PRO*BPD: effectiveness of outpatient treatment programs for borderline personality disorder: a comparison of Schema therapy and dialectical behavior therapy: study protocol for a randomized trial.

Background: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness that is associated with low quality of life, low psychosocial functioning, and high societal costs. Treatments for BPD have improved in the last decades. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and Schema therapy (ST) have demonstrated efficacy in reducing BPD symptoms and costs.

[Chronic tinnitus: which kind of patients benefit from an outpatient psychotherapy?].

Background: Psychotherapy proved to be effective in the treatment of chronic tinnitus sufferers. We investigated, which patient and symptom characteristics predicted the treatment outcome.

Patients And Methods: 95 patients underwent a CBT based treatment including biofeedback elements.

Psychophysiological effects of biofeedback treatment in tinnitus sufferers.

Objectives: Psychophysiological factors in maintaining tinnitus-related distress have been emphasized in current tinnitus models. Hyperreactivity in the autonomous nervous system is supposed to hinder habituation processes and might contribute to maladjustment to tinnitus symptoms in the long run. Accordingly, biofeedback treatment targeting physiological activity ought to reduce tinnitus annoyance and facilitate habituation.

Biofeedback-based behavioral treatment for chronic tinnitus: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Many tinnitus sufferers believe that their tinnitus has an organic basis and thus seek medical rather than psychological treatments. Tinnitus has been found to be associated with negative appraisal, dysfunctional attention shift, and heightened psychophysiological arousal, so cognitive-behavioral interventions and biofeedback are commonly suggested as treatments. This study developed and investigated the efficacy of a biofeedback-based cognitive-behavioral treatment for tinnitus.

Stability of physiological variables in chronic tinnitus sufferers.

The etiological tinnitus models propose that suffering can be caused and aggravated by heightened physiological arousal. Therefore psychophysiological treatments are applied. Stability of the measured parameters is essential for the use of biofeedback as well as to permit the attribution of changes to the administered treatment.

Physiological and psychological stress reactivity in chronic tinnitus.

Several models of tinnitus maintenance emphasize the importance of cognitive, emotional and psychophysiological processes. These factors contribute to distress in patients with decompensated tinnitus symptoms. We investigated whether tinnitus patients show increased physiological levels of arousal, more intense stress reactivity patterns and exaggerated psychological strain compared to healthy controls.