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Efficacy of Brief Telephone Psychotherapy with Callers to a Suicide Hotline
Author(s) -
Rhee Wayne K.,
Merbaum Michael,
Strube Michael J.,
Self Susan M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1521/suli.2005.35.3.317
Subject(s) - hotline , suicide prevention , medicine , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , telephone survey , brief psychotherapy , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , medical emergency , psychology , telecommunications , marketing , computer science , business
The efficacy of two types of theapy conducted exclusively over the telephone was studied. Clients ( N = 55) were recruited from a pool of callers to a suicide hotline and were randomly assigned to a waiting list control (WC) or Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) or Common Factors Therapy (CFT). It was hypothesized that improvements would be significantly higher in the two therapy conditions compared to the waitlist control and SFBT would be significantly more efficacious than CFT. Results confirmed that improvement was significantly higher in the two treatment conditions compared to the waitlist control, but no difference in improvement was found between SFBT and CFT. The implications of these findings for suicide hotlines are discussed.