Meta-analysis is a scientific term that refers to a structured review of a particular topic in the research literature. Meta-analyses look at a bunch of research studies that have been previously published, combine all their data (or look at all of their data in a systematic fashion), and come to some broad, general conclusions from the analysis.
Meta-analyses are helpful to researchers, clinicians and laypeople alike, because they help distill the entire research literature on a specific topic into an easily digested summary.
In this research update, we look at cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for childhood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), effective treatments for depression in a mother surrounding the birth of her child, and a look at anxiety symptom prevention with cognitive-behavioral interventions.
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There are lot of research going on childhood PTSD in neuroscience.Recent research on mirror neutrons and empathy suggested that we can now track the real meaning of suffering from PTSD.Take example of Dostoevsky“s gambling mania,psychoanalyzing Freud came very near guilt feeling of Dostoevsky but unable to found out reason behind guilt feeling.Same is true about guilt feeling of Hitler and Van Gogh.
Hi,
Couple of things. I have only read a couple of studies where mother’s who have either lost or chose to terminate pregnancies suffered greater and more intense episodes of PPD and expressed feelings of inadequacy as a mother when they finally had a child. Likewise, children of emotionally or physically absent parents were more likely to feel inadequate. Proving this stuff to be the rule more then the exception would be useful for therapist trying to treat PPD. (It could also help a couple assess often unconsidered emotional risks of having a child.)
Second, the comment “But for some reason, the effects didn’t seem to last. They appeared to diminish over 6- and 12-month follow-up.” makes me wonder what environment the subjects returned to after treatment. A patient coming to you from an emotionally abusive and unsupportive family to any kind of therapy has a sustained dysfunction. The best analogy would be that the patient is the handkerchief in the middle of a tug of war rope. If you picture therapy as the obviously stronger pull on the rope, during the contest, therapy wins. However, after the therapist drops the rope and the unsupportive family is the only force, the handkerchief and easily is pulled back to where it was. How is this factor filtered out in determining the affect of therapy?
Well said, LOL. CBT is a crock of shit. I had PTSD from childhood abuse and CBT was the worst thing that happend to me when I went to find help. Well actually thats not true, it DID help me in an inverted way, how I finally came to discover what I needed and what worked, opposed to the CBT that was thrown at me. It was the lon, long route, that need not of been too long and too expensive