Executive summary “Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive
in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to …

Mental health concerns are common, and various evidence-based interventions for mental
health conditions have been developed. However, many people have difficulty accessing …

This chapter sets out the current status of the evidence-base for the efficacy and
effectiveness of psychological therapies. First, methods for eliciting and synthesizing …

Background Psychological treatments occupy an important place in evidence-based mental
health treatments. Now is an exciting time to fuel treatment research: a pressing demand for …

It has been claimed that working memory training programs produce diverse beneficial
effects. This article presents a meta-analysis of working memory training studies (with a …

Objective: In the past decades, many different types of psychotherapy for adult depression
have been developed. Method: In this meta-analysis we examined the effects of 15 different …

We report the current best estimate of the effects of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) in the
treatment of major depression (MDD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder …

Common mental health problems (CMHPs), such as depression, anxiety disorder, obsessive-
compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are internalizing …

Objectives National guidelines for the management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
recommend that psychological therapies should be considered, but their relative efficacy is …

Recent years have seen a near-doubling of the number of studies examining the effects of
psychotherapies for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in adults. The present article …