title: [Influence of psychotherapy motivation on the course of psychotherapy].
abstract: The motivational characteristics of psychotherapy inpatients should be of crucial importance for treatment effectiveness. In the present study on 219 patients from two psychosomatic-psychotherapeutic treatment centers, four dimensions of motivation for psychotherapy (illness experience; lay etiology; treatment expectations; openness to psychotherapy) were assessed using the Questionnaire for the Measurement of Psychotherapy Motivation (Fragebogen zur Messung der Psychotherapiemotivation; FMP) and related to pre-post changes in symptomatology. In these analyses, psychological symptoms (SCL-90-R) as well as interpersonal problems (IIP) were considered as indicators of treatment effects. The results support the expectation that (a) a psychosocial causal attribution of illness symptoms and (b) a marked general openness to psychotherapy at the pretreatment interview predict more positive treatment outcomes. Implications of the results for the indication of pretreatment interventions are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Rostock.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Klauer
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Janssen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tetzlaff
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data