Year: 2012
Type: article
Study designs: Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial
Abstract: Despite decades of research, the key components of effective psychotherapy continue to be debated. Evidence-based practice has gained prominence and there is increasing demand from managed care and other payees that specific behavioral health problems be treated with psychotherapy interventions or techniques whose efficacy is supported by research. However, research conducted over the past decade suggests that no one counseling model or intervention reliably produces superior results and that there exists common or contextual features of all counseling that are most predictive of therapeutic outcome. This study explored whether routinely administered limited participant feedback provided to therapists at an Army Substance Abuse Outpatient Treatment Program improved treatment outcomes for participants who provided feedback on their functioning at weekly intervals using the 4-item Outcome Rating Scale (ORS). Subjects were 300 active-duty male and female soldiers randomized into a feedback group (N = 150) and a control group (N = 150). Eighteen Department of the Army civilian therapists participated by providing group psychotherapy to the participants.
Author: Donald L. Schuman
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2521487022