Sophie Geßner, Michael Fuchs, Lennart Heinrich Pieper, Kathleen Tretbar
{"title":"[How to Support People with Hearing Impairment beyond Hearing aid Provision - A Systematic Review on Self-Management Interventions].","authors":"Sophie Geßner, Michael Fuchs, Lennart Heinrich Pieper, Kathleen Tretbar","doi":"10.1055/a-2333-7521","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2333-7521","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>People with hearing handicap have to use a whole range of strategies to cope with everyday challenges - they have to self-manage their hearing impairment. While the support of self-management is well established in foreign language audiological rehabilitation programs, there are no recommendations in Germany yet. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review is first to give an overview of existing self-management interventions for people with hearing handicap and then to suggest possible applications in the German care system.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic literature search was conducted on PubMed. The articles dealt with self-management interventions for people with hearing impairment. This eligibility criterion was applied to titles, abstracts, and full texts. If eligible, information on the publication, intervention, and evaluation were extracted and qualitatively summarized. The methodological quality of studies was investigated using the NIH assessment tool for interventional studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>23 papers could be included and show a high heterogeneity regarding methodological quality, applied intervention, and design of evaluation. The interventions pursuing various goals include a wide range of content (e. g., communication improvement or psychosocial aspects) and have been implemented on a group-based, individual-based, or self-administered level. Despite a few studies that failed to demonstrate intervention effects, most evaluations found positive ef-fects of the intervention on hearing impairment, psychological well-being, and communication.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The included studies present a high heterogeneity with regard to methodological quality, the intervention conducted, and the evaluation design. Therefore, a summary of the findings was only possible in a qualitative manner. Possibilities of adapting existing intervention programs as well as chances and limits of an implementation in the German health care system are to be discussed in the following.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Overall, interventions including self-management support seem to be a profitable complement to sole technical device supply and should be further fostered in German-speaking countries as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141601892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Indication and Contraindication of Video-Based Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Delphi Survey to Capture Psychotherapists' Reflection and Deliberation Processes].","authors":"Isabelle Thurmann, Alena Leukhardt, Christiane Eichenberg","doi":"10.1055/a-2255-3800","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2255-3800","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The Corona pandemic forced many psychotherapists to make a rapid transition to video setting. Even after the acute phase of the pandemic, video-based treatments can be determined to a certain extent in practice. Thus, indication and contraindication recommendations are essential to ensure treatment quality. However, empirical studies are almost completely lacking in this regard. In the context of this work, the decision-making and consideration processes of psychotherapists regarding video-based treatments are to be recorded and those factors that can have an effect on the indication are to be identified.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Two-stage, qualitative Delphi survey with psychodynamically oriented psychotherapists (n=9) and behavioural therapists (n=7) who can be assigned to the fields of research and practice.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The quality of the therapeutic alliance guides the participants' choice of setting. An indication for video setting results from the feasibility of therapeutic interventions and the respective treatment goal. The therapists weighed the costs and benefits of video setting for various disorders. The changed feeling of control on both sides and the possibility of improving health care are decisive factors.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Based on the results, a decision tree for psychotherapists was created, which includes the identified indication criteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140858825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Oncological Disease and Pregnancy Denial: Psychological Support and Interdisciplinary Collaboration].","authors":"Tanja Götz, Holger Stepan, Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf, Antje Lehmann-Laue","doi":"10.1055/a-2322-8408","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2322-8408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the following casuistry, a denied advanced pregnancy was discovered during the diagnosis of an oncological disease. Faced with a life-threatening condition, the patient urged late termination of the pregnancy and was introduced to psychological counselling in order to find a viable and ethically justifiable solution. Strategies for crisis intervention and supportive approaches in the patient's care as well as interdisciplinary collaboration are presented and discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141421321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Philipp, Charlotte Walbaum, Reinhard Lindner, André Karger, Imad Maatouk, Ulrike Dinger, Sigrun Vehling
{"title":"[ORPHYS - Treatment Manual for a Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Patients with Serious Physical Illness].","authors":"Rebecca Philipp, Charlotte Walbaum, Reinhard Lindner, André Karger, Imad Maatouk, Ulrike Dinger, Sigrun Vehling","doi":"10.1055/a-2322-8596","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2322-8596","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The diagnosis of a life-threatening illness may lead to a breakdown of psychological processing patterns and a reactualization of existential conflicts. The sudden loss of continuity, physical integrity and social roles can overwhelm patients' ability to cope psychologically. Psychosocial and medical care is likely compromised if patients suffer from affective disorders or symptoms of existential distress. Psychodynamic treatments may strengthen the experience of closeness and connectedness in order to cope with losses and enable farewell processes. ORPHYS describes a short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (12-24 sessions) that aims to address the existential distress of seriously physically ill patients by taking into account relational conflicts at the end of life. The combination of supportive and expressive treatment techniques that focus on patients' subjective experience and illness situation may enable patients to integrate painful affective states and to explore their relationship and coping patterns. ORPHYS can thus facilitate a shared mourning process, in which the intense desire for connectedness at the end of life and the reality of dying can be reconciled.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141421322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frank Sauer, Mario Schmitz-Buhl, Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank
