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The effectiveness of psychotherapy.

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Client engagement in psychotherapeutic treatment and associations with client characteristics, therapist characteristics, and treatment factors.

TL;DR: The findings of associations between client characteristics and engagement variables were equivocal, although clients' capacities to address their problems tended to be positively associated with engagement.
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Validation of a behavioral health treatment outcome and assessment tool designed for naturalistic settings: The Treatment Outcome Package.

TL;DR: A number of studies that evaluate the initial psychometrics of the items that comprise the mental health symptom and functional modules of the TOP conclude that the TOP has an excellent factor structure, good test-retest reliability, promising initial convergent and discriminant validity, and measures the full range of pathology on each scale.
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Identifying Empirically Supported Treatments What If We Didn't?

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Division 12 Task Force's selection of criteria, particularly as modified by D. L. Chambless and S. Hollon (1998), was a reasonable response to these pressures.
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Client participation and outcomes of intensive family preservation services

TL;DR: This paper examined whether and how variations in client participation affect outcomes of intensive family preservation services in child welfare and found that greater collaboration is related to better compliance, which predicts significant reductions in the likelihood of subsequent reports of child maltreatment and out-of-home placements.
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Effectiveness of psychological interventions for child maltreatment: a meta-analysis

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis tested the effectiveness of psychological treatments for child maltreatment using weighted least squares methods (e.g., L. V. Hedges and I. Olkin, 1985).