Therapist personality traits as predictors of psychological treatment outcomes

Autor:	Jaime Delgadillo, Pamela Myles-Hooton, Amanda Branson, Gillian E. Hardy, Stephen Kellett, Roz Shafran
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Adult Male 050103 clinical psychology Psychotherapist media_common.quotation_subject Anxiety behavioral disciplines and activities 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Psychotherapists Personality Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Big Five personality traits Psychological treatment media_common Depression 05 social sciences Professional-Patient Relations Middle Aged 030227 psychiatry Psychotherapy Clinical Psychology Treatment Outcome Female Psychology human activities
Zdroj:	Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. 30(7)
ISSN:	1468-4381 1050-3307
Popis:	Aim: To investigate if therapists’ personality influences their patients’ treatment outcomes.\ud \ud Methods: N = 4,052 patients were treated by 69 therapists, including 36 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) and 33 Cognitive Behavioural Therapists (CBTs). Therapists completed the NEO-PI-R personality inventory, they reported years of clinical experience, and expert assessors rated their clinical competence and reflective abilities. Their patients completed pre and post-treatment measures of depression (PHQ-9) and anxiety (GAD-7). Associations between therapist personality traits and patient treatment outcomes were examined using multilevel modelling, controlling for therapist demographics, clinical experience, technical competence and reflective ability.\ud \ud Results: Relative to other sources of variability, therapists accounted for 1% to 3% of overall variability in treatment outcomes. However, the magnitude of systematic heterogeneity in performance between therapists was around 6%, such that the best-performing therapists outperformed average therapists by a margin of moderate to large effects (g = .57 to 1.10). Clinical experience, technical competence and reflective ability were unrelated to treatment outcomes. Patients treated by PWPs with above-average agreeableness scores and CBTs with above-average openness to experience scores had poorer treatment outcomes. \ud \ud Conclusions: Therapist effects may be partly explained by the influence of their personality on their work with anxious and depressed patients.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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