Objective: Video teleconferencing (VTC) is used for mental health treatment delivery to geographically remote, underserved populations. However, few studies have examined how VTC affects individual or group psychotherapy processes. This study compares process variables such as therapeutic alliance and attrition among participants receiving anger…

This study followed treatment responders from a randomized controlled trial of adults with major depression. Patients treated with medication but withdrawn onto pill-placebo had more relapse through 1 year of follow-up compared to patients who received prior behavioral activation, prior cognitive therapy, or continued medication. Prior…

The results were interpreted as demonstrating a relationship between the findings of two independent lines of research on therapy outcome, one basing outcome predictions on client-centered theoretical constructs, the other on the empirical value of the A-B scale. (Author)

No randomized clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy of psychotherapy for intermittent explosive disorder (IED). In the present study, the authors tested the efficacy of 12-week group and individual cognitive-behavioral therapies (adapted from J. L. Deffenbacher & M. McKay, 2000) by comparing them with a wait-list control in a randomized…

Estimates of the consistency of therapists from one segment to another within the same session and from one patient to the next suggested that accurate empathy may not be a stable quality of the therapist as is usually assumed, but instead may reflect a dyadic or relationship variable. (Author)

In general, none of the measures of rated disturbance was related to outcome criteria, but small to modest inverse relationships were obtained between the measures of subjective disturbance and global ratings of outcome. (Author)

This study was designed to compare experimentally the therapeutic efficacy of group therapy stressing interpretive procedures intended to bring about client insight, with a form of group therapy experience encouraging client-to-client interaction without the intentional development of insight. (Author)

Assessed male alcoholics and nonalcoholics on self-report and behavioral tests of assertive behavior and discomfort. Alcoholics reported more assertive discomfort. Both groups were less assertive in negative situations and more assertive with familiar males than females. Findings suggest assertive training with alcoholics should focus on reducing…

Investigated the across-session patterns of session impact in treatments of 117 depressed clients who were randomly allocated to 8 or 16 sessions of cognitive-behavioral or psychodynamic-interpersonal therapy. After each session clients completed the Session Evaluation Questionnaire and 75 of the clients completed the Session Impacts Scale.…

Results of this study indicated that therapists judged angry clients less favorably than sad clients. Experienced therapists showed greater tolerance of anger. Therapists intervened less with angry clients than with depressed clients; and angry clients received less supportiveness, less directiveness, and fewer requests for information.…

Clarified efficacy of psychological treatments for insomnia through a meta-analysis of 66 outcome studies representing 139 treatment groups. Psychological treatments produced considerable enhancement of both sleep patterns and the subjective experience of sleep. Participants who were clinically referred and who did not regularly use sedatives…

Early-, middle-, and late-phase client emotional arousal, perceptual processing strategies, and working alliance were examined in relation to treatment outcome on 4 measures in 32 clients who previously underwent experiential therapy for depression. Hierarchical regression analyses relating these variables to outcome indicated that results varied…