Psychotherapy and Psychosocial Treatment: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Abstract

Psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment have been shown to be effective forms of treatment of a range of individual and complex comorbid disorders. The future role of psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment depends on several factors, including full implementation of mental health parity, correction of underlying false assumptions that shape treatment, payment priorities and research, identification and teaching of common factors or elements shared by effective psychosocial therapies, and adequate teaching of psychotherapy and psychosocial treatment.

Keywords: Comorbidity; Early adversity; Epigenetics; Parity; Personality disorders; Psychosocial treatment; Psychotherapy; Treatment resistance.