What the patient wants: Addressing patients' treatment targets in an integrative group psychotherapy programme.

Simon M RiceAnthony S JoyceRainer WeberJohannes C EhrenthalJohn S Ogrodniczuk

Published in: Psychology and psychotherapy (2018)

This study found that patients attending an integrative group treatment programme for personality dysfunction experienced significant improvement in severity of distress related to individual treatment objectives. Improvement in severity of distress related to individual treatment objectives was uniquely associated with patients' experience of an engaged, collaborative working atmosphere. Improvement in individual target objective severity was associated with patients' ratings of overall life satisfaction, rated an average of 9 months following termination, after controlling for change in general symptom severity.

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