Influence of life events on outcome in psychotherapy.
J Nerv Ment Dis
; 172(8): 468-74, 1984 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-6747617
ABSTRACT
The life events occurring to 64 outpatients participating in a psychotherapy outcome study were assessed for the 6 months before intake, during therapy itself, and during a follow-up period that averaged 7.2 months. Events were identified using a combined checklist and interview methodology. The impact of events was assessed by examining their predictive validity above and beyond that attributable to a set of demographic and clinical variables (sex, age, socioeconomic status, chronicity, and history of prior treatment). The major findings were that a) life events did have a significant influence, but only at intake and termination and not at follow-up; b) "negative" events were more useful than the total number of events in predicting status; and c) when life events did have predictive power, the average increase in explained variance attributable to events was 13.4 per cent.
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Assunto principal:
Avaliação de Processos e Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde
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Psicoterapia
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Acontecimentos que Mudam a Vida
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Transtornos Mentais
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1984
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Article