The pairwise approximate spatiotemporal symmetry algorithm: A method for segmenting time series pairs.

Methods that measure the association between two intensively measured time series are of interest to researchers studying the symmetry of behaviors during social interaction. Such methods have historically focused on aggregating the amount of symmetry across all measurement occasions. However, it is rarely expected that symmetry is present at all measurement occasions.

Language and Movement Synchronization in Dyadic Psychotherapeutic Interaction - A Qualitative Review and a Proposal for a Classification.

In individual psychotherapy verbal communication and movement synchronization are closely interrelated. The microanalysis of timing, rhythm and gestalt of movement has established dynamic movement coordination as a systemic property of the dyadic interaction. Movement synchronization supports and enhances the unfolding of linguistic meaning.

Positioning Shifts From Told Self to Performative Self in Psychotherapy.

According to Positioning Theory, participants in narrative interaction can position themselves on a representational level concerning the autobiographical, told self, and a performative level concerning the interactive and emotional self of the tellers. The performative self is usually much harder to pin down, because it is a non-propositional, enacted self. In contrast to everyday interaction, psychotherapists regularly topicalize the performative self explicitly.

[Therapeutic Effort in Inpatient or Day Patient Treatments and Therapy Success in Patients with Depressive Disorders].

Several therapeutic treatments like individual psychotherapy, group therapy, creative therapies and talks with the nursing staff are components in an inpatient psychosomatic (psychotherapeutic) treatment or a psychosomatic day hospital treatment. In Germany, these therapies have to be documented by the administration with so called OPS-Codes. These codes are reported to the Institute for Reimbursement in Hospitals (InEK).

Effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on body image flexibility and body awareness in patients with psychosomatic disorders: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: The aim of this research was to examine the effectiveness of the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for body image flexibility and body awareness in these patients.

Methods: A randomized clinical trial was conducted at Kashan University of Medical Sciences clinics in Kashan, Iran, from December 1, 2017 to March 30, 2018. A sample of 75 patients with psychosomatic disorders was selected by convenience sampling.

Prognostic and prescriptive predictors of improvement in a naturalistic study on inpatient and day hospital treatment of depression.

Background: The study aimed to identify prognostic (associated with general outcome) and prescriptive (associated with differential outcome in two different settings) predictors of improvement in a naturalistic multi-center study on inpatient and day hospital treatment in major depressive disorder (MDD).

Methods: 250 inpatients and 250 day hospital patients of eight psychosomatic hospitals were assessed at admission, discharge and a 3-months follow-up. Primary outcome was defined as a reduction of depressive symptomatology from admission to discharge and from discharge to follow-up (QIDS-C, total score).

Development and validation of cardiac patient competence questionnaire, Iranian version.

Background: The aim was to translate and develop a patient competence (PC) questionnaire in the context of cardiology and test its validity and reliability.

Methods: In total, 148 cardiac patients who have inclusion criteria of the study were completed cardiac PC (CPC) questionnaire. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and self-administered instrument European quality of life 5-dimensions were used to further validate the CPC questionnaire.

Pretreatment and process predictors of nonresponse at different stages of inpatient psychotherapy.

Objective: Up to 50% of psychotherapeutic treatments end without significant improvements. While there is first evidence about predictors of nonresponse in outpatient psychotherapy, there are currently no studies investigating predictors of nonresponse in inpatient settings. Based upon a previous systematic literature review, we analyzed the predictive value of initial patient characteristics on nonresponse in symptom distress.

Unresolved trauma in fibromyalgia: A cross-sectional study.

This study examined the prevalence of unresolved attachment-related trauma and its association with physical and psychological health status in 34 patients with fibromyalgia. Unresolved trauma was assessed with the Adult Attachment Interview. In addition, participants completed self-report measures of childhood trauma, fibromyalgia-related health status and depression.

Differentiating cerebral ischemia from functional neurological symptom disorder: a psychosomatic perspective.

Background: The differential diagnosis of pseudo-neurological symptoms often represents a clinical challenge. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-5, made an attempt to improve diagnostic criteria of conversion disorder (functional neurological symptom disorder). Incongruences of the neurological examination, i.

[Non-response to therapy in acute and rehabilitative psychosomatic inpatient care - a systematic review].

Objectives: The study reviews the state-of-the art on failure research in acute and rehabilitative psychosomatic inpatient care. The main focus of interest lies in describing the frequency and possible predictors of unsuccessful therapeutic treatments.

Methods: We systematically searched the databases MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO und PSYNDEX and selected studies from the past 20 years focusing on treatment failure in the inpatient psychosomatic treatment of adult patients.

