Predictors of differential response to cognitive, experiential, and self-directed psychotherapeutic procedures

Autor: Larry E. Beutler, William Merry, Keith E. Meredith, Roger J. Daldrup, John R. Bergan, David Engle, David C. Mohr
Rok vydání: 1991
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Zdroj: Scopus-Elsevier
CIÊNCIAVITAE
ISSN: 1939-2117
0022-006X
DOI: 10.1037/0022-006x.59.2.333
Popis: Group cognitive therapy (CT), focused expressive psychotherapy (FEP; a form of group experiential psychotherapy), and supportive, self-directed therapy (S/SD) were compared among 63 patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Variation among patients' coping styles (externalization) and defensiveness (resistance potential) was used in a prospective test of hypothesized differential treatment-patient interactions. Results suggest that patient characteristics can be used differentially to assign psychotherapy types. Externalizing depressed patients improved more than nonexternalizing depressed patients in CT, whereas nonexternalizing (internalizing) patients improved most in S/SD. Conversely, high defensive (resistant) patients improved more in S/SD than in either FEP or CT, whereas low defensive patients improved more in CT than in S/SD.
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