Use of a Telerehabilitation Platform in a Stroke Continuum: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Therapist Acceptability.

The purpose of this study was to describe the acceptability of a stroke telerehabilitation platform from the perspective of both patients and therapists. Two public rehabilitation centers participated in a pilot telerehabilitation trial. A theoretical framework was used to conceptualize acceptability.

Do older adults respond to cognitive behavioral therapy as well as younger adults? An analysis of a large, multi-diagnostic, real-world sample.

Objectives: Older adults (OA; ≥55 years of age) are underrepresented in patients receiving cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This study evaluates mental health outcomes for OA compared to younger adults (YA; <55 years of age) receiving CBT.

Design: This is a pre-post study comparing the effectiveness of CBT for OA (n = 99) and YA (n = 601) in a CBT service located in a university-affiliated tertiary care hospital in Canada.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Intensive Case Management: A Multimethod Quantitative-Qualitative Study.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in schizophrenia and severe and persistent mental illness, but access to it remains limited. One potential way to improve access to CBT is to provide it through intensive case management (ICM) teams. A 90-week quality improvement study was designed to assess if CBT could be implemented in ICM teams.

Why We Still Use "Organic Causes": Results From a Survey of Psychiatrists and Residents.

The diagnostic category of "organic disorders" was officially removed from the psychiatric nosology in DSM-IV, published in 1994. Despite this change, physicians continue to use the term "organic causes" to refer to medical and neurological causes of psychiatric symptoms, and it remains part of the ICD-10 classification. In the context of increasing integration of psychiatric disorders within a medical and neuroscientific framework, the reasons behind the ongoing use of this term (reminiscent of mind-body dualism) have to be clarified.