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Psychotherapy Research 6(4): 223-47, 1996
Clients' perspectives on the helpful aspects of treatment were examined using post-treatment data from the NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program. Averaged across treatments, perceptions that were coded as indicative of common aspects of the treatments, such as the helpfulness of the therapist, were reported most frequently. There were no group differences; thus, in the placebo plus clinical management group, responses were coded into common-factor categories no less often than in the other groups. However, cognitive-behaviour therapy clients and imipramine plus clinical management clients gave responses coded as reflecting aspects that were specific to the treatment they received significantly more often than did clients in the other conditions.
Psychotherapy Research 6(4): 249-62,1996
Clients’ perceptions of the problematic or hindering aspects of treatment in the NIMH Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program were investigated, from the perspective of factors hypothesized to be common across treatments and those hypothesized to be specific to one type of treatment. Overall, 36% of the 154 treatment completers indicated that something was problematic for them about their treatment or about their participation in the research. It was primarily clients in the imipramine plus clinical management and placebo plus clinical management conditions who gave responses categorized as specific to the treatment they had received, which for imipramine clients consisted primarily of complaints related to medication side effects. In addition, a small subset of pharmacotherapy clients indicated that they wanted psy