title: Failure in psychotherapy: an introduction.
abstract: This article introduces an issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology:In Session devoted to treatment failures in psychotherapy. In contrast to recent attention from the research perspective and cognitive-behavioral orientation, this issue focuses on clinical material from multiple theoretical perspectives. This article provides an overview of some of the empirical and definitional issues on treatment failure and then outlines the five subsequent articles, each of which offers an interesting case illustration. The article concludes with several transtheoretical recommendations for reducing the incidence of therapeutic failures.
authors.affiliation: Deptartment of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems, 3210 Stone Building, P.O. Box 3064453, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4453, USA. glampropoulos@fsu.edu
authors.forename: Georgios K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Lampropoulos
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D017211:Treatment Failure