Environmental interventions and therapeutic outcome.
An eveluation study to determine whether intensive environmental interventions for individual patients help their psychotherapeutic progress was conducted at a community mental health center serving a multi-ethnic, inner-city catchment area with multiple social stressors. Using the Kiresuk-Sherman goal attainment scaling method for therapeutic and environmental goals, researchers analyzed outcome levels of a random sample of 150 patients. Ninety-two of those patients received both psychotherapeutic and environmental interventions, 37 received only psychotherapy, and 21 received only environmental interventions. Evaluation indicated that environmental goal attainment effectively predicted therapeutic outcome among high-, moderate-, and low-success groups.
D003155:Community Mental Health Centers; D005006:Ethnicity; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005431:Florida; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D012960:Socioenvironmental Therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D014505:Urban Population