TY - JOUR
T1 - Early dropouts from psychotherapy
AU - Mohl, P.
AU - Martinez, D.
AU - Ticknor, C.
AU - Huang, M.
AU - Cordell, L.
PY - 1991/8
Y1 - 1991/8
N2 - Ninety-six patients requesting psychotherapy were studied prospectively at the time of screening interview by four senior psychiatrists using a variation on Luborsky’s Helping Alliance questionnaire and the Osgood Semantic Differential. Significant differences were found at the time of screening between early dropouts and continuers, among screeners’ rate of early dropouts, and among patients’ perceptions of screeners. The screener with a high early dropout rate was seen as being more passive and less potent, and offering less new understanding than other screeners. Patients who dropped out early experienced a less strong helping alliance, felt they gained less new understanding, liked the clinician less well, felt less well liked and less respected, and saw the interviewer as more passive and psychotherapy as less potent than did continuers.
AB - Ninety-six patients requesting psychotherapy were studied prospectively at the time of screening interview by four senior psychiatrists using a variation on Luborsky’s Helping Alliance questionnaire and the Osgood Semantic Differential. Significant differences were found at the time of screening between early dropouts and continuers, among screeners’ rate of early dropouts, and among patients’ perceptions of screeners. The screener with a high early dropout rate was seen as being more passive and less potent, and offering less new understanding than other screeners. Patients who dropped out early experienced a less strong helping alliance, felt they gained less new understanding, liked the clinician less well, felt less well liked and less respected, and saw the interviewer as more passive and psychotherapy as less potent than did continuers.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005053-199108000-00005
DO - 10.1097/00005053-199108000-00005
M3 - Article
C2 - 1856710
AN - SCOPUS:0025916902
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 179
SP - 478
EP - 481
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 8
ER -