Compare And Contrast Cbt And Pharmacotherapy

Many modern studies have compared the effectiveness of psychotherapy, specifically Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with clinical pharmacotherapy approaches. While these approaches both work well on their own, few studies examine the long-term effects of a combination of both CBT and pharmacotherapy. Information gathered from existing studies that explore the effectiveness of combination therapy have shown that CBT and pharmacotherapy together yield a stronger result in treating depression than when used alone. One meta-analysis which compared the individual results of CBT and pharmacotherapy between subjects with different types of anxiety disorders and subjects with depression demonstrated that depression showed similar response levels
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Similar to the meta-analysis performed by Cuijpers et al. al., the timespan of this study was also relatively short. Overall, this study found that medication worked well in conjunction with CBT in a circular way: the general sense of numbness from medication (the ‘drug loop’) often culminated in a crisis that brought patients to seek out CBT, and when practiced together, CBT helped lessen the numbness of the ‘drug loop’ and the medications helped facilitate CBT and make it more accessible for patients (Bayliss & Holttum). Current studies show how combination therapy is more effective than isolated therapies. Not only are the patients getting more support from their doctors, but CBT and medication work together to uplift each other with statistically significant positive outcomes (Bayliss & Holttum 2015). One common theme among each of these papers is that they each call for further research into the subject, addressing the need for more long-term