title: Interpersonal Circumplex Profiles Of Persistent Depression: Goals, Self-Efficacy, Problems, And Effects Of Group Therapy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We assessed severely and persistently depressed patients' interpersonal self-efficacy, problems, and goals, plus changes in interpersonal functioning and depression during 20 weeks of group therapy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Outpatients (32 female, 26 male, mean age = 45 years) completed interpersonal circumplex measures of goals, efficacy, and problems before completing 20 weeks of manualized group therapy, during which we regularly assessed depression and interpersonal style.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to normative samples, patients lacked interpersonal agency, including less self-efficacy for expressive/assertive actions; stronger motives to avoid conflict, scorn, and humiliation; and more problems with being too submissive, inhibited, and accommodating. Behavioral Activation and especially Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy interventions produced improvements in depression and interpersonal agency, with increases in "agentic and communal" efficacy predicting subsequent decreases in depression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  While severely and persistently depressed patients were prone to express maladaptive interpersonal dispositions, over the course of group therapy, they showed increasingly agentic and beneficial patterns of cognitions, motives, and behaviors.
authors.affiliation: University of Idaho.
authors.forename: Kenneth D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Locke
authors.affiliation: Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University.
authors.forename: Liliane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sayegh
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia.
authors.forename: J Kim
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Penberthy
authors.affiliation: University of Mainz.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haentjens
authors.affiliation: Douglas Mental Health University Institute and McGill University.
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Turecki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: depression; goals; interpersonal circumplex; problems; self-efficacy; treatment outcome