moderate depression
Conditions
Interventions
Just over clinical experimentation a method arose, in which the areas of
darkness were the starting point. By having patients to move these areas to the
center of attention and have them lighting th
Sponsors
Society for Mental Space Psychology
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Clients will be found by the therapists. They may use there regular network or add something extra like a message on social media. All clients that can be the regular visitors of the private practice are included.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The clients will be counted out of the study, when they undergo other treatments for the same complaints: like other forms of psychotherapy, medication or other alternative treatments. Also, when they score above the cut-off on the (pre) depression test they will be afterwards taken out of the sample.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The nil-hypothesis is, that there will be no diffrerence in the reduction of the amount of depressive complaints as measured on the 10 points scale and the Beck Depression Inventory for the treated and non-treated group after 30 days after the first moment of measurement. Beside that, this design results in two effect measurements after 30 days. The sought for outcome is the measurable amount of therapeutic effect above spontanious reduction (placebo) of the complainst. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Along side of the evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention, the further acqusition of insight in the reliability of dark areas in mental space as a diagnostic tool in relation to depression. The amount of reliability and validity thereoff to monitor the amount of depresiveness and the progress of the therapy will be an important step towards a mental spatial form of psychiatric diagnosis: what can become an instrument adjacent to symptom based types of diagnosis like the DSM. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed