A comparison of completion and recovery rates between first-line protocol-based cognitive behavioural therapy and non-manualized relational therapies within a UK psychological service.

This study compares completion and recovery rates between protocol-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), offered as a first-line therapy for common mental health problems as per national guidelines, and relational therapies (RTs), scarcely provided in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. This is a non-randomized, naturalistic study in a treatment-seeking community sample (n = 708). RTs consist of brief psychodynamic and relational integrative therapy.

[Comorbidity of substance use with mental disorders].

This contribution reviews the international literature about dual diagnosis, meaning patients who have simultaneously mental health problems and substance use disorders and discusses epidemiology, clinical characteristics, but primarily etiopathogenesis and different treatment models and interventions. The epidemiological data coming from large-scale studies in the general population in USA, Australia and UK demonstrate the close relationship between mental health problems and substance use disorders. Also, the results from Greek research projects support this close relationship, but their research designs have significant limitations.