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August 26, 2010
CBT May Help Adults With AD/HD.
The Los Angeles Times (8/24, Healy) "Booster Shots" blog reported that, according to a study published in the Aug. 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), "a form of psychotherapy that focuses on changing patterns of thought and behavior that are counterproductive, can help" adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). Researchers found that 12 50-minute sessions of CBT "that aimed to educate, coach, and devise strategies to improve and sustain focus, helped subjects live and work more effectively."
The CNN (8/24, Landau) "The Chart" blog reported that investigators randomized "86 adults who had already been taking medications for AD/HD before entering the study...to one of two therapies," either CBT or "training in progressive muscle relaxation and other techniques as applied to AD/HD symptoms." The study authors discovered that "participants who went through cognitive behavioral therapy had significantly better outcomes than those who did the relaxation therapy."
What's more, "the improvements lasted the whole year" in the CBT group, HealthDay (8/24, Gardner) reported. Now, according to the researchers, "the questions are whether patients will go for it and whether insurance companies will pay for it." Reuters (8/25, Pittman) also covers the story, as did WebMD (8/24, Hendrick).
Posted by admin at August 26, 2010 08:13 PM