A Comparison of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Pharmacotherapy vs. Pharmacotherapy Alone in Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

In the treatment of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) the importance of psychological interventions in combination with pharmacotherapy is widely accepted in contemporary clinical routine. The natural course of the disorder seems to justify additional psychological interventions because even in patients who are highly compliant to pharmacotherapy full remission is not always achieved. The aim of the present study was to analyze the contribution of psychotherapy to the treatment of adult ADHD patients.

Group treatment for depression in mothers of young children compared to standard individual therapy.

Background: Studies on specific psychotherapy for depressed mothers of small children are rare. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of a newly developed cognitive-behavioral group intervention for depressed mothers compared to standard individual therapy.

Sampling And Methods: In a naturalistic design, 31 mothers suffering from depressive disorders with children aged ≤4 years who had consecutively been admitted to our specialized clinic for mentally ill mothers were assigned to the group treatment, and the following 21 were admitted to the control group receiving standard individual therapy.

[Parenthood and parenting stress: psychometric testing of the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) in a German sample].

The Parenting Stress Index (PSI) consists of 120 items measuring the subjective burden--labelled as parenting stress--of adults in parenting children from the age of newborns up to 12 years. The PSI is a self report scale which was developed in the US in 1976. Since then the PSI has been widely used in family and parenting research and was validated in many different languages but not yet in German.