Sexual orientation differences in treatment expectation, alliance, and outcome among patients at risk for suicide in a public psychiatric hospital.
Martin PlöderlSabine KunrathRobert J CramerJen WangLarissa HauerClemens FartacekPublished in: BMC psychiatry (2017)
These unexpected but positive findings may be due to common factors of therapy compensating for SM-specific competencies. It may also be due to actual presence of SM competencies - though unmeasured - in the department. Replication in other treatment settings and assessment of SM-specific competencies are needed, especially in the field of suicide prevention, before these findings can be generalized.