No / Chronic pain is currently under-diagnosed and under-treated, partly because doctors' training in pain management is often inadequate. This situation looks certain to become worse with the rapidly increasing elderly population unless there is a wider adoption of best pain management practice. This paper reviews current knowledge of the development of chronic pain and the multidisciplinary team approach to pain therapy. The individual topics covered include nociceptive and neuropathic pain, peripheral sensitization, central sensitization, the definition and diagnosis of chronic pain, the biopsychosocial model of pain and the multidisciplinary approach to pain management. This last section includes an example of the implementation of a multidisciplinary approach in Belgium and describes the various benefits it offers; for example, the early multidimensional diagnosis of chronic pain and rapid initiation of evidence-based therapy based on an individual treatment plan. The patient also receives continuity of care, while pain relief is accompanied by improvements in physical functioning, quality of life and emotional stress. Other benefits include decreases in catastrophizing, self-reported patient disability, and depression. Improved training in pain management is clearly needed, starting with the undergraduate medical curriculum, and this review is intended to encourage further study by those who manage patients with chronic pain.

Intensive in-home services is a family-centered, strength-based intervention program offering comprehensive treatment that includes family therapy, mental health treatment and parenting skills for caregivers, development of positive social systems, and assistance with accessing community resources for long-term support (Youth Villages, 2013b). Framed on family system theory, Intensive-In Home Services (IIHS) was developed from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Social Development, and Crisis Intervention models as a means to modify behaviors that place youth at risk for out-of-home placement. The socio-historical development of these models is examined in the literature review. Intensive in-home services is a family-centered, strength-based intervention program offering comprehensive treatment that includes family therapy, mental health treatment and parenting skills for caregivers, development of positive social systems, and assistance with accessing community resources for long-term support (Youth Villages, 2013b). Framed on family system theory, Intensive-In Home Services (IIHS) was developed from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Social Development, and Crisis Intervention models as a means to modify behaviors that place youth at risk for out-of-home placement. The socio-historical development of these models is examined in the literature review. The purpose of this study was to evaluate predictors that may influence outcome measures of a youth’s inclination to remain in the home after having received IIHS treatment. The significant predictors were determined to be age, race, and total length of service received. The study sampled 3,131 youth ages birth through 17 who received IIHS services in Tennessee over a 10-year period and were discharged from July 2001 to July 2010. The study was limited to youth designated under Comprehensive Child and Family Treatment (CCFT), which is classified as part of TennCare coverage. The primary goal of CCFT is to empower families to monitor and manage mental health needs and high-risk youth behaviors in order to provide permanency and longterm stability in the natural home environment (UnitedHealthcare, 2012).

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Evidenz zur Diagnostik und Therapie neuropsychologischer Störungen nach Hirnschädigung, wie sie bis 2020 in Leitlinien publiziert wurde. Deren Umsetzung ist nur möglich, wenn die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen dies erlauben. Unter Einbezug der klinischen Erfahrung wurden daher auf Basis der Leitlinien Standards für eine wissenschaftlich fundierte neuropsychologische Diagnostik und Therapie erarbeitet. Es entstanden Best-Practice-Empfehlungen zu Strukturund Prozessqualität, insbesondere zu Intensität und Häufigkeit der Interventionen. Diese werden für die wichtigsten neuropsychologischen Funktionsbereiche vorgestellt. Sowohl die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie e. V. (GNP) als auch die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie e. V. (DGN) unterstützen diese Empfehlungen. Sie richten sich an Neuropsycholog_innen sowie an Einrichtungsleitende und Sozialversicherungsträger und definieren die Rahmenbedingungen für eine auf den individuellen Fall angepasste leitliniengerechte neuropsychologische Behandlung. / Recent years have seen the establishment of evidence-based guidelines for neuropsychological diagnostics and therapy; however, implementing these guidelines depends on structures and processes necessary to enable essential aspects like therapy frequency and intensity. The present work examines the current scientific evidence for the neuropsychological treatment of traumatic and nontraumatic brain injury, as published in guidelines up to 2020. Standards for evidence-based neuropsychological diagnostics and therapy were developed on this basis, including clinical experience and additional literature research. Best-practice recommendations on both general and specific structural and process quality emerged, especially on the intensity and frequency of interventions. These are presented for the most important neuropsychological functional areas. The German Neuropsychological Society (GNP) and the German Society for Neurology (DGN) support these recommendations. They are aimed at neuropsychologists as well as facility managers and social insurance providers, and they define the framework for guideline-based neuropsychological treatment adapted to individual cases.

