The efficacy of personal construct therapy: a comprehensive review.
Prior narrative and quantitative reviews have suggested that personal construct therapy (PCT) is an efficacious and viable form of treatment. However, these reviews failed to include all published, controlled PCT outcome studies and did not account for all measures of outcome. The present quantitative review, therefore, offers a comprehensive integration of the 22 published studies that compare PCT to a control group, examining its overall efficacy at posttest and follow-up as well as its effects for different types of outcome measures. Overall, the efficacy of PCT was found to be somewhat weaker than that reported in previous reviews. It was also found that traditional self-report and behavioral observation measures tended to yield larger effects compared to measures that focused on personal meanings and scored content supplied by the client.
Holland
Jason M
JM
University of Memphis, Menphis, TN 38152, USA. jmhollnd@memphis.edu
Neimeyer
Robert A
RA
Currier
Joseph M
JM
Berman
Jeffrey S
JS
D015706:Bibliometrics; D018849:Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D016896:Treatment Outcome