Objective: Independent evaluators (IE) are used widely in clinical trials to make unbiased determinations of treatment response. By virtue of being kept blind to treatment condition, however, IEs are also kept unaware of many pertinent clinical details that are relevant for decisions about clinical improvement. In this study, agreement among…

Objective: The goal was to understand both therapist and patient perspectives on alliance and session progress for women in treatment for gynecological cancer. We used a longitudinal version of the one-with-many design to partition variation in alliance and progress ratings into therapist, patient/dyad, and time-specific components. We also…

Four hundred thirty-two public sector therapists attended a workshop in contingency management (CM) and were interviewed monthly for the following 6 months to assess their adoption and initial implementation of CM to treat substance-abusing adolescent clients. Results showed that 58% (n = 131) of the practitioners with at least one…

Examines between- and within-programs variations in treatment obtained by 412 depressed patients in one of six different programs. Between-programs differences remained significant after controlling for severity of depressive symptoms and the sociodemographic characteristics of the patients, but there was little evidence of clinician bias. (JAC)

These findings, along with prior ones from the same investigation, suggest that outcome is affected by the attitudes and beliefs of therapists concerning prognosis for lower-class and severely disturbed clients: therapists who believe they can help such clients can often do so. (Author)

Offender status had a negative effect on dimensions involving acceptance of the client for therapy but little effect on assessment of personality variables. (Author)

Developed measure of accuracy of therapists' interpretations and examined relation of accuracy to outcome of dynamic psychotherapy. Assessed accuracy on therapists' interpretations from two early-in-treatment sessions of 43 patients. Results indicated that accuracy about main wishes and responses from others that were expressed in relationship…

Focuses on psychotherapy studies completed at Vanderbilt University which had their antecedents in research begun by Strupp in 1950s. Notes that Vanderbilt I focused on relative contribution of specific and nonspecific factors in therapy, while Vanderbilt II sought to study the effects of training in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy on process…

This study attempts to (1) assess the effects of therapist credibility and patient-therapist similarity on interpersonal persuasion; and (2) to further assess the relationship between patient attitude change and psychotherapy outcome. (HMV)

Questionnaires eliciting opinions concerning seven aspects of real or potential counselor responsibility in addiction treatment were given to ex-addict counselors, nonaddict counselors, program administrators, and clients in treatment. Ex-addict and non-addict counselors working in the same programs come to have a common view of the counseling…

Result of this study indicated psychologists' judgments of scientific merit were influenced by patient assignment and follow-up but not by therapists' experience. Judgments of clinical relevance were influenced by patient population, the findings' applicability, and nature of therapy. Psychologists were more critical of methodology of studies…

Evaluated generalizability of findings that male and female patients receive differential psychiatric treatment. Comparison of outpatients on demographic, clinical, and self-report measures of mood, symptoms, and interpersonal concerns revealed no sex differences. Results indicated that with samples of male and female patients, there were no…

Homework assignments have been studied extensively in psychotherapy research, but there is little data on the way in which homework is transferred to clinical practice. A survey was conducted of 827 practicing psychologists nationwide regarding their use and attitudes toward homework. Overall, 68% of the present sample indicated that they "often"…

Some research suggests that improvement in psychotherapy is related to the degree that a patient adopts his therapist's evaluative attitudes. This article was designed to pursue the possibility of predicting the outcomes of group psychotherapy using attitude theory. (Author)

Investigated the effects of therapists' and patients' religious affiliation on therapists' attraction to, prognostic expectations of, and diagnosis of the patients. Results yielded no differences in therapists' attraction to or diagnosis of the religious versus nonreligious patient. The religious patient was seen as requiring fewer therapy…