Tag: control-focused behavioral treatment
The biological imperative: From natural recovery to Control Focused Behavioral Treatment of psychological trauma—An ethological and evolutionary perspective
Abstract For decades, post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been conceptualized primarily as a psychopathology requiring clinical remediation. This article argues that natural recovery from traumatic stress is the biological default, and that PTSD represents a condition of interrupted recovery within a phylogenetically ancient adaptive system. Drawing on ethology, evolutionary biology, learning theory, and clinical research,… Read More ›
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Control‑Focused Behavioral Treatment: A critical comparison of their theoretical, socio‑political, and philosophical implications
Makalenin Türkçe versiyonu Abstract For over four decades, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has maintained an uncontested hegemony within global mental health care, positioned by clinical guidelines as the undisputed “gold standard.” However, a rigorous deconstruction of clinical outcomes data reveals substantial limitations: high long‑term relapse rates, a failure to outperform stripped‑down behavioral treatments in dismantling studies,… Read More ›
A Critical Look at Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Its “Third Wave” Derivatives
Makalenin Türkçe versiyonu ABSTRACT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has long been regarded as the gold standard in psychotherapy, yet a close examination of the evidence reveals persistent uncertainties about its core mechanisms. Dismantling studies have consistently failed to show that cognitive restructuring adds meaningful benefit over purely behavioral interventions such as exposure and behavioral activation. The… Read More ›
The likely psychological toll of the disaster in Japan and its socio-economic consequences: Prospects for recovery from mass trauma
The recent 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating tsunami that followed are likely to lead to widespread mental health problems in survivors. Based on our research with earthquake survivors in Turkey, we would expect traumatic stress problems severe enough to require treatment in more than 50% of the people with high levels of expoure… Read More ›
