Editorial: Unsuccessful Psychotherapies: When and How Do Treatments Fail?

Frontiers in Psychology

article

Osmano Oasi¹  Andrzej Werbart² 

[1] Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart;Department of Psychology, Stockholm University

关键词: unsuccessful psychotherapies;    impasse;    negative effects;    dropout;    variables implicated;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.578997

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

As humans, but also as researchers and clinicians, we can learn a lot from our failures. The issueof failures in psychotherapeutic treatments is extremely important, as from them we can inferthe signs that precede them, and the strategies to deal with them. In psychotherapy we are alsoaware of the important fact that the amount of unwanted effects is very similar to fields suchas pharmacotherapy, and the number of patients reporting unwanted effects of psychotherapyis between 3 and 15% of cases (Berk and Parker, 2009). In 2012, a meta-analytic study by Swiftand Greenberg (2012) suggested that approximately one in every five clients still chooses to endtreatment prior to its completion. Similarly, Lambert (2013) has demonstrated that 5 to 10% ofpatients deteriorate in therapy, and 35 to 40% of participants in clinical trials do not improve. ThisResearch Topic asks how we can address this situation.

【 授权许可】

CC BY