Jacques P Barber

..Secondary analyses addressing alternative explanations (such as the role of either therapeutic alliance or general therapeutic skills) did not change the results...

..They conclude that supportive techniques are often used in different forms of psychotherapy or counseling...

..In CT, higher levels of alliance were associated with decreased retention...

..The results are discussed in terms of the causal role of the alliance in therapeutic outcome...

..The WOR appears to be a sensitive measure of change during CT that covaries with change in depression. It remains to be tested whether change on the WOR is specific to CT...

..SE therapists used more expressive (interpretative) techniques than did either CT therapists or IDC counselors, and they used more supportive techniques than did IDC counselors...

..55 to 0.89 and internal consistency coefficients ranged from 0.43 to 0.95. Ratings indicated that IDC counselors used IDC techniques more frequently and competently than did therapists from other modalities...

..Similar patterns of results were found using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Beck Depression Inventory. A matching factor formula of patients to CT vs. IPT is presented...

..Ratings of helpfulness were significantly related to retention and alliance but were largely unrelated to changes in drug use or psychiatric outcomes...

..Changes in self-understanding and compensatory skills across treatment were predictive of follow-up symptom course. Changes in self-understanding demonstrated specificity of change to dynamic psychotherapy...

..This study examined the relationship between cocaine craving, psychosocial treatment, and cocaine use in the ensuing week...

..Thus, treatments were easily discriminable by the independent judges...

..54 vs. .01-.37). Receiver operating curve analysis indicated that the optimal operating point for AAL as an indicator of ADIS agoraphobia diagnosis was 1.61, which yielded sensitivity of .87 and specificity of .73...

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..In addition, a measure of beliefs about addiction developed to test mediation of outcome of cognitive therapy was found to correlate moderately with drug use outcomes in both cognitive therapy and individual drug counseling...

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..Because alliance is a robust predictor of outcome, treatment preferences may need to be carefully considered in randomized controlled trial settings...

..Furthermore, change in ASQ correlated with change in depression. There was some evidence suggesting that ASQ at termination predicted level of depression at follow-up...

..The MASC is a clinically useful measure to discriminate between anxious and depressed pediatric patients. Limitations due to the highly selective sample are noted...

..No data underlie this recommendation. This exploratory study assessed the moderating effect of personality disorder on psychodynamic and non-psychodynamic psychotherapy outcome...

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..Given the novelty of TMS, we sought to assess whether patient acceptability would be a barrier to enrolling pregnant women in TMS studies...

..The authors conducted a meta-analytic review of adherence-outcome and competence-outcome findings, and examined plausible moderators of these relations...

..Finally, patients preferring psychotherapy endorsed childhood and complex causes more than those preferring medication, but the groups did not differ in other reasons endorsed. Implications of findings are discussed...

..Patients with higher psychiatric severity were more at risk for continuing to use drugs after dropout...

..The article concludes with a summary of steps and considerations in decision-making with regard to treatment integrity...

..Finally, we present recommendations for the use of therapeutic alliance measurement in residency training for competency assessment purposes, and for pedagogical approaches for improving residents' therapeutic alliance building skills...

..Lastly, we discuss several potential impediments to large scale competence assessment and education, such as the heterogeneity of therapeutic orientations and what could be termed a lack of transparency in clinical training...

..MULTI subscale levels successfully predicted sessions of different psychotherapy orientations. The MULTI seems to be a promising tool to investigate the interventions that occur in different psychotherapies...

..Furthermore, MDD patients with depressive personality disorder reported more interpersonal distress than MDD-only patients report and were more likely to have interpersonal problems related to dominance and control than submissiveness...

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..Personality features such as dismissing attachment style and being overly nurturant or exploitable were predictive of early growth in alliance...

..This article will show the interpersonal processes that are activated when a patient is treated with time-limited, manualized psychotherapy...

..Time-limited manualized dynamic psychotherapy was compared with community-delivered psychodynamic therapy for outpatients with personality disorders...

..This work points to potentially important areas to target in treatment development for these personality disorders...

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..These data may have important implications for both treatment planning and the types of outcomes considered in clinical practice and research...

..Findings are discussed in relation to the reciprocal overprotectiveness between the surviving parents and their children in the context of intergenerational communication of trauma...

..Surgical functional outcome itself was a poor predictor of long-term adjustment. The results indicate that it may be beneficial to take personality factors into account in preoperative assessment...

..The results indicate that individuals who engaged in psychotherapy improved their capacity to handle crucial aspects of life and reduced their symptomatic suffering...

..Awareness of the frequent comorbidity of PD with Axis I disorders seems crucial in developing future treatment plans with an emphasis on psychosocial rehabilitation, vocational training and social support...