Department of Educational, School, & Counseling Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0017, USA.
Psychotherapy (Chic). 2010 Dec;47(4):616-30. doi: 10.1037/a0021182.
Using outcome data to monitor the progress of treatment and the therapeutic alliance, also known as "client feedback" or "patient-focused research," has yielded impressive results in individual psychotherapy. Client feedback has demonstrated reductions in premature terminations and improved psychotherapy outcomes. However, little research has been conducted using this paradigm with couples receiving therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the effectiveness of client feedback would extend to couple therapy. Results from a randomized couple clinical trial conducted in a naturalistic setting indicated that couples in a client feedback condition demonstrated statistically significantly more improvement compared with couples receiving treatment as usual and that improvement occurred more rapidly. Also, 4 times as many couples in the feedback condition reported clinically significant change by the end of treatment.
利用结果数据来监测治疗进展和治疗联盟,也称为“客户反馈”或“以患者为中心的研究”,在个体心理治疗中取得了令人瞩目的成果。客户反馈已证明可以减少过早终止治疗和改善心理治疗效果。然而,使用这种模式对接受治疗的夫妇进行的研究很少。这项研究的目的是调查客户反馈的有效性是否会扩展到夫妻治疗。在自然环境中进行的一项随机夫妻临床试验的结果表明,与接受常规治疗的夫妇相比,客户反馈条件下的夫妇在统计学上表现出明显更大的改善,而且改善速度更快。此外,在反馈条件下,4 倍的夫妇在治疗结束时报告了临床显著变化。