Psychosocial interventions for patients with chronic disease

Table 3 Different psychological, biological and sociological therapeutic interventions for chronic diseases by general practitioners, medical specialists and psychotherapists

Psychosoma- tic therapy	Individual, group insight therapy,	Individual, group CBT	Relaxa- tion	Family, social therapy	Mentali- sation	Psycho- pharma ceuticals	Other drug therapy
Psychological Reducing of symptoms	+++	+++	++	+		++	+
Changing personality traits	+++	++
Changing atti- tudes to di- sease and life	++	++
Behavioral changing behavior	+	+++	physical training groups	+			+
Sociological Gaining social support	++	++		+++
Biological targets Harmonize the autonomic imbalance	+	+	+++
Influence pathogenic psycho-inflam- matory mechanism	+?	+?	++?	?	?	?	?
Influence cerebral re- gulation of the stress response	?	?	?	?	++?	?	?
Disease oriented measurements	+	++	++			+	+++
Disease orient- ted management							+++

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