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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Selvapandiyan, Jaiganesh
• Das, Anindya
• Singh, Gurvinder Pal

Titel

Research on psychotherapy in India: A systematic review

Ist Teil von

• Indian journal of psychiatry, 2024-02, Vol.66 (2), p.123-134

Ort / Verlag

India: Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We systematically reviewed empirical studies of psychotherapy with Indian clients. We defined psychotherapy as an intervention aimed at treating mental disorders using "talk," which, in a professional medical setting, along with the therapeutic relationship, acquires medicinal value. Besides manual searches in three leading Indian psychiatry journals, we conducted digital searches in PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases. We found that the commonly practiced evidence-based psychotherapy in India follows the cognitive-behavioral model. Our findings suggest several replication studies which claimed to have used the well-established western models of cognitive behavioural paradigm but have mostly focused on basic behavioural techniques in their protocol. A few innovations were observed, and several essential errors were noted. Innovations include contextual modifications to address the difficulties and challenges faced in service delivery, while errors include deviations from protocol without adequate rationale.