Dependency of patients, psychotherapists' responses, and aspects of psychotherapy.

TL;DR: A survey of psychotherapy research findings is digested into 6 broad conclusions, and implications for practice and research are drawn from them as mentioned in this paper, which are: (a) psychotherapy causes clients to become better or worse adjusted than controls, (b) Control Ss improve with time as a result of informal therapeutic encounters, (c) Therapeutic progress varies with therapist warmth, empathy, adjustment, and experience, client-centered therapy is the only interview-oriented method that has been validated by research, (e) traditional therapies are seriously limited in effectiveness and are relevant for a small

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Journal ArticleDOI

Some implications of psychotherapy research for therapeutic practice.

Allen E. Bergin

- 01 Aug 1966 -

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

TL;DR: A survey of psychotherapy research findings is digested into 6 broad conclusions, and implications for practice and research are drawn from them.

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Book

The Dependent Patient: A Practitioner's Guide

Robert F. Bornstein

TL;DR: This book will be a valuable resource for any practitioner who works in an inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, or day treatment/partial hospitalization setting, regardless of the practitioner's background and level of training.

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