Humanistic therapies versus treatment as usual for depression

Philippa Davies; Vivien Hunot; Theresa Hm Moore; Deborah Caldwell; Hannah Jones; Glyn Lewis; Rachel Churchill

doi:10.1002/14651858.CD008701

Humanistic therapies versus treatment as usual for depression

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010:(9):CD008701. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008701.

Authors

Philippa Davies¹, Vivien Hunot¹, Theresa Hm Moore¹, Deborah Caldwell², Hannah Jones³, Glyn Lewis², Rachel Churchill¹

Affiliations

¹ Academic Unit of Psychiatry, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
² School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
³ Cochrane Schizophrenia Group, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Abstract

This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of all humanistic therapies compared with treatment as usual/waiting list/attention placebo control conditions for acute depression.To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of different humanistic therapy models (person-centred, gestalt, process-experiential, transactional analysis, existential and non-directive therapies) compared with treatment as usual/waiting list/attention placebo control conditions for acute depression.To examine the effectiveness and acceptability of all humanistic therapies compared with different types of comparator (standard care, no treatment, waiting list, attention placebo) for acute depression.