The maintenance of psychotherapy skill acquisition: a two-year follow-up.
A two-year follow-up study investigated changes in interview behaviour of 11 therapists who had previously been trained in the conversational model of psychotherapy by a combined videotaped microteaching and supervision package. Results generally showed the acquired skills had been well maintained. However, there was a large increase in the giving of information and explanation, a behaviour explicitly discouraged within the conversational model. In addition, the response to verbal cues, a positive model behaviour, decreased over the follow-up period.
Moss
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Hester Adrian Research Centre, The University, Manchester.
Margison
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Godbert
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D003479:Curriculum; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*