Depression Clinical Psychology

Depression and Clinical Psychology

In this paper I will be looking at a research study done about depression, it is being studied in a medical setting and that leads us to depression and clinical psychology. The reason I selected these two topics are because I feel like the best way to treat depression is with clinical psychology. Depression is often talked about but there are not many different types of treatments out there. I decided to look into a research study done by Stefan Hofman. The study gives people suffering from all kinds of ailments clinical psychology in the form of mindful based therapy to see how they respond to it regardless of the injury or reason for medical treatment. Mindful based therapy
The study also goes on to explain how mindful based therapy helps to improve anxiety as well as depression. I feel that the researcher used many references to show how MBT works and is used in many parts of the world. I feel they could have included studies for other types of treatments for depression. The research tends to use references that only help the positive results of the study. The research only shows references that go along with the hypothesis of the experiment. While other research could have been included the research that was included covered the topic of MBT very well. Thirty nine studies totaling or 1,140 participants were receiving MBT as well as whatever medical treatment they required for a range of conditions, including cancer, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and other psychiatric or medical conditions showed great improvement over the course of this
We conducted searches for studies published between the first available year and April 1, 2009, using the search term mindfulness combined with the terms meditation, program, therapy, or intervention and anxi*, depress*, mood, or stress. Additionally, an extensive manual review was conducted of reference lists of relevant studies and review articles extracted from the database searches. Articles determined to be related to the topic of mindfulness were selected for further examination. Studies were selected if (a) they included a mindfulness-based intervention, (b) they included a clinical sample (i.e., participants had a diagnosable psychological or physical/medical disorder), (c) they included adult samples (18–65 years of age), (d) the mindfulness program was not coupled with treatment using acceptance and commitment therapy or dialectical behavior therapy, (e) they included a measure of anxiety and/or mood symptoms at both pre- and postintervention, and (f) they provided sufficient data to perform effect size analyses (i.e., means and standard deviations, t or F values, change scores, frequencies, or probability levels). Studies were excluded if the sample overlapped either partially or completely with the sample of another study meeting inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. In these cases, we selected for inclusion the