BACKGROUND: Although psychotherapies are effective in the treatment of adult depression
it is not clear how this treatment effect is related to amount, frequency and intensity of …

This article reviews the efficacy of short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) in
depression compared to cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or behavioral therapy (BT). In …

Abstract define major dimensions that affect therapeutic outcome and on which therapists
differ/identify some of the major conceptual and methodological issues that affect the …

This study examined rates of improvement in psychotherapy as a function of the number of
sessions attended. The clients (N= 1,868; 73.1% female; 92.4% White; average age= 40) …

The authors attempted to replicate and extend DM Kivlighan and P. Shaughnessy's (2000)
findings of (a) 3 distinctive patterns of alliance development across sessions and (b) a …

Criteria for reliable and clinically significant improvement were applied to standard and
individually tailored outcome measures data from 212 depressed clients who had been …

Signs (eg, words, gestures, tokens, pictures) point to something besides themselves and are
observable. Using signs, events can reproduce themselves (in part) across time and space …

Clients' evaluations of their sessions were prominent in factor-based indexes of session
impact derived from the Session Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) and the Session Impacts …

Objectives. We used a new instrument, the Agnew Relationship Measure (ARM), to examine
the alliance's dimensionality and to construct scales for use in future studies. Design. We …

Generations of clinicians have valued Principles of Psychotherapy for its breadth of
coverage and accessibility and the author's ability to gather many elements into a unified …