Reviewing 25 Years of Professional Practice: Homework Assignments and Length of Therapy

Autor: Luciano L'Abate, Bess L. L'abate, Eleonora Maino
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: The American Journal of Family Therapy. 33:19-31
ISSN: 1521-0383
0192-6187
DOI: 10.1080/01926180590889220
Popis: This exploratory review of 25 years of part-time professional practice with individuals, couples, and families, evaluated the number of face-to-face psychotherapy sessions with and without written homework assignments. Contrary to predictions from the literature, administration of a workbook lengthened significantly the number of face-to-face psychotherapy sessions for all groups. The exploratory nature of this review and its inability to deal with a host of uncontrolled variables made it impossible to deal with the issue of effectiveness. These results, nonetheless, raise questions about the claimed cost-effectiveness of written homework assignments. Future research will need to concentrate on variables that could not be controlled in this review.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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