Outcomes of beginning trainee therapists in an outpatient community clinic

Autor: William B. Stiles, Joel Vos, Biljana van Rijn, Evi Chryssafidou
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 22:471-479
ISSN: 1746-1405
1473-3145
DOI: 10.1002/capr.12466
Popis: Aims This study describes the outcomes of clients treated by therapists in their first placement who were undergoing training in a range of humanistic and other relational approaches: Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, Integrative, Humanistic, Person Centred and Counselling Psychology. Method All clients seen by 179 trainee therapists over a 2-year period in a community clinic were asked to complete standard outcome measures including the General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-10 (CORE-10) and Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) before each session. Findings Clients (N = 558) showed large, statistically significant improvement on all of these outcome measures, indicating substantial improvement in symptoms of depression, anxiety, general symptom intensity and post-traumatic stress, respectively (all p
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