title: Whatever happened to intensive psychotherapy?
abstract: Of 163 residency programs responding to a survey about training requirements in long-term psychotherapy, more than 100 did not require that any patients be seen more than once a week. Among 41 psychotherapy protocols representing outcome-related research that were reported at an annual meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the studies employing more than once-a-week treatment for 6 or more months were rare. Intensive psychotherapy is clearly on the wane in training programs and in psychotherapy research paradigms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9070.
authors.forename: K Z
authors.initials: KZ
authors.lastname: Altshuler
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000639:trends; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000639:trends; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*