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Personal questionnaire changes in prescriptive vs. exploratory psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Barkham Michael,
Shapiro David A.,
FirthCozens Jenny
Publication year - 1989
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.2044-8260.1989.tb00820.x
Subject(s) - psychology , exploratory research , anxiety , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , depression (economics) , cognition , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology , economics , macroeconomics
Personal Questionnaire (PQ) data were collected within a larger study (the Sheffield Psychotherapy Project) in which 40 professional and managerial workers with depression and/or anxiety received eight sessions of prescriptive (cognitive‐behavioural) and eight sessions of exploratory (relationship‐orientated) therapy in a cross‐over design with each client seeing the same therapist throughout. Concurrent validity of PQ ratings with two established outcome measures are presented and suggest differing patterns of association with different outcome measures. Results based on a group comparison design as well as differential trend analyses, in which each case is analysed as a single case within a group design, are presented and suggest a greater differential response to treatments when the treatment order is prescriptive followed by exploratory therapy. Findings are presented relating clients' responses to treatment with the individual characteristic of clients' age. Implications for clinical research and practice are discussed.