O abuso sexual é uma forma de violência interpessoal que acomete milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo, 20% das mulheres e 2% dos homens relatam passar por algum tipo de abuso sexual durante a vida. O Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT) é um dos possíveis resultados do abuso sexual e compromete a qualidade de vida do indivíduo e também suas relações interpessoais, com sintomas de reexperiência, hiperexcitação, esquiva e alterações em cognição e humor. As principais terapias baseadas em evidências para o tratamento de TEPT: Cognitive Processing Therapy e Prolonged Exposure, ambos com base na exposição, apesar de apresentarem dados empíricos e significativos de mudança, apontam até 50% de evasão a terapia, dificuldade de implementação pelo terapeuta e aumento de sintomas pela exposição. Os estudos em Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional (FAP) têm mostrado resultados satisfatórios na compreensão e aprimoramento dos processos de mudanças clínicas com foco na relação terapêutica. Levando em consideração que pessoas com TEPT tendem a apresentar comportamentos de esquivas emocionais, esquivas de relações de intimidade e de confiança e que a FAP tem por objetivo proporcionar mudanças por meio da relação terapêutica, os objetivos do presente estudo foram: 1) investigar os efeitos da FAP como tratamento para pessoas com TEPT por abuso sexual, e 2) os processos de mudança clínica envolvidos na utilização da FAP. Os participantes foram uma terapeuta/pesquisadora, três aferidores de concordância e três clientes adultos. A intervenção ocorreu com delineamento experimental de caso único, com introdução da variável independente (FAP) em diferentes momentos para cada participante, na seguinte disposição: Linha de Base - A - B (delineamento em linha de base múltipla - DLBM). As sessões foram transcritas e categorizadas com uso do Sistema de Categorização da Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional (FAPRS), a fim de encontrar os processos envolvidos nas mudanças clínicas, com foco na relação terapêutica. Já as melhoras do cliente foram analisadas por meio dos instrumentos: Escala de Sintomas de Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático (PCL-C) e Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45). O padrão comportamental de esquivas de situações que sinalizavam intimidade e vulnerabilidade foi encontrado em todas as participantes por meio da conceituação do caso. Os resultados apontaram que, após a introdução da variável independente (FAP) os comportamentos clinicamente relevantes do tipo problema (CRB1) diminuíram drasticamente e os comportamentos clinicamente relevantes de melhora (CRB2) aumentaram. Ademais, o instrumento FAPRS apontou a potência da Regra 3 (consequenciar diferencialmente) e da Regra 2 (evocar) como os principais processos de mudanças clínicas na FAP. Os efeitos da FAP foram observados também no instrumento PCL-C, com queda dos escores para as clientes que tiveram maior tempo de intervenção FAP, dado corroborado pelos resultados do OQ-45 que também tiveram queda após a introdução da FAP, com exceção da participante exposta à menos sessões com a variável independente (FAP). Dessa forma, esse estudo pontua a eficácia da FAP para o tratamento de vítimas de abuso sexual e o primeiro caso de sucesso na utilização do DLBM em pesquisas de prática clínica / Sexual abuse is a type of interpersonal violence that happens among millions of people worldwide, 20% of women and 2% of men states being a victim of sexual abuse during their lives. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the possible outcomes of sexual abuse that compromises the life quality of the victim and interpersonal relationships, experiencing symptoms as re-experience, hyperexcitation, avoidance and negative changes in thinking and mood. The main evidence based practice for treatment of PTSD: Cognitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure, both based on exposure, although they show data of meaningful changes, they point up to 50% of drop-out rates, difficult implementation by therapists and increase of re-experience symptoms. Researches on Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) have shown satisfactory results related to the knowledge and improvement in the mechanism of change mainly occurring in the therapeutic relationship. Considering that people with PTSD tend to show emotional avoidance, avoidance of intimacy and trust and that FAP has as main goal to provide changes through therapeutic relationship, the current study aimed to investigate: 1) the effects of FAP, as treatment for victims of sexual abuse with PTSD and 2) the FAP mechanism of change. The participants were a therapist-researcher, three agreement coders and three clients. The study had a single-case experimental design, introducing the independent variable (FAP) in different time for each client, following: baseline - A - B (multiple baseline design MBLD). The sessions were transcribed and coded with Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Rating Scale (FAPRS) aimed to study the therapeutic relationship and to find the mechanism of change. The clients improvements were analyzed through the assessments: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL-C) and Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45). The avoidance patterns that indicated intimacy and vulnerability were found in all clients through the case conceptualization. Results indicated that after the introduction of FAP the clinical relevant problems behaviors (CRBs1) considerably decreased and the clinical relevant improvements behaviors (CRBs2) increased. In addition, the FAPRS assessment indicated that Rule 3 and Rule 2 were the main mechanism of change in FAP. The FAP effects were also analyzed by the OQ-45 and PCL-C assessments that showed decreased scores by the clients who had the longest period of FAP intervention. In conclusion, the current study demonstrated the efficacy of FAP in the treatment of sexual abuse victims and is the first successful study using MBLD in clinical researches

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