title: Influence of supervision, therapist's competence, and patient's ego level on the effects of time-limited psychotherapy.
abstract: The effects of time-limited psychotherapy, of the Mann (1973) type, were followed-up in a patient sample during 22 months. The effect ratings were highly reliable and showed a strikingly large variation. A path analysis was performed on the data and a causal model inferred that accounts for over 50% of the effect variation. The effect remained stable over time and was primarily influenced (positively) by patient's ego level and (negatively) by therapist's competence. Supervision had, if anything, a negative influence.
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000193:education; D013997:Time Factors