Psychotherapy for depression in adults: a meta-analysis of comparative outcome studies.

By Pim Cuijpers, A. van Straten, Gerhard Andersson, P. van Oppen. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008

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A Comparative Study on the Efficacy of a Positive Psychology Intervention and a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Clinical Depression (2017, background): “A group format was chosen for delivering the interventions due to its cost-effectiveness and widespread application that allowed comparison with previous studies (Cuijpers et al. 2008b).”
Major depression. (2014, background): “Many forms of psychotherapy including cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral activation therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, problem-solving therapy, nondirective counseling, and psychodynamic therapy show effectiveness in the treatment of MDD.(102) No one type of psychotherapy is thought to be s”
The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. (2010, background): “For example, studies that have directly compared CBT with short-term psychodynamic therapy for depression have failed to show greater efficacy for CBT over psychodynamic therapy or vice versa (Cuijpers et al., 2008; Leichsenring, 2001).”
Assertiveness Training: A Forgotten Evidence-Based Treatment (2018, methodology): “Two meta-analyses of past research comparing psychotherapy outcomes for depression in adults (Barth et al., 2013; Cuijpers et al., 2008) and a review of the social skills literature (Jackson, Moss, & Solinski, 1985) have come to largely the same conclusion, finding that social skills training,…”