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Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Some people expect cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to be more prescriptive than it is, and therapists to be more controlling than they really are. That’s according to a series of interviews with 18 clients who undertook 8 sessions (14 hours) of CBT to help with their diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder.

Henny Westra and colleagues selected for interview nine clients whose therapy had ended positively and nine whose therapy had ended poorly. Four of the clients were male. There were four CBT therapists – two men and two women. One was PhD qualified, two were senior clinical psychology grad students, one was junior.

The vast majority of client comments (84 per cent) relating to expectations were that the CBT was not what they’d anticipated. Clients whose outcome was good tended to say they’d been pleasantly surprised – the therapist was collaborative and non-judgmental, and they’d had the opportunity to direct the therapy and choose what to talk about. Of the therapeutic process, the positive outcome clients felt, to their surprise, that they could trust the process, felt comfortable, and that they learned more than they expected. Both good and poor outcome clients worked harder in therapy than they anticipated.  

Read in Full:  http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-clients-think-cbt-will-be-like-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BpsResearchDigest+(BPS+Research+Digest)



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