Empirically and clinically useful decision making in psychotherapy: Differential predictions with treatment response models

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-141

  Lutz, Wolfgang ^a   Saunders, Stephen M ^b   Leon, Scott C ^c   Martinovich, Zoran ^d   Kosfelder, Joachim ^e   Schulte, Dietmar ^e   Grawe, Klaus ^a   Tholen, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive decision making; Differential predictions; Expected treatment response; Outcomes management; Patient focused research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746271566     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.18.2.133     Document Type: Article

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