a rich array of brief clinical interventions designed to be of help to children and adolescents. A small number of these interventions have been rigorously evaluated, but those whose outcomes have been studied have demonstrated very promising results. In fact, the last decade has witnessed a significant increase in published reports of brief psychotherapy with children and adolescents, includin...

Reflective-functioning (RF) is the ability to recognize the existence and nature of mental processes taking place in the self and in others (e.g., intentions and wishes). RF was investigated here as a patient variable during the process in two studies of brief psychotherapy. The first study investigated cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in the TDCRP sample...

The authors examined immediacy (i.e., discussions about the here-and-now therapeutic relationship) in a 12-session case of individual interpersonal psychotherapy. Therapist immediacy during immediacy events most often focused on parallels between external relationships and the therapy relationship, encouraging expression of immediate feelings, processing termination, therapist expressing disapp...

This article provides a review of research on the relationship between aspects of transference interpretation and outcome in dynamic psychotherapy. It also presents the results of a recently completed study that focused on 2 aspects of transference interpretations, concentration and correspondence. Significant relationships between each of these 2 aspects and both therapeutic alliance and outco...

The evaluation of the outcome of health services technologies is a requirement for their efficient provision in clinical practice. The most reliable evidence for treatment efficacy comes from randomized trials. Randomized trials in general practice pose particular methodological and practical difficulties. In this paper, we discuss how best to plan and manage a clinical trial in this setting. W...

Immediacy was examined in a 17-session case of brief therapy with a bright, articulate, inner-city, African American female client seeing an interpersonally oriented, White, male therapist. The main types of therapist immediacy were reinforcing the client for in-session behavior, inviting the client to collaborate, inquiring about client reactions to therapy, and reminding the client that it wa...