needed and one of the most important tasks for research is a better understanding of its uses. It further stated that it is difficult “to identify specific techniques that are consistently superior (p. 2).” An analysis of the evidence of the efficacy of CBT: The efficacy of CBT with mood disorders was cited in the National Institute of Mental Health’s (NIMH) study of psychotherapy. The NIMH studied patients with major depression and randomly assigned them to four different treatments (antidepressants, placebo pill, interpersonal therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. It found that cognitive therapy alone or in combination with an antidepressant may be more effective than drugs alone over periods of a year or two. It also found that patients who respond best to cognitive therapy are less inclined to excessive guilt and pessimism. How this article makes a unique contribution: The article openly acknowledges and appears to challenge authorities and other professional in the mental health field to provide more research to understand what interventions really help people with mood disorders to get well. Contrast/compare This article compares somewhat with the first three articles in that it agrees with the efficacy of CBT. However, it differs with them in that it calls upon research authorities to provide more research to understand how their psychotherapeutic interventions really work. It compares with the articles above it and below it by challenging authority figures involved in research to provide satisfactory data that truly prove their intervention lead to successful outcomes for bipolar patients. Enright, S. J. (1997). Cognitive behavior therapy – clinical applications. British Medical Journal, 314, 1811-1817.Key points: This article did an extensive review of CBT based on a literature research of all papers, books and chapters relating to it. After a careful review, the article concluded that...
