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psychotherapy outcomes
Articles tagged "psychotherapy outcomes".
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What to Expect When Therapying – Understanding Change Process Expectations
When patients walk into the first therapeutic session, meet their therapist for the first time, and sit (perhaps comfortably, perhaps uncomfortably) on the sofa, we would say therapy has begun. But did the therapy actually begin even before this moment? With their thoughts about their therapy, their fears about how it will be, their expectations […]
Dana Elberg, MA + 3 more
September 25, 2024
Evaluating the Impact of Digital CBT Lesson Completion on Clinical Outcomes
Abstract This paper reports the latest results from a series of studies investigating predictors of outcomes for users of an online, self-guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) platform. Each disorder-specific module on the platform consists of lessons with educational slides that include interactive exercises. This study investigates the number of slides completed for each lesson and […]
George (Jeb) S Brown, Ph.D. + 1 more
December 31, 2023
How to teach students to live life as a psychologist: Embedding a self-care perspective into psychology training
In discussing the training of surgeons Campbell wrote, “In the classical training program we have taught how to perform surgery, but we have not taught how to live life as a surgeon” (2001, p. 702). How well have we taught our psychology students to live life as a psychologist? Ideally, our students will learn to […]
Samuel Knapp, Ed.D., ABPP
January 5, 2023
Therapist Attachment-Related Behaviors and Their Effects on Psychotherapy Process and Outcome
For more than 20 years, our attachment research teams at Western Michigan University (WMU) have been using Bowlby’s attachment theory to examine important psychotherapy process and outcome variables. What have we found? Generally speaking, client and therapist attachment do matter in psychotherapy—often times, in many of the same ways that John Bowlby would have predicted. […]
Eric M. Sauer, Ph.D. + 3 more
March 2, 2020
The State of Multicultural Counseling Competencies Research
Due to changes in demographics in the United States, counselors and therapists are likely to serve clients who have a culturally diverse background. Data from the 2010 United States (U.S.) Census indicated that foreign-born individuals represented 13.3% of the U.S. population, some 42.3 million people (Colby & Ortman, 2014). In 2014, the U.S. population by […]
Minnah W. Farook, M.A., Ed.S.
December 12, 2018