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Long‐Term Prognosis of Behavior Therapy in Practice
Author(s) -
Yamagami Toshiko,
Morinaga Yasunori,
Okuma Hiroko,
Kono Ryosuke,
Kosai Hiroshi,
Hikita Kotaro,
Hayashida Masato
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1980.tb02452.x
Subject(s) - term (time) , psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , intensive care medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
A prognosis study was carried out on 30 cases of patients treated with behavior therapy. The treatments, which took more than three years before the study, averaged four years and eight months. The results are as follows: (1) The improvement achieved by therapy was maintained or further improved in 29 cases during the post‐therapeutic period of more than three years. (2) The prognosis largely depended on the grade of improvement at the end of therapy. A complete disappearance of symptoms at the end of therapy did not necessarily mean that it was a fair prognosis. (3) There was no relation between the prognosis and the length of history of illness or the situation of therapy terminated. (4) The impression is that long‐term prognoses are different depending on the main symptoms.