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Peer reviewedFrank, Jerome D. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979
Outcome research, despite progress in standardization of change measures and specification of therapeutic procedures, continues to fail to demonstrate significant differences in the effectiveness of these procedures for most conditions. Based on clinical impressions and scattered research findings, potentially promising research approaches to…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Client Relationship, Measurement Techniques, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedMadill, Anna; Barkham, Michael – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997
Explores the role of discourse analysis in psychotherapy, change-process research. Focuses on how available linguistic resources, or cultural meanings, can both construct the client's problem and negotiate its solution. Discusses the implications of studying therapeutic change as a discursive activity comprising the use and negotiation of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Cultural Influences
Peer reviewedWhipple, Jason L.; Lambert, Michael J.; Vermeersch, David A.; Smart, David W.; Nielsen, Stevan L.; Hawkins, Eric J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2003
Examines whether feedback regarding client progress and the use of clinical support tools (CSTs) affected client outcome and number of sessions attended. Results showed that clients in the feedback plus CST group stayed in therapy longer and had superior outcomes. Nearly twice as many clients in the feedback plus CST group achieved clinically…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Early Identification, Feedback
Peer reviewedShapiro, David A.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1995
Examines the effects of cognitive-behavioral (CB) or psychodynamic-interpersonal (PI) psychotherapy by having clients (n=104) complete a follow-up 1 year after completing 8 or 16 session of treatment. Eight-session PI appeared less efficacious than the other 3 treatment conditions, and there was no measurable benefit of 16-session over 8-session…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Depression (Psychology), Evaluation
Peer reviewedFauber, Robert L.; Long, Nicholas – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Identifies family factors related to child psychopathology and argues that researchers and clinicians interested in the question of family involvement should increase their focus on the presence of family process variables that may be actively contributing to the child's difficulties. Outlines research issues and clinical guidelines. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Effectiveness
Peer reviewedLichtenberg, James W.; Wettersten, Kara B.; Mull, Holly; Moberly, Rebecca L.; Merkley, Katherine B.; Corey, Amy Tiongson – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1998
Therapeutic outcome as a function of a transition from relational incongruence to congruence, and the association of relational congruence and control with qualitative aspects of the therapy relationship and outcome are studied. Therapist/client interactions within and across seven psychotherapy cases are described. Methods of study and results…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedKrupnick, Janice L.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Examined the relationship between therapeutic alliance and treatment outcome for depressed outpatients who received interpersonal psychotherapy, imipramine with clinical management, or placebo with clinical management. Clinical raters scored videotapes of early, middle, and late therapy sessions for 225 cases (619 sessions). Results indicate the…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling Effectiveness, Depression (Psychology), Outcomes of Treatment
Peer reviewedMellin, Elizabeth A.; Beamish, Patricia M. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2002
This article provides mental health counselors with information about the prevalence and course of adolescent depression, other empirically tested treatments for adolescent depression, an explanation of Interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescents (IPT-A) treatment protocol, and results of outcome studies on the effectiveness of IPT-A. Suggestions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories
Direct linkKlein, Daniel N.; Santiago, Neil J.; Vivian, Dina; Blalock, Janice A.; Kocsis, James H.; Markowitz, John C.; McCullough, James P., Jr.; Rush, John A.; Trivedi, Madhukar H.; Arnow, Bruce A.; Dunner, David L.; Manber, Rachel; Rothbaum, Barbara; Thase, Michael E.; Keitner, Gabor I.; Miller, Ivan W.; Keller, Martin B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
Although the efficacy of maintenance pharmacotherapy for the prevention of recurrence in major depressive disorder (MDD) is well documented, few studies have tested the efficacy of psychotherapy as a maintenance treatment. The authors examined the efficacy of the cognitive-behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP) as a maintenance…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Patients, Maintenance, Depression (Psychology)
Jamieson, Patrick E.; Romer, Daniel; Jamieson, Kathleen Hall – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
Suicidal youth tend to doubt the effectiveness of professional mental health treatment. This study examined whether exposure to films about suicidal and mentally disturbed persons supports this lack of belief. Exposure to three popular films featuring suicides or the mentally ill was compared to films that featured a heroic suicide unrelated to…
Descriptors: Films, Youth, Suicide, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedHeilbrun, Alfred B., Jr. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
Two alternative explanations for early defection of female counseling clients were tested. Greater satisfaction with nondirective interviewing by females more likely to defect was found, which favored the catharsis alternative. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Objectives, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedAbramowitz, Stephen I.; Jackson, Carolyn – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
The effectiveness of four methods of group psychotherapy was compared: interpretive there-and-then, interpretive here-and-now, these treatments in combination, and problem discussion (attention placebo). Clients' experiences were less consistently positive in the here-and-now group and tended to be more consistently positive in the combined group…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Theories, Counselor Attitudes, Group Therapy
Peer reviewedDelk, John L.; Ryan, Timothy T. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Study explored the relationship between A-B therapist status and attitudes regarding sex roles for the mentally healthy adult male and female, attitudes that would appear to have profound influence on the conduct of psychotherapy. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Individual Characteristics, Psychotherapy, Rating Scales
Peer reviewedSaccuzzo, Dennis P. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1975
The present study analyzed patient reported wants in a college-student population from the viewpoint of both patients and their therapist. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Patients
Download full textAnchor, Kenneth N. – 1974
Successful and unsuccessful outcomes in 24 therapy dyads were analyzed according to client-therapist personality integration (pi). Results indicated that successful outcome was most likely to occur when both client and therapist were high pi. Failure was most frequent among mixed sex dyads with discrepant pi differences. Implications for effective…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Helping Relationship, Individual Psychology, Personality Studies
