This chapter sets out the current status of the evidence-base for the efficacy and
effectiveness of psychological therapies. First, methods for eliciting and synthesizing …

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment for anxiety and
depression. It is important to determine the positive and negative aspects of CBT from the …

Background In both routine practice contexts and research studies, evidence from
standardized self-report symptom measures, administered pre-and post-treatment, is …

Qualitative research methodologies can be used to generate insights and evidence around
core issues relating to policy and practice in psychotherapy and behavior change. A major …

In this chapter, I address the topic of tinnitus in the context of the patient's trajectory of care,
with special attention to psychological comorbidities. Although most patients will cope with …

Objective: This study scrutinizes the meaning of deterioration in psychotherapy beyond the
widely used statistical definition of reliable symptom increase pre-to-post treatment. Method …

In the present paper we examine four cases in which the assumption that “good outcome”
necessarily means “good therapy” did not hold. Cases were selected that reported good pre …

This qualitative study's objective was to understand how failure in psychotherapy develops
from depressed patients' perspective. Forty-seven patients were interviewed after brief …

This chapter reviews research on clients' forward-looking perspectives on psychotherapy
outcomes and/or their mechanisms, with such inquiry generally occurring before treatment …

Introduction There is a lack of qualitative research that retrospectively explores how patients
with major depressive disorder view their improvement in psychotherapy. Methods Fifteen …