-16. 2012..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...
Unique and common mechanisms of change across cognitive and dynamic psychotherapiesMary Beth Connolly Gibbons
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:801-13. 2009..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 empirical status of psychodynamic therapiesMary Beth Connolly Gibbons
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 4:93-108. 2008..Studies suggest that dynamic psychotherapy has great promise as a monotherapy for MDD and alcohol dependence and thus should be evaluated further...
Interpersonal accuracy of interventions and the outcome of cognitive and interpersonal therapies for depressionPaul Crits-Christoph
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 3309, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 78:420-8. 2010..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...
A pilot study of community-friendly manual-guided drug counselingPaul Crits-Christoph
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 37:8-16. 2009..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...
Dopamine transporter levels in cocaine dependent subjectsPaul Crits-Christoph
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 650, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 98:70-6. 2008..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...
Mediators of outcome of psychosocial treatments for cocaine dependencePaul Crits-Christoph
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:918-25. 2003..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...
Therapist interventions in the interpersonal and cognitive therapy sessions of the Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research ProgramMary Beth Connolly Gibbons
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Am J Psychother 56:3-26. 2002....
Additional treatment services in a cocaine treatment study: level of services obtained and impact on outcomeMatthew Worley
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Addict 17:209-17. 2008..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...
Cultural sensitivity and supportive expressive psychotherapy: an integrative approach to treatmentTracela M White
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Am J Psychother 60:299-316. 2006..Developing these strategies may serve to further assist therapists with the delivery of mental health services to ethnic minority clients...
Research Grants
- TRAINING IN SERVICES-INFORMED INTERVENTIONS RESEARCHMARY BETH GIBBONS; Fiscal Year: 2006..Finally, a small pilot intervention trial will be conducted integrating the results of the first two services-oriented investigations. ..
- A comparison of cognitive and dynamic therapy for MDD in community settingsMARY BETH GIBBONS; Fiscal Year: 2009..If psychodynamic therapy is not inferior to cognitive therapy, the cost of re-training psychotherapists in cognitive therapy may not be warranted. ..
- A comparison of cognitive and dynamic therapy for MDD in community settingsMARY BETH GIBBONS; Fiscal Year: 2010..If psychodynamic therapy is not inferior to cognitive therapy, the cost of re-training psychotherapists in cognitive therapy may not be warranted. ..
