Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Today, I read an article on a newly developed CBT model for IBS. It was run as a pilot on around 50 subjects. The treatment had three phases: education about the psychological factors in IBS, use of mindfulness and self-awareness of the moment, and exposure and response prevention strategies. The treatment reduced all but the diarrhea symptoms to a clinically significant degree. The treatment appears to be much like earlier treatments developed for IBS using CBT.