@article{ref1,
title="Treatment of depression from a self-regulation perspective: basic concepts and applied strategies in self-system therapy",
journal="Cognitive therapy and research",
year="2017",
author="Strauman, Timothy J. and Eddington, Kari M.",
volume="41",
number="1",
pages="1-15",
abstract="Self-regulation models of psychopathology provide a theory-based, empirically supported framework for developing psychotherapeutic interventions that complement and extend current cognitive-behavioral models. However, many clinicians are only minimally familiar with the psychology of self-regulation. The aim of the present manuscript is twofold. First, we provide an overview of self-regulation as a motivational process essential to well-being and introduce two related theories of self-regulation which have been applied to depression. Second, we describe how self-regulatory concepts and processes from those two theories have been translated into psychosocial interventions, focusing specifically on self-system therapy (SST), a brief structured treatment for depression that targets personal goal pursuit. Two randomized controlled trials have shown that SST is superior to cognitive therapy for depressed clients with specific self-regulatory deficits, and both studies found evidence that SST works in part by restoring adaptive self-regulation. Self-regulation-based psychotherapeutic approaches to depression hold significant promise for enhancing treatment efficacy and ultimately may provide an individualizable framework for treatment planning.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0147-5916",
doi="10.1007/s10608-016-9801-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-016-9801-1"
}