In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics data are presented by S. Priebe and collaborators (London, UK) that point to the importance of the therapeutic relationship in psychotic disorders. Numerous studies have shown that the quality of the therapeutic relationship between the patient and the clinician is an important predictor of the outcome of […]
‘Difficult’ patient-clinician encounters have a negative impact on patients’ health outcomes in the short-term, according to a new study by Sheri Hinchey from the Tripler Army Medical Centre in Honolulu and Jeffrey Jackson from the Zablocki VA Medical Centre in Milwaukee. Hinchey and Jackson’s work has just been published online in the Journal of General […]
This study published in the last 2010 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics suggests that therapist and patient ratings of therapeutic alliance predict therapeutic progress. This relation may be moderated by client characteristics, including ‘personality pathology comorbidity’ (i.e., the presence of multiple diagnoses), marital status, occupational status, and the atypical character of the major depressive episode.
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