[Psychotherapeutic approaches for patients with somatoform disorders]. / Psychotherapeutische Ansätze für Patienten mit somatoformen Störungen.

Patients with somatoform symptoms are considered to be difficult to treat. Clinical studies on treatment of this condition are underrepresented compared to other mental and psychosomatic disorders. Cognitive-behavioral treatment for patients with somatoform symptoms was found to have a significant effect; additionally, some evidence of recently published findings supports psychodynamic therapy. This report provides information on how to effectively deal with those patients. Furthermore it describes transtherapeutic targets and explains three therapeutic phases: establishing a therapeutic relationship, developing a model of the disorder and establishing coping strategies. As a last point a cognitive-behavioral treatment study, a psychodynamically-oriented study, a group intervention study and a new approach, a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and emotion regulation training, are presented.

The effects of establishing operations on preference assessment outcomes.

Preference assessments were conducted for 4 individuals with developmental disabilities across conditions of (a) control, allowing equal access to all stimuli prior to the preference assessment; (b) deprivation, allowing no access to one stimulus for 48 hr prior to the assessment; and (c) satiation, allowing free access to one stimulus for 10 min immediately prior to the assessment. Deprivation resulted in increased preference, whereas satiation resulted in decreased preference compared to control conditions.