Wästlund, Malin Salvesen, Katinka Thorne Stige, Signe Hjelen
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Background: Trauma-related symptoms are common and there is a need for treatment interventions targeting underlying core vulnerabilities regardless of the client's diagnosis. Mindfulness and Compassion interventions have shown promising results in trauma treatment. However, little is known of how clients experience such interventions. Objective: Th...
Baier, Allison L Feeny, Norah C Coyne, Alice E Zoellner, Lori A
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Changes in trauma-related beliefs and therapeutic alliance have been found to temporally precede symptom reduction; however, it is likely these processes do not act in isolation but rather in interactive ways. The present study examined the temporal relationships between negative posttraumatic cognitions (PTCI) and therapeutic alliance (WAI) in 142...
McEvoy, Peter M Bendlin, Martyna Johnson, Andrew R Kazantzis, Nikolaos Campbell, Bruce N C Bank, Samantha R Egan, Sarah J
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Few studies have investigated the role of generic relational factors, such as group cohesion and working alliance, in group cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for social anxiety disorder (SAD). The aim of this study was to examine the temporal associations among working alliance, group cohesion, and an index of a CBT-specific factor, homework engage...
Moshe-Cohen, Rotem Kivity, Yogev Huppert, Jonathan D Barlow, David H Gorman, Jack M Shear, Katherine Woods, Scott W
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Objective: The therapeutic alliance is related to treatment outcome but less is known about the agreement on alliance between patients and therapists and its relationship to outcomes. We examined the association of patient-therapist congruence of alliance perceptions, early and late in cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder in relation to ...
Baur, Anaïs Trösken, Anne Renneberg, Babette
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This study examined the attainment of individual treatment goals as an approach to measure treatment outcomes retrospectively in comparison to standardized self-report measures. In total, 189 outpatients defined 1-3 treatment goals (N = 455) using the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) at the beginning of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and indicated...
Sorsdahl, K Van Der Westhuizen, C Hornsby, N Jacobs, Y Poole, M Neuman, M Weiss, H A Myers, B
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Brief interventions could reduce adolescents' risk of depression and alcohol-related harms, but evidence of their feasibility and acceptability for low-and middle-income countries is lacking. To address this gap, we conducted a feasibility trial of the ASPIRE intervention, a four-session multi-component counselling intervention for South African ad...
Sauer-Zavala, Shannon Southward, Matthew W Terrill, Doug R Semcho, Stephen A Stumpp, Nicole E
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Objective: This study explores whether early change on a putative mechanism maintaining symptoms can serve as a proximal indicator of response to prompt discontinuation. Method: Patients (N = 70; Mage = 33.74, 67% female, 74% white) with heterogeneous anxiety and depressive disorders completed a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMAR...
Barr, Brogan L McIntosh, Virginia V W Britt, Eileen F Jordan, Jennifer Carter, Janet D
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This study examines childhood and clinical factors theorized to impact therapeutic alliance development over the course of psychotherapy. Raters assessed the therapeutic alliance of 212 client-therapist dyads, participating in two randomized controlled trials of schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for binge eating or major depression, ...
Solstad, Stig Magne Cooper, Mick Sundet, Rolf Moltu, Christian
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Objective: There is a growing interest in idiographic patient-reported outcome measures (I-PROMs) for routine outcome monitoring (ROM) and clinical feedback (CF) in psychotherapy, but to our knowledge, no systematic reviews of the empirical literature. Method: We conducted a systematic literature search for empirical papers investigating effects an...
Hildebrand-Burke, Craig Davey, Christopher Gwini, StellaMay Catania, Lisa Kazantzis, Nikolaos
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Prior studies of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) have focused on the quantity and quality of clients' homework completion and only rarely have considered the role of therapist competence. The present study examined (a) therapist competence across the entire process of integrating homework into CBT, including the review, design, and planning of t...