[Premature termination of inpatient psychotherapy].

This systematic review examines the frequency and possible causes of premature termination of psychotherapeutic treatments. The literature search focused on adult patients who drop-out of acute and rehabilitative inpatient psychosomatic care in Germany. The weighted average drop-out-rate of the 15 included studies was 12.

Benefits and challenges in practice-oriented psychotherapy research in Germany: the TK and the QS-PSY-BAY projects of quality assurance in outpatient psychotherapy.

Objective: Two patient-focused long-term research projects performed in the German outpatient psychotherapy system are focused on in this article. The TK (Techniker Krankenkasse) project is the first study to evaluate a quality assurance and feedback system with regard to its practical feasibility in German routine care. The other study ("Quality Assurance in Outpatient Psychotherapy in Bavaria"; QS-PSY-BAY) was designed to test a new approach for quality assurance in outpatient psychotherapy using electronic documentation of patient characteristics and outcome parameters.

A comparison of schemas, schema modes and childhood traumas in obsessive-compulsive disorder, chronic pain disorder and eating disorders.

Background: In this study, we investigated early maladaptive schemas (EMS), schema modes and childhood traumas in patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in contrast to patients with other Axis I disorders. Based on cognitive theories on OCD, our main research question was whether schemas belonging to the domain of 'impaired autonomy and performance' are more prevalent in OCD than in both eating disorders (ED) and chronic pain disorder (CPD).

Sampling And Methods: EMS, schema modes and traumatic childhood experiences were measured in 60 patients with OCD, 41 with ED, 40 with CPD and 142 healthy controls.

Self-reported symptoms of pain and depression in primary fibromyalgia syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis.

Background: Primary fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is associated with substantial psychiatric comorbidity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the interrelationship between self-reported symptoms of depression and pain in FMS compared with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 100 patients with FMS and 50 patients with RA were compared with regard to depression and psychopathology using the Symptom Check List (SCL-27).

Is brief psychodynamic psychotherapy in primary fibromyalgia syndrome with concurrent depression an effective treatment? A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: There are no studies investigating the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy in primary fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). We conducted a randomized controlled trial evaluating an adapted form of individual short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (ASTPP) versus primary care management (TAU). The study focused on FMS patients with psychiatric comorbidity.

[The project of the Techniker-Krankenkasse: some comments on the results by the project's scientific advisory board].

The Project of the Techniker Krankenkasse compared 2 systems of quality assurance in outpatient psychotherapy, the established peer review system based on qualitative individual case reports and a new model based on psychometric assessment and feed-back systems. In this publication the members of the project advisory board comment on the results and limitations of the study. 400 psychotherapists in private practice participated in a cluster-randomized comparison study, 200 were allocated to the intervention group, and 200 to the control group.

[Narration as a means of restoring self-coherency: Thoughts on processing traumatic experiences].

Objective: Traumatic memories are characterized by not being accessible to intentional recall nor being integrated into the matrix of autobiographical memory. Based on this description, the authors discuss the process of narration as a central means of regaining a sense of self-coherence after traumatic experiences. Formally correct narratives are characterized by three functions: orientation, reference and evaluation.

[Psychological consequences of perinatal loss in subsequent pregnancies--a comparative study].

Purpose: Pregnancies after perinatal loss occur often. However, little is known about the need of secondary psychological prevention in these instances. Therefore we investigated psychological disorder and distress during the subsequent pregnancy after perinatal loss.

The relationship between alexithymia and salivary cortisol levels in somatoform disorders.

The purpose of this study was to investigate cortisol levels as a function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) in relation to alexithymia in patients with somatoform disorders (SFD). Diurnal salivary cortisol was sampled in 32 patients with SFD who also underwent a psychiatric examination and filled in questionnaires (Toronto Alexithymia Scale, TAS scale; Screening for Somatoform Symptoms, SOMS scale; Hamilton Depression Scale, HAMD). The mean TAS total score in the sample was 55.

Relationship between attachment style, parental bonding and alexithymia in adults with somatoform disorders.

Background: This study examines the relationship between parental bonding, adult attachment, and alexithymia in patients with Somatoform Disorders (SFD). There are few empirical studies to support the clinical hypothesis that alexithymia may be due to disturbances in the early parent-child relationship.

Sampling And Methods: In a cross-sectional study, data from 76 patients with SFD were obtained, consisting of questionnaire measures of alexithymia (TAS scale), attachment style (BFKE), and also the German version of the MOPS (Measure of Parental Style), the FDEB scale for measuring perceived parental attitude.