Highlights of this issue

Abstract

This article highlights a few articles from this months Journal. Two papers present the results of randomized controlled trials of psychotherapeutic interventions—cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) for personality disorder and internet-delivered cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for bulimia nervosa. Anglin et al. conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials focused on the relationship between vitamin D and depression. While Romeo et al. report on cost-effectiveness findings from a randomised controlled trial of sertraline and mirtazapine, compared with placebo, for the treatment of depression in dementia. Sellers et al. undertook a longitudinal investigation of mothers with recurrent depression and their adolescent offspring. The final paper highlighted is an editorial by Ramchandani & Murphy which discusses the complexity of likely mechanisms underpinning the association between parental depression and offspring risk of psychopathology, and warn against assumptions of causality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)