Unique and Common Mechanisms of Change across Cognitive and Dynamic Psychotherapies

Autor/inn/en	Gibbons, Mary Beth Connolly; Crits-Christoph, Paul; Barber, Jacques P.; Stirman, Shannon Wiltsey; Gallop, Robert; Goldstein, Lizabeth A.; Temes, Christina M.; Ring-Kurtz, Sarah
Titel	Unique and Common Mechanisms of Change across Cognitive and Dynamic Psychotherapies
Quelle	In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77 (2009) 5, S.801-813 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-006X
DOI	10.1037/a0016596
Schlagwörter	Personality Problems; Patients; Psychotherapy; Anxiety; Outcomes of Treatment; Databases; Depression (Psychology); Adolescents; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Metacognition; Measures (Individuals); Behavior Change; Cognitive Restructuring; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Patient; Psychotherapie; Angst; Datenbank; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Messdaten
Abstract	The goal of this article was to examine theoretically important mechanisms of change in psychotherapy outcome across different types of treatment. Specifically, the role of gains in self-understanding, acquisition of compensatory skills, and improvements in views of the self were examined. A pooled study database collected at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Psychotherapy Research, which includes studies conducted from 1995 to 2002 evaluating the efficacy of cognitive and psychodynamic therapies for a variety of disorders, was used. Patient samples included major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, borderline personality disorder, and adolescent anxiety disorders. A common assessment battery of mechanism and outcome measures was given at treatment intake, termination, and 6-month follow-up for all 184 patients. Improvements in self-understanding, compensatory skills, and views of the self were all associated with symptom change across the diverse psychotherapies. Changes in self-understanding and compensatory skills across treatment were predictive of follow-up symptom course. Changes in self-understanding demonstrated specificity of change to dynamic psychotherapy. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10