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Expectancy and outcome in prescriptive vs. exploratory psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Morrison Leslie A.,
Shapiro David A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1987.tb00724.x
Subject(s) - expectancy theory , psychology , credibility , outcome (game theory) , exploratory research , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical economics , sociology , political science , anthropology , law
Client ratings of the credibility of prescriptive and exploratory therapies were compared, and correlated with clinical improvement. Both expectancies and outcomes favoured prescriptive therapy in the first, but not the second, period of a cross‐over design, and modest correlations were obtained between credibility and improvement. Regression analysis suggested that the impact of expectancy on outcome was secondary to the treatment effect rather than its cause.