{"title":"[Effects of a Motivational Intervention on the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Sports and Exercise Therapy in Inpatient Psychiatric Care].","authors":"Frank Sauer, Mario Schmitz-Buhl, Euphrosyne Gouzoulis-Mayfrank","doi":"10.1055/a-2298-8510","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2298-8510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Reinforcement and sustainability of sports and exercise therapy in inpatient depression treatment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Randomized controlled study with 3 measurement times: t<sub>0</sub> admission to the study, t<sub>1</sub> after four weeks, t<sub>2</sub> two months after discharge. 96 inpatients with depressive disorders (ICD-10 F32, F33) were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG) or a control group (KG). In addition to sports and exercise therapy (KG), the IG received an educational and motivational session on the importance of sports and exercise, as well as a motivational final discussion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Endurance performance and physical fitness improved more significantly in the IG than in the CG over the 3 measurement times. The motivational final discussion was rated as more helpful.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The intervention was well accepted by the patients and partially increased the effects of sports and exercise therapy. Not only psychological aspects of depression treatment were influenced, but also measurable physical effects.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The practical and time-efficient motivational intervention in inpatient psychiatric care can complement sports and exercise therapy for depressive patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140870360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephan Zipfel, Ulrike Hoffmann, Ulrike Sünkel, Simone Behrens, Anne Herrmann-Werner
{"title":"[The DZPG Academy - Network for strengthening mental health in Germany].","authors":"Stephan Zipfel, Ulrike Hoffmann, Ulrike Sünkel, Simone Behrens, Anne Herrmann-Werner","doi":"10.1055/a-2349-0174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2349-0174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141907996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreas Maercker, Rahel Bachem, Celestin Mutuyimana, David Eberle
{"title":"[Toward Cultural Scripts of Trauma Sequelae].","authors":"Andreas Maercker, Rahel Bachem, Celestin Mutuyimana, David Eberle","doi":"10.1055/a-2276-4992","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2276-4992","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The concept of cultural scripts has proven to be very useful for describing depression-like psychological complaints in different cultural regions of the world. The article presents the galaxy model and its implementation in the model of cultural scripts theoretically for the first time and connects these with cultural psychological value research. A new, extensive series of research projects aims to investigate post-trauma -related psychological complaints in various regions of the world.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The work in two countries/regions began with focus groups in which elements of cultural scripts were collected by traumatized clients and/or by (therapeutic) experts. For this purpose, a theory-based framework of possible post-traumatic script elements was provided. In Switzerland, focus groups were conducted with patients and experts. Focus groups were conducted with genocide survivors and other trauma victims in Rwanda and three East African countries. The evaluation was semi-quantitative.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In Switzerland, around 50 symptoms and changes were mentioned as script elements (e. g. still having to function). Approximately 100 symptoms and changes were mentioned as script elements in East Africa (e. g. loss of dignity). The first temporal connections (i. e. strong scripts) were found for the Swiss scripts (e. g. self-devaluation - urge to function). In the East African study, cultural value orientations underlying the script groupings were also assessed (e. g. community reputation).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The illustrative results presented here demonstrate the galaxy model and the suitability of the cultural script concept for recording the effects of trauma. There are differences and similarities in the two world regions examined so far. Further steps at the two study sites will be the temporal connections and the relationships to value orientations. The studies will be started at the other study sites in the following years.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140870409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Open Debates Versus Discourse Vulnerability: A Plea for more Courage in the University Culture of Debate].","authors":"Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf","doi":"10.1055/a-2305-8587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2305-8587","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141538724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Effects of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training on Depression and Anxiety Disorders - A Pilot Study under Routine Care Conditions].","authors":"Felix Wucherpfennig, Patricia Eggert","doi":"10.1055/a-2294-2330","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2294-2330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Skills training as an integral part of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is highly effective in the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Research interest is increasingly focused on the transdiagnostic effects of the skills training on depression and anxiety disorders. The present study examined the extent to which the findings of high-quality randomized controlled studies can be transferred to everyday treatment under routine care conditions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>N=26 patients without personality disorders were treated in a day clinic over a period of eight weeks. In the control group, 11 patients received routine care treatment and in the experimental group 15 patients additionally received weekly skills training. Symptom distress, as well as emotion regulation and mindfulness were assessed longitudinally at three time points. Multilevel analyzes were used to examine whether there was an additive effect of the skills training.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The experimental group was superior to the control group in all endpoints. The effect sizes were comparable to those from experimental research. Improvements in mindfulness were significantly correlated with reductions in symptom distress.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The findings fit into previous research efforts and complement them with a naturalistic research perspective. The advantages and disadvantages of an experimental and naturalistic research perspective are discussed, and relevant limitations of the present study are highlighted.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Skills training is an established, flexible, modular therapy program that is ideal for improving the adaptability of patients with different psychological diagnoses.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140853167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Lübke, Eva Flemming, Sascha Müller, Elmar Brähler, Jörg M Fegert, Carsten Spitzer
{"title":"[Assessing Relationship Satisfaction with Four Items? Psychometric Evaluation of the Ultra-short German Version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4)].","authors":"Laura Lübke, Eva Flemming, Sascha Müller, Elmar Brähler, Jörg M Fegert, Carsten Spitzer","doi":"10.1055/a-2278-6502","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-2278-6502","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The quality of an individual's relationship plays a central role in their personal well-being as well as their mental and physical health. Despite its great importance, there are only a few ultra-short self-report measures for the assessment of relationship quality. An exception is the four-item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS-4), which is gaining increasing popularity internationally. In this study, the German version of the DAS-4 was evaluated for the first time with regard to its psychometric properties in a general population sample of individuals in a romantic relationship (N=1296). In addition to satisfactory item characteristics, the unidimensional measurement model showed sufficient goodness of fit and the internal consistency was satisfactory (ω=0.80). Measurement invariance was shown for men and women based on the latent construct of the DAS-4. In line with the hypothesis, associations of the DAS-4 with gender, general life satisfaction, psychopathology and attachment styles were found, which suggests construct validity. Despite the lack of application experiences and pending psychometric analyses of the DAS-4 in relevant target groups, such as individuals in couples counselling or therapy, the four-item version can be recommended for assessing relationship satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140871959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}