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Paul's research focus then shifted from anxiety-related disorders to serious mental illness and the treatment of institutionalized chronic mental patients. In 1968 Paul began a 5-year long comparative outcome study of unit-wide treatment programs for chronic mental patients. [ 6 ]
Autism, ADHD, OCD, and other mental disorders were often misunderstood during the 20th century, therefore, most doctors treated them all the same way through ECT. [32] ECT was used as a broad treatment plan for those experiencing any mania. Specific treatments, therapy, and medications for each separate illness and disability wouldn't become ...
The modern deinstitutionalisation movement was made possible by the discovery of psychiatric drugs in the mid-20th century, which could manage psychotic episodes and reduced the need for patients to be confined and restrained. Another major impetus was a series of socio-political movements that campaigned for patient freedom.
Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving Impasses to Symptom Remission (2009) ISBN 1138881724; Emotion Regulation in Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2011) ISBN 1609184831 [10] Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders, 2e (2011) ISBN 9781609186494 [22]
The history of the medications used in mental disorders has developed a lot through years. The discovery of modern drugs prevailed during the 20th century. Lithium, a mood stabilizer, was discovered as a treatment of mania, by John F. Cade in 1949, "and Hammond (1871) used lithium bromide for 'acute mania with depression'". [14]
1942 – Carl Rogers published Counseling and Psychotherapy, suggesting that respect and a non-judgmental approach to therapy is the foundation for effective treatment of mental health issues. 1943 – Albert Hofmann writes his first report about the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, which he first synthesized in 1938.
A study just published in the prestigious Journal of Anxiety Disorders describes a "novel treatment" for clinically anxious kids: letting them do new things, on their own, without their parents.
In children or adolescents, CBT is an effective part of treatment plans for anxiety disorders, [63] body dysmorphic disorder, [64] depression and suicidality, [65] eating disorders [7] and obesity, [66] obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), [67] and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), [68] tic disorders, trichotillomania, and other ...