Psychological Treatment of Mental Illness

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Evaluation Research on Psychotherapy in the Federal Republic of Germany

   • D. von Zerssen, H.-J. Möller, U. Baumann

   Pages 1-19

3. Overall Review of Research Strategies in Psychological Treatments in the French-Speaking Literature

   • E. A. Sand, C. De Jonghe

   Pages 20-28

4. Efficacy of Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness: A Review of Papers in the English Language

   • R. J. Daly, H. A. Ross

   Pages 29-57

5. Research Strategies and Design in Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness: Review of the Nordic Literature

   • J.-O. Ottosson

   Pages 58-66

6. An Empirical Study of Different Aftercare Strategies for Patients Who Attempted Suicide: The Effect of Psychotherapy on Compliance and Outcome

   • H.-J. Möller, F. Bürk, A. Kurz, A. Torhorst, C. Wächtler, H. Lauter

   Pages 67-76

7. Evaluation of Behaviour Therapy in Anorexia Nervosa

   • M. M. Fichter, W. Keeser

   Pages 77-92

8. Evaluation of Psychological Treatments for Depression

   • P. Hermann

   Pages 93-102

9. Family Therapy of Alcoholism: An Evaluation of Its Efficiency as a Predetoxification Move

   • J. P. Roussaux

   Pages 103-106

10. Preliminary Studies of an Evaluation Research of Psychotherapies

    • J. Bovet

    Pages 107-109

11. Psychotherapy Research on Schizophrenia

    • P. Tienari

    Pages 110-118

12. Some Methodological Recommendations from the Hamburg Short Psychotherapy Comparison Experiment

    • A.-E. Meyer

    Pages 119-127

13. Experimental Design in Behavioural Psychotherapy

    • I. M. Marks

    Pages 128-132

14. Evaluation of Behavioural Treatments

    • B. Samuel-Lajeunesse, M. Agathon

    Pages 133-137

15. Special Design Approaches to Small Groups and Mixed Treatments

    • K. G. Götestam

    Pages 138-148

16. The Evaluation of Sex Therapy: Some Methodological Considerations

    • J. Bancroft

    Pages 149-152

17. Back Matter

    Pages 153-155

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The group of European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) was formed in 1971 by the medical research councils or equivalent organizations in Western Europe and became a Standing Committee of the European Science Foundation in 1975. The aims of the EMRC are to exchange information on research policies and to initiate and stimulate international cooperation in biomedical research. Research on mental illness is one of the areas of special im­ portance identified by the EMRC. Having surveyed the activities of its member organizations in mental illness research the EMRC decided in 1978 to set up a study group in order to promote European collaboration on research needed in this field. It was decided that emphasis should be on research on treatment and on the evaluation of treatment. The group prepared a proposal to the EMRC which suggested organizing small workshops with the participation of two or three research workers from each member country as well as from organizations with observer status in the EMRC such as they WHO and the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The members of the Study Group nominated by the EMRC are at present Professors E. Anttinen (Finland), R. Daly (Ireland), T. Helgason (Iceland; chairman), H. Hippius (Federal Republic of Germany), and E. A. Sand (Belgium), and Dr. R. Sadoun (France).

• Anorexia nervosa
• compliance
• depression
• psychotherapy
• schizophrenia
• suicide
• therapy

• Department of Psychiatry, Cork Regional Hospital, Wilton, Cork, Ireland

  Robert J. Daly

• Laboratoire d’Epidémiologie et de Médecine Sociale, Ecole de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

  E. Alfred Sand

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