title: Predicting psychotherapy duration from therapists' sex, professional affiliation, democratic values, and community mental health ideology.
abstract: Analyzed therapists' scores on the Community Mental Health Ideology (CMHI) and Democratic values scales and their sex and professional affiliation to predict the number of psychotherapy visits of 166 outpatients. A step-wise multiple regression indicated that all variables taken together accounted for 3% of the variance in treatment duration. A four-way analysis of variance revealed only a significant main effect for the CMHI scale. Thus, low-scoring CMHI therapists had significantly more therapy sessions with their clients than high-scoring CMHI therapists. The latter may emphasize briefer treatment approaches that stress outside resources and primary prevention.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012945:Social Values