Trial reportBMC psychiatry2021
The first experimental study of transference work-in teenagers (FEST-IT): a multicentre, observer- and patient-blind, randomised controlled component study.
Trial report in BMC psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01531101 (First Experimental Study of Transference Work - In Teenagers), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers.
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First Experimental Study of Transference Work - In Teenagers
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Comparative effectiveness of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depression in psychiatric outpatient clinics: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Personality Disorders as a Possible Moderator of the Effects of Relational Interventions in Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Depressed Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Do Sleep Disturbances Improve Following Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescent Depression?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Conflicted Anger as a Central Dynamic in Depression in Adolescents-A Double Case Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Transference interventions in psychodynamic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: a qualitative study.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The importance of early primary relationships in the development and psychoanalytic understanding of emptiness: connecting developmental theory with practice.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Specific and common therapeutic factors in psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: an overview.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Transference interpretation and psychotherapy outcome: a systematic review of a no-consensus relationship.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2024Article
- Enhancing Psychotherapy Outcomes by Encouraging Patients to Regularly Self-Monitor, Reflect on, and Share Their Affective Responses Toward Their Therapist: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Development and Initial Validation of the in-Session Patient Affective Reactions Questionnaire (SPARQ) and the Rift In-Session Questionnaire (RISQ).Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Examining Psychotherapeutic Processes with Depressed Adolescents: A Comparative Study of Two Psychodynamic Therapies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Inter-Rater Reliability of the Structured Interview of DSM-IV Personality (SIDP-IV) in an Adolescent Outpatient Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Therapists' Emotional Responses in Individual Therapy with Depressed Adolescents: An Evaluation of the Data Structure of the Feeling-Word Checklist-28.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Parental Bonding and Relationships with Friends and Siblings in Adolescents with Depression.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Alliance: A Comparison Study between Adolescent Patients and Their Therapists.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Psychotherapy Dropout: Using the Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-Set to Explore the Early In-Session Process of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- "Like I'm Talking to a Real Person": Exploring the Meaning of Transference for the Use and Design of AI-Based Applications in Psychotherapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundLittle is known about the influence on outcome of exploration of the patient-therapist relationship (that is, transference work) in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We hypothesized that depressed adolescents would have better long-term effects from psychoanalytic psychotherapy with than without transference work.
methodsDepressed adolescent (16 to 18 years) were recruited in health authority funded out-patient clinics in Oslo and Vestfold County, Norway. They were randomized to 28 weeks of treatment with psychoanalytic psychotherapy with or without transference work. Change was assessed using linear-mixed models. The primary outcome measure was the Psychodynamic Functioning Scale (pre- post-, and 1-year post-treatment). Level of depression was measured at the same time points and during therapy (week 12, and 20).
results69 adolescents were treated with (N = 39) or without (N = 31) transference work. The mean number of sessions was 18.6 (SD = 8,6) in the transference work group and 18.0 (SD = 10.9) in the non-transference work group. Both groups showed large and significant improvement on Psychodynamic Functioning Scale during the whole study period. The difference between the two groups was not significant during the treatment period (95% CI -.79 to 1.2, p = .674, F = .18), or from post-treatment to one-year follow-up (95% CI -.13 to .96; p = .134; F = 2.3). For the secondary outcome measures the transference work group had significantly better outcomes from 12 weeks in treatment to one-year follow-up (Beck Depression Inventory, 95% CI - 1.7 to -.14, p = .022; Montgomery and Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, 95% CI - 1.6 to -.23, p = .009).
conclusionThe findings suggest that exploration of the adolescents' relations to the therapist amplify the effects of short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy on their depressive symptoms for adolescents with a Major Depressive Disorder.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov . Id: NCT01531101 . Registered 8 February 2012.
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