Spotlight: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Sustain the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial (Wilkinson, et al, 2021)
"This proof-of-concept study provides preliminary data indicating that CBT may sustain the antidepressant effects of ketamine in TRD."
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Sustain the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial - PubMed
This proof-of-concept study provides preliminary data indicating that CBT may sustain the antidepressant effects of ketamine in TRD. Further study and optimization of this treatment approach in well-powered clinical trials is recommended.
Samuel T Wilkinson
One of the over 55,000 articles on PubMed which include cognitive behavioral therapy, this one, a proof of concept-study to begin to set a model for further research studies into ketamine and cognitive behavioral therapy.
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Psychedelic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Preliminary Lit Review)
An evolving overview of cognitive behavioral therapy in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and ketamine psychedelic therapy.
Michael DeMarco, PhD
Psychedelic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: On Ketamine, Context and Competencies in “Assisted-Psychotherapy”
There are many tools to help a psychotherapist help clients learn to speak the language of cognitive behavioral therapy, especially tools which may help facilitate therapeutic alliance, including, but not limited to telehealth.
Michael DeMarco, PhD