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5 pages in length: This paper reviews the fact that there is an ongoing debate as to whether the unipolar depressive patient responds better to pharmacotherapy or cognitive therapy based treatment. Studies reveal that patients do indeed benefit from a continued treatment of cognitive therapy in treating unipolar depression. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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the patient responds better to pharmacotherapy or cognitive therapy based treatment. Studies reveal that patients do indeed benefit from a continued treatment of cognitive therapy in treating unipolar depression.
While pharmacotherapy is helpful it should also be used in conjunction with cognitive therapy for the best results. Methods In two major studies of unipolar depression and its
treatment, neural network methods were used. The first study explored the dynamics of recovery and revealed different clinical symptom recovery patterns for desipramine (DMI), a tricyclic antidepressant drug therapy,
and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a psychotherapy. The methods used included several statistical tests of patients response times as well as parameter fits based on methods derived from optimal
control theory. The second study predicted therapeutic outcome at highly significant levels from pre-treatment clinical symptoms and compared the performance of back propagation, a nonlinear regression technique, with multiple
linear and quadratic regression. The results of both of these studies demonstrated the usefulness of nonlinear methods in clinical depression research and led researchers to discover that cognitive therapy
should be a basis in treating unipolar depressions (Luciano 1997). Participants The two groups were six patients who responded to CBT and six patients who responded to DMI. There
was no significant difference in response time for overall severity. In both of these groups mood was the first symptom to improve and middle/late sleep was the last.
Symptom improvements clustered differently by treatment. Mood and cognitions (sad mood, anxious mood, thoughts of guilt or suicide) improved significantly earlier (Luciano, PG, 1997) in CBT than in DMI.
Materials The shyness factor of the depressed patients was measured by a single scale (Romney 1997). The negative attributional style concerning achievement events and interpersonal events was
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