Clinician interventions and participant characteristics that foster adaptive patient expectations for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic change

Psychotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 557-569

  Constantino, Michael J ^a   Ametrano, Rebecca M ^a   Greenberg, Roger P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Common factors; Patient outcome expectations; Patient treatment expectations; Practice review; Psychotherapeutic change; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPECTATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874493112     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: 19391536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029440     Document Type: Article

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