Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapy in Female Adolescents With Bulimia Nervosa: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: The authors compared cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic therapy (PDT) for the treatment of bulimia nervosa (BN) in female adolescents.

Method: In this randomized controlled trial, 81 female adolescents with BN or partial BN according to the DSM-IV received a mean of 36.6 sessions of manualized disorder-oriented PDT or CBT.

[Psychodynamik focal therapy of bulimia nervosa for female adolescents and young adults].

A manual for a disorder oriented psychodynamic treatment of bulimia nevosa and atypical bulimia nervosa of female adolescents and young adults is presented. This manual is applied in a therapy project, which started in 2007. The work on conflicts and structural dysfunctions is meant to lead to the removal or alleviation of the symptoms and an improvement of eating behavior and body image.

[Interrater-reliability of the OPD-CA, the axes conflict and structure].

The reliability of the meanwhile widely used Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnostics in childhood and adolescence (OPD-CA) is only rarely examined. By means of audiovisual recordings of OPD-CA-interviews with 39 adolescents in the context of a randomized-controlled psychotherapy study for the treatment female adolescents with bulimia nervosa and atypical bulimia nervosa the reliability of the axis conflict and the axis structure were examined. This was carried out by the calculation of Intraklassen-correlations of three raters.

Attachment styles and outcome of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children and adolescents.

Background: Until now few studies have proven that an attachment style can be changed in the course of psychotherapy and that the attachment style has an impact on the therapy outcome. In particular, there is a lack of studies about these relationships in long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents.

Sampling And Methods: Seventy-one children with mental disorders receiving long-term outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy were assessed 4 times using the Heidelberg Attachment Style Rating for Children and Adolescents.

[Attachment style and outcome in short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents].

In several studies, the association between attachment style and psychotherapy outcome has been shown for adults. The aim of the present study was to examine the association between attachment style and outcome of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents. 71 children and adolescents with a mental disorder receiving out-patient short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy were studied.

[Efficacy of psychodynamic short-term psychotherapy for children and adolescents with depression].

Depression is highly prevalent in children and adolescents. Psychodynamic therapies are only insufficiently evaluated in this field although many children and adolescents suffering from depression are treated using this approach. Therefore, the aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy of psychodynamic short-term psychotherapy (PSTP) for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents.

[Efficacy of psychodynamic short-term psychotherapy for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders].

Anxiety disorders can be regarded as one of the most prevalent disorders in children and adolescents. Although psychodynamic psychotherapies are frequently carried out in this field, the evaluation of its efficacy for anxiety disorders is still deficient. Therefore the aim of the study was to evaluate psychodynamic short-term psychotherapy (PSTP) comprising 25 therapy sessions for children and adolescents with anxiety disorders.