Table 2 Study pool of included RCTs

Class of mental disorder I: Affective disorders

 1

Brent 1997

[40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53]

ST versus CBT

Class of mental disorder II: Anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders

 2

Lebowitz 2020

[86]

ST versus CBT

 3

Peris 2013

[105,106,107,108]

ST as an add-on to CBT versus CBT alone

 4

Siqueland 2005

[116]

ST as an add-on to CBT versus CBT alone

Class of mental disorder III: Eating disorders

 5

Le Grange 2015

[87,88,89,90,91]

ST versus CBT

 6

Nyman-Carlsson 2019

[102,103,104]

ST versus CBT

 7

Schmidt 2007

[112,113,114,115]

ST versus CBT

Class of mental disorder IV: Hyperkinetic disorders

 8

Boyer 2015

[36,37,38,39]

ST versus CBT

Class of mental disorder V: Mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use

 9

CYT

[54,55,56,57,58,59,60]

ST versus CBT

 10

Dakof 2015

[61, 62]

ST versus CBT

 11

INCANT

[63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85]

ST versus CBT

 12

Liddle 2008

[92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99]

ST versus CBT

 13

Liddle 2018

[100, 101]

ST versus CBT

 14

Slesnick 2013

[117,118,119,120,121]

ST versus CBT

 15

Waldron 2001

[122, 123]

ST versus CBT