Process-based therapy vs. routine-CBT for difficult-to-treat mood and anxiety disorders: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Process-based therapy (PBT) is a new framework to intervention planning, based on the use of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data and dynamic and idiographic network analyses. Support for its applicability has been reported from a single-case studies. Here, we examine the feasibility and effectiveness of PBT in a larger clinical sample.

I simply have more of a role as a human being: Psychotherapists' Experience Delivering Psychotherapy to Nursing Home Residents With Depression.

Background And Objectives: The lack of psychotherapy in nursing homes can be explained by organizational obstacles but also by practitioners' reservations about this patient group and setting. This study aimed to inform practice by qualitatively exploring the experiences of psychotherapists delivering cognitive behavioral therapy to residents of nursing homes diagnosed with depression.

Research Design And Methods: Semistructured interviews with 6 psychotherapists, who had delivered treatment within the DAVOS project (Depression in the nursing home: a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge collaborative case management approach to improve treatment) were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using a deductive-inductive content analysis.

Risk and protective factors for the severity of long COVID - A network analytic perspective.

Background And Objectives: In light of the late stage of COVID-19 pandemic, the occurrence of persistent symptoms after COVID-19 infection has become more frequent. To date, there are no standardized treatments. Underlying mechanisms, risk and protective factors for severe persisting symptoms should be investigated to develop effective interventions.

Emotion regulation in older nursing home residents with and without depression and younger comparison samples.

Objectives: We aimed to increase the understanding of emotion regulation (ER) and depression in older residents.

Methods: A sample of depressed and non-depressed nursing home residents (N = 164, M = 82.63) were compared to younger patients with depression (N = 163, M = 37.

[Video-Based Online Metta-Meditation Therapy for Depression: A Pilot Trial Evaluating the Acceptability and Feasibility].

Background: In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become clear what relevance non-contact psychotherapeutic online interventions in mental health care could possibly have in the future. The present pilot study aims to test whether a Metta-based group program is also an acceptable and feasible treatment when conducted as video-based intervention. Metta meditations aim at showing unconditional benevolence and kindness to oneself and to other people.