hed in a 1978 article Depression: Must Pharmacotherapy Fail for Cognitive Therapy to Succeed? published in Cognitive Therapy and Research. The above two interventions empower clients to cope with psychosocial stresses by educating them regarding their disease, its treatment and by teaching them skills that help them monitor the severity of their symptoms, belief systems and attitudes. When successful, they help clients transform their lives.How this chapter makes a unique contribution was by providing different interventions for the mania and depression phases of the illnesses. It also provided interventions for the manic phase of this disease, however it was not a Cognitive Behavioral approach – but the fact it was offered made it unique.Compare/contrast This article cited the research results for CBT in the article above it. In the preface of this practice guideline, it stated that some of the authors involved in publishing this book may also be involved in research. This statement can make the reader question if there was a possibility that some of the authors who wrote the articles may have had a conscience or unconscious motivation to publish results. This article compares with the two articles above it in that they agree that if therapists employ CBT methods they will receive successful results with their clients. This article contrast with the last three articles, in which the article below request that more researchers be conducted on the interventions therapists employ to see if they really work.Update on mood disorders (part 2). (1995, January). Harvard Mental Health Letter, 11 (7), 1-4.Key points of this article is that it discussed the full range of standard treatment for mood disorders; psychopharmacology, psychosocial stressors to psychotherapies. The most important factor that was discussed was that drugs and ECT are not enough for most patients with mood disorder. It explained that psychotherapy is usually...
