Patient characteristics, patient experience from psychotherapy, and psychotherapy effectiveness

Evaluation of psychotherapy. Efficacy, effectiveness, and patient progress.

Treatment-focused research is concerned with the establishment of the comparative efficacy and effectiveness of clinical interventions, aggregated over groups of patients. The authors introduce and illustrate a new paradigm-patient-focused research-that is concerned with the monitoring of an individual's progress over the course of treatment and the feedback of this information to the practitio...

Young adults in psychoanalytic psychotherapy: patient characteristics and therapy outcome.

The aims of this naturalistic study are to present patient characteristics and analyse various outcome measures at termination for psychoanalytic psychotherapies with young adults. Patients (n = 134) between 18 and 25 years were included, of whom 92 received individual and 42 group therapy. One third had a self-reported personality disorder. The patients were considerably more troubled than Swe...

General Misconceptions Regarding Patient-Therapist Characteristics and Psychotherapy Outcome.

Therapist-Patient Expectancies in Psychotherapy

''/Oh n * * a"Cll| LiApCClUUUCd 111 r^uiuuici j u /lf/tum i . uuiujftt/t ^?? U5U ress, 1963, 305.) Cla'nftSyCll0therapists ^ave ̂ een susPici?us ?f the credentials of many investigators who 3ppro ?^udy their results. Only too often has investigation been based upon a mechanistic 4s ^ s. ln which the concepts were of illnesses as discrete entities, and of psychotherapy Patien^ndard commodity, to ...

Therapist-patient Expectancies in Psychotherapy

Goldstein, Ph.D. (Pp. xvi + 141. 30s) Oxford and London: Pergamon Press, 1962. A BIBLIOGRAPHIY' of 342 referenices in(licates the tlhoroughness with which the author has surveyed the literature related to his subject. Recent personality theories, such as those of Rotter and of Kelly, provide him with the keynote to his studies. Both tend to; regard behaviour as basically anticipatory rather tha...