title: Therapists' recall of early sudden gains in routine clinical practice.
abstract: This study followed up one by Stiles et al. (2003), which identified sudden gains -- large reductions from one session to the next on a short form of clinical outcomes in routine evaluation outcome measure (CORE-SF) -- by some clients in routine clinical practice. We interviewed the therapists who had treated sudden gain and non-sudden gain clients. Results showed that therapists could retrospectively identify which clients had or had not experienced sudden CORE-SF gains at substantially better than chance rates, although they identified only about half of the clients who had experienced such gains.
authors.affiliation: South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust, UK.
authors.forename: Lene
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Leach
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lucock
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Stiles
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iveson
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barkham
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies