Just how good are different psychotherapies for common mental health problems?

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Lisa Lloyd and Milagros Pallavicini review a recent study on psychotherapies for 8 mental disorders, finding that while most outperform control treatments, response rates remain modest.

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Web-based guided self-help can prevent or delay major depression

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Ioana Cristea is impressed by a large German randomised controlled trial published yesterday in JAMA, which shows web-based guided self-help to be effective in preventing or delaying the onset of major depression.

This blog also features a podcast interview with the lead author of the research, Professor Pim Cuijpers.

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