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Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback
December 2024
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, 801 Washington Ave, 2nd Floor, Waco, TX, USA.
Hypnotherapy is increasingly recognized as an effective treatment option for a wide range of psychological conditions and the psychological elements of physiologic health concerns. Despite its growing use, the mechanisms underlying hypnotherapy's therapeutic benefits remain unknown. Heart rate variability (HRV), a non-invasive biomarker of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity and other processes relevant to the psychophysiological stress response, has been used to study the physiological effects of hypnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This article reviews the latest literature regarding chronic pain epidemiology and describes pain-specific psychological factors associated with the development and maintenance of chronic pain, mental health conditions that co-occur with chronic pain, and advances in the psychobehavioral treatment of chronic pain, including established treatments (ie, cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT], acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction) and emerging treatments (ie, pain reprocessing therapy).
Latest Developments: In addition to CBT and acceptance and commitment therapy for pain, numerous other psychological treatment modalities have been integrated into chronic pain management, including mindfulness-based stress reduction, mindfulness meditation, chronic pain self-management, relaxation response, pain neuroscience education, biofeedback, hypnosis, and, more recently, integrative psychological treatment for centralized pain. This article gives an overview of these methods and contextualizes their use within the standard psychological treatment of chronic pain.
Front Psychiatry
August 2024
Institute of General Practice and Interprofessional Care, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Background: Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that focuses on mental, behavioral and emotional well-being. Complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine has been an increasingly popular choice for patients with psychiatric disorders, therefore our study aimed to explore the perceptions of psychiatry researchers and clinicians on the use of CAIM.
Methods: We conducted an online, anonymous, cross-sectional survey for researchers and clinicians who have published their work in psychiatry medical journals that are indexed in MEDLINE.
Acta Paediatr
May 2024
Department of Women's and Children's Health, Pediatric Palliative Care, Pain Service, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Aim: Given the multifaceted nature of paediatric palliative care (PPC), integrative medicine and mind-body therapies, in particular, are increasingly used in this setting. However, to our knowledge, their use in PPC has never been specifically reviewed. Therefore, this work aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the application and possible beneficial effects of mind-body therapies in the PPC setting.
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