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Consumers' perspectives on helpful and hindering factors in mental health treatment
Author(s) -
Glass Carol R.,
Arnkoff Diane B.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(200011)56:11<1467::aid-jclp9>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - psychology , psychotherapist , mental health , session (web analytics) , context (archaeology) , psychological intervention , perception , psychiatry , clinical psychology , paleontology , neuroscience , biology , world wide web , computer science
We summarize the four papers in this issue by consumers evaluating their mental health treatment, focusing on aspects of their treatment that they collectively found helpful and hindering. These factors include the context of treatment, the therapy relationship, interventions used and issues addressed, helpful experiences outside the mental health system, and hindering views of mental illness and treatment. We then present comments by two clients in outpatient therapy on the same topic. Research on clients' perceptions of their outpatient psychotherapy is discussed in reference to these six consumer perspectives, and future directions for therapists and researchers are suggested. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 56: 1467–1480, 2000.