ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
Effectiveness of Open-Ended Psychotherapy Under Clinically Representative Conditions.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Process and outcome of outpatient psychotherapies under clinically representative conditions in Austria: protocol and feasibility of an ongoing study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Associations between alcohol use and outcome of psychological treatment in specialist psychiatric care - a cohort study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Improvement of personality functioning among people treated within personality disorder mental health services. A longitudinal, observational study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Affect Integration and Psychopathology in Patients with Personality Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study investigates the effectiveness of open-ended psychotherapy in a large, naturalistic, and diverse patient cohort using rigorous and multifaceted assessments.
methodPatients (N = 370) in open-ended psychotherapy completed an extensive set of self-report measures and diagnostic interviews, including long-term follow-up in order to assess stability of outcomes. About half of the patients qualified for a personality disorder at the onset of treatment. Treatments were open-ended, and on average therapists provided substantially larger treatment doses than common in the literature.
resultsA substantial majority recovered from their respective Axis I (58%) and/or Axis II (55%) disorders during treatment. Patients also experienced large positive changes in self-report measures of overall psychiatric symptoms and moderate positive changes in self-reported interpersonal problems, while very few (< 3%) demonstrated negative development. The patients maintained their diagnostic and self-assessed changes at a two-and-a-half-year follow-up. In contrast, self-reported occupational functioning showed minimal improvement throughout the treatment and follow-up phase.
conclusionA naturalistic patient cohort undergoing open-ended psychotherapy demonstrates substantial and stable improvements.
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