Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2016
Treatment expectations for cognitive-behavioral therapy and light therapy for seasonal affective disorder: Change across treatment and relation to outcome.
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- Moderators of Cognitive Therapy and Bright Light Therapy Effects on Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Breast Cancer.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Trial
- From Expectation to Learning: A Mediational Model of Exposure Therapy Outcome in Anxiety Disorders.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2026Article
- Sudden Gains in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder.Cognitive therapy and research · 2025Article
- Treatment expectations and depressive symptoms in an internet-based intervention for depression. A secondary analysis.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Self-Efficacy Effects on Symptom Experiences in Daily Life and Early Treatment Success in Anxiety Patients.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Parent Explanatory Model Personalization as a Method of Reducing Risk for Poor Engagement and Outcomes in PCIT among Culturally Diverse Families.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Credibility and expectancy of smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy among adults with body dysmorphic disorder.Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders · 2023Article
- Early response to cognitive behavioral therapy for body dysmorphic disorder as a predictor of outcomes.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- A systematic review of neural, cognitive, and clinical studies of anger and aggression.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Could Treatment Matching Patients' Beliefs About Depression Improve Outcomes?Behavior therapy · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the dynamic relationship between treatment expectations and treatment outcome over the course of a clinical trial for winter seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
methodCurrently depressed adults with Major Depression, Recurrent with Seasonal Pattern (N = 177) were randomized to 6 weeks of group-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy for SAD (CBT-SAD) or light therapy (LT). The majority were female (83.6%) and white (92.1%), with a mean age of 45.6 years. Treatment expectations for CBT-SAD and LT were assessed using a modification of the Treatment Expectancy and Credibility Survey (Borkovec & Nau, 1972). Depression severity was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996). All measures were administered at pretreatment, midtreatment, and posttreatment.
resultsAs treatment progressed, expectations for the treatment received increased across time steeply in CBT-SAD patients and moderately in LT patients. Collapsing across time, patients with higher treatment expectations had lower depression severity than those with lower treatment expectations. In a cross-lagged panel path analysis, there was a significant effect of treatment expectations at midtreatment on depression severity at posttreatment among CBT-SAD patients.
conclusionsTreatment expectations changed across treatment, affected outcome, and should be assessed and monitored repeatedly throughout treatment. Findings suggest that treatment expectations at midtreatment are a mechanism by which CBT-SAD reduces depression, which should be replicated in SAD samples and examined for generalizability to nonseasonal depression. These findings underscore the importance of further research examining treatment expectations in mediating CBT's effects in depression and other types of psychopathology. (PsycINFO Database Record
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