Flückiger, C., Wampold, B.E., Delgadillo, J. orcid.org/0000-0001-5349-230X et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Is there an evidence-based number of sessions in outpatient psychotherapy? – A comparison of naturalistic conditions across countries. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 89 (5). pp. 333-335. ISSN 0033-3190
Abstract
Deciding on the number of psychotherapy sessions to satisfactorily treat a patient is a vital clinical as well as economic issue in most mental health systems worldwide. The length of outpatient psychotherapy in naturalistic conditions ranges from a single session to hundreds of sessions [1]. In randomized clinical trials, the number of sessions is typically fixed to deliver manualized treatments and to control for dosage effects (e.g., in a 16-session format [2]). Using data from Routine Outcome Monitoring studies [3, 4], we investigated whether the treatments under naturalistic conditions were fixed to a particular number of sessions or not (H1), whether naturalistic conditions tended to include unusually long treatments (e.g., >100 sessions) (H2), and how the observed number of sessions was distributed across countries (H3).
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 19 May 2020 11:43 |
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2021 17:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | S. Karger AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1159/000507793 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160793 |
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