title: Psychological mindedness as a predictor of psychotherapy outcome: a preliminary report.
abstract: This study investigated the properties of a new measure of psychological mindness (PM). A 45-item self-report questionnaire was administered to consecutive admissions to a large outpatient clinic that provides primarily psychodynamically oriented individual psychotherapy. The PM scores of a sample of 44 of these patients who attended a median of 15 sessions were correlated with several outcome measures obtained from retrospective chart reviews. These measures consisted of the number of sessions attended, discharge ratings, and change scores on a Global Assessment Scale (GAS) and on a symptom checklist. Coefficient alpha for the Psychological Mindedness (PM) Scale indicated high reliability. Total PM score correlated significantly with three of the outcome measures. Twenty of the 45-items were good predictors of one or more outcome measures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Conte
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Plutchik
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Picard
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Karasu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lotterman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D010556:Personality Tests; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012309:Risk-Taking