"Psychotherapy trials should report the side effects of treatment"

[Tom Kindlon]

(April 30)
Title: Psychotherapy trials should report the side effects of treatment

http://bit.ly/1mhZm8r i.e. http://www.thementalelf.net/treatment-and-prevention/talking/psychological-therapies/psychotherapy-trials-should-report-the-side-effects-of-treatment/

This summarises some research studies that looked at the issue:

"We associate side effects more with drug treatments, but any therapy that’s powerful enough to have a good effect may also have a bad effect"

"The lack of evidence about the potential harms of psychotherapies makes treatment decisions more difficult"

"Researchers, clinicians and patients need to accept the potential for psychotherapy to cause adverse events"

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I looked at the issue in my (open-access) paper:

Kindlon T. "Reporting of Harms Associated with Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" Bulletin of the IACFS/ME. 2011;19(2):59-111. http://bit.ly/T3suWA i.e. http://iacfsme.org/BULLETINFALL2011/Fall2011KindlonHarmsPaperABSTRACT/tabid/501/Default.aspx

 

[barbc56]

Very interesting. Thanks @Tom Kindlon
Barb

 

[Esther12]

It has been surprising to me how little this area has been considered. A lot of the ideas I saw in @Tom Kindlon 's paper seemed so obviously sensible that I hadn't really realised that they had been so rarely considered in academic texts previously - I didn't give it enough credit for them. I thought it was just CFS that was remiss in this area!