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    J Psychother Pract Res. 2001 Summer;10(3):145-54.

    Early improvement during manual-guided cognitive and dynamic psychotherapies predicts 16-week remission status.

    Crits-Christoph P, Connolly MB, Gallop R, Barber JP, Tu X, Gladis M, Siqueland L.

    Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

    This study examined the extent to which improvement from baseline to weeks 2, 3, and 4 on the Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory predict week 16 clinical remission for patients with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and/or obsessive-compulsive or avoidant personality disorders who were receiving manual-based psychotherapies. Logistic regression and receiver-operator characteristic analyses revealed relatively accurate identification of remitters and nonremitters based on improvement from baseline to sessions 2 to 4 in both original and cross-validation samples. Predictive success did not vary as a function of diagnosis, treatment type (cognitive or dynamic), or treatment status (short-term or long-term). The clinical implications of the results are discussed.

    PMID: 11402077 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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