Self-determination theory is potentially useful for understanding reasons why individuals
with mental illness do or do not engage in psychiatric treatment. The current study examined …

The present study assessed motivation for engaging in treatment as rated by clinicians (n=
57) and patients with severe mental illness (SMI, n= 294) using measures based on three …

Currently, it is unclear whether Self‐Determination Theory (SDT) applies to the mental
health care of patients with severe mental illness (SMI). Therefore, the current study tested …

The TransTheoretical Model (TTM), Self-Determination Theory (SDT), and the Integral Model
of Treatment Motivation (IM) provide distinct but not incompatible conceptualisations of …

Objectives: The objective of this work was to assess the reliability and validity of the
Treatment Motivation Questionnaire—Revised (TMQ-R) in people with serious mental …

The current study tested the Integral Model of treatment motivation (IM) in a sample of 294
outpatients with severe mental illness, using structural equation modelling. The obtained …

The motivational characteristics of psychotherapy inpatients should be of crucial importance
for treatment effectiveness. In the present study on 219 patients from two psychosomatic …

In this study, the psychometric properties of a clinician's observation version of Motivation for
Treatment (MfT-O) were assessed and compared with the patient's version (MfT). The …

This thesis contains a report on the development and psychometric evaluation of two
measurement instruments for the field of forensic psychiatric outpatient treatment: The …

Patients' motivational characteristics are of crucial importance for the effectiveness of
inpatient psychotherapy. In the present study of 250 patients from a German psychotherapy …