Follow-up findings for interpretive and supportive forms of psychotherapy and patient personality variables.
Follow-up findings at 6 and 12 months are reported for a clinical trial that investigated the efficacy of interpretive and supportive forms of short-term individual psychotherapy and the interaction of each form with the patient's quality of object relations (QOR) and psychological mindedness (PM). Patients in both forms maintained their posttherapy improvements at 6- and 12-month follow-up assessments. They did not differ significantly from each other. At 6 and 12 months, there was evidence for a direct relation between QOR and favorable outcome. At 12 months, there was also evidence for an interaction effect, which indicated a direct relation between QOR and favorable outcome for interpretive therapy and almost no relation for supportive therapy. Thus, QOR continued to be an important predictor of outcome at 6 and 12 months, with some evidence for persistence of an interaction effect. In contrast, no follow-up effects were found for PM.
Piper
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WE
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. piper@interchg.ubc.ca
McCallum
M
M
Joyce
A S
AS
Azim
H F
HF
Ogrodniczuk
J S
JS
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*