Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:802-808
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Prognostic correlates of psychotherapy in psychiatric outpatients
AK Shapiro, E Struening, E Shapiro and H Barten
The authors examined the follow-up data for 113 psychiatric outpatients who
had been treated for up to a year in an outpatient community mental health
center. Correlations between therapist and patient ratings of improvement
were generally low, and anlayses were done separately for therapist and
patient ratings. The strongest confirmed hypothesis was the relationship
between therapist and patient ratings of improvement and therapist and
patient evaluations of each other as likable, physically attractive, and
either a good patient for treatment or a competent therapist. The authors
discuss the advantages and disadvantages of multivariate statistics for the
analysis of psychotherapy data